Top 10 Tips for Hay Fever Sufferers

1.            Start antihistamines at least 2 weeks prior to the season start. The tree pollen season stated this week.

2.            Use your medication everyday even when you are not symptomatic. A combination of oral tablets, nasal sprays and eye drops works best

3.            Shower after periods outdoors to remove pollen from hair and clothes especially before bedtime.

4.            A saline nasal douche removes pollen from the nose and soothes the irritated linings.

5.            Changing your diet - some foods like pineapple, ginger, garlic and bright coloured food contain natural antihistamines and anti-inflammatory substances.  

6.            Keep windows closed especially in the bedroom at night.

7.            If your symptoms are severe ask your doctor about immunotherapy and a possible referral

8.            Do not use eye drops when wearing soft daytime contact lenses as these bind to the lens material causing further problems.

9.            Use wraparound sunglasses to protect the eyes from as much pollen as possible.

10.       Switch to iGO Overnight vision correction.  By wearing overnight contact lenses to correct your eyesight your eyes will be more comfortable during the day. And eye drops can be used to relieve any allergic symptoms. You will avoid having to return to your glasses

USEFUL LINKS

Pollen UK

Allergy UK

The Royal Brompton Hospital Allergy Unit

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Benedryl iPhone push App

The Food Doctor

iGO Overnight Vision Correction

Blue Peter's Helen loses her contact lens on the high wire for Red Nose Day

Before Overnight Vision Correction

Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton almost suffered a set back in here successful high wire challenge for red nose day. She lost one of her contact lenses toward the end of the stunt

She was trying to break the record for the highest high-wire walk ever by a woman in the UK after inching the 150m between two chimneys of London's Battersea Power Station 66m up all in aid of Red Nose Day.

Skelton, on a steel wire slightly narrower than a 10p coin, took 14 minutes to complete the 160-yard journey.  But on the last few steps she could barely see because one of her contact lenses had fallen out. There was no safety net, although she did have a harness attached to a safety wire.

Losing you contact lens on the hire wire is not the best place to lose a contact lens but it is not a scenario many of us have to face. However losing a contact lens is something which can happen at the worst possible time. 

Remember when Gordon brown lost one of his contact lenses down the plug hole just before a very important speech a few years ago and he didn't have any spares. 

Many sports people like rugby players are always losing contact lenses. England Rugby International Jo McGilchrist was always losing hers during games but the she discovered iGO Overnight vision correction contact lenses. 

So if you want to avoid losing your lenses switch to overnight vision correction.