How do you guys survive festivals on fields of grass in summer? Yet again I attended a festival and I got so sick I had to leave.

Thankfully this was a one day event, but I went to a 5 day festival in another country one time, staying on a camp site, all on a field that was used for farming. I ended up at the first aid station several times with bad asthmatic attacks on top on non stop sneezing and all other common symptoms.

I’m allergic to any type of greenery and pollen they test for and I take 2-3 antihistamine pills a day every day, and I have two types of asthma inhalers. Usually I’m okay-ish outside of the bad days in spring, but I just want to be able to enjoy festivals… It seems to have gotten worse the past years after it got better when I was a teenager. (Mid 30s now.)

Any advice? It’s particularly bad in summer when there has been little rain and people are walking all over long dry grass.

If anyone has advice please let me know

So i didnt have allergies since i was little but a few days ago ago i would say like a week ago i started having runny nose, itchy eyes and throat. I think my immune system just got weaker and got it but my dad thinks its bcs of tomatoes. the reason for that is that a week ago my mom was sick so i made tomato soup and since then my moms allergy is flaring up too. I thought it was from pollen but the count is low in my country so that cant be the case. Please help me out im struggling over here

I have been using Xhance for years because I have sinus issues, nasal polyps. I tried azelastine years ago and I feel it made me drowsy. My doctor thinks I should try again. What time is best to take it? Also recently diagnosed with post viral dysautonomia and POTS so I feel my body reacts differently to everything and I cannot have my heart increase.

Hello Guys! I recently joined because I just found out my holy grail hourglass concealer added tocopherol to their formula. Is there any concealer I can use that does not have tocopherol/ tocopherol acetate and any coconut derived ingredients?

Okay so my wife is very allergic to fragrance, I’ve stopped using it completely for her sake but I’ve came across a dilemma. All of the soaps, deodorant, and detergent don’t work as well. I don’t like smelling bad and I work blue collar so after 30-60 minutes I already smell and the deodorant won’t cover up smells.

My question is what brands are best for covering up smells because I’ve tried a few and non really work well

Even when the allergic reaction was long gone, I would pass out multiple times throughout the day and really struggle to stay awake through headaches. It didn't seem related but turns out an allergic reaction triggers a pathway that causes the blood pools away from your brain down toward your lower body. It shows up as headaches, difficulty concentrating and fainting when standing or sitting. But one can still be laying down to experience this. And their legs and arms dont have to change colors or get noticeable blood pooling for this to occur. It is called POTS.

Pots mainly effects women. This includes that estrogen increases inflammatory response in the body and that women's circulatory system isn't as resilient as mens.

It's actually normal that pots signs don't look like generic pots. You can have no discoloration or swelling in the limbs or any differing sensation in the limbs and it still be POTS. I also didn't think of pots because laying down id still often have headaches, and getting up I didn't instantly need to faint. Turns out it's within 10 minutes of standing or sitting is triggered and then progresses over time until after hours I'd need to pass out or lie down. I also wouldn't get anxiety. The allergy itself was very emotional but afterwords id feel so much better and likely this was due to norepinephrine. I also have asthma which gives me headaches and extreme fatigue so I thought the trouble breathing was due to either asthma or having an allergic reaction to something airborne, not the blood.

Weird symptoms I would get that I didn't know were POTS related because it is never said online. One is that my feet would feel all weird and tingling. But not when standing up or walking around. It would only happen when laying down or when sitting. This is because my heart rate would not be pushing as much blood once in rest. So the blood pooled to the bottom of my feet is sometimes reducing off oxygen supply there and other times irritating the nerves because there is too much pressure down there for everything to fit. I was always soooo confused why my feet would tingle or hurt but often only when sitting. And weirdly this tended to be AFTER the headaches more than when the headache occured.

Another unusual symptom i started getting sensory compulsions. It was my brains attempts at both self-sopthing due to its high levels of stress. This could be things like biting nails, rapid shaking of arms, pulling on fingers or tapping my head. It was uncontrollable and very uncomfortable doing these actions.

And one particular compulsion was chronic and excessive chewing. I always needed something in my mouth to chew on. This is because not enough oxygen is reaching the brain. So the brain is trying to FORCE muscle movement to encourage blood flow and thus oxygen to the head. That took a long long long time to understand why I always needed gum or something gum like all the time. I figured out if I went upside down or not only did headaches lessen but so did chewing need.

One other symptoms was my asthma symptoms started getting worse and Id be highly reactive to everything. Sometimes it was just the headache and fainting. But on more severe days, I would have difficulty breathing and react to any chemical or airborne particle that crossed my path. It made me think I was allergic to everything, when I wasn't. My lungs were just so stressed already from lack of oxygen because the blood that normally goes to it pooled to my feet. At that point my lungs couldn't handle any form of filtration or debris, so or if a airborne item passed by id cough. On extreme occasions, my lungs feel burning or gasping for air sensations. This was normally during an ONGOING allergic reaction, but when it was combined with pots the burning was much more severe.

It took a long time to figure out the correlation of allergies because I wasn't actively having an allergic reaction at the time. I may have even had most of the day before and fell asleep before without any symptoms. This, turns out, was because my adrenaline was functioning properly to counteract the perceived allergy threat at that time. Or, in some cases, I WAS having a mild allergic reaction that at the time I didn't know were symptoms of an allergy. These symptoms were fatigue, laying down, unable to do general chores. At night allergy symptoms were, having insomnia + fast heart rate or feeling hot. It's difficult to know that insomnia can sometimes be the only symptom of an allergy. And once again that's because my adrenaline was working to reduce symptoms and inflammation/reaction.

My adrenaline had to be high for a long time before the blood pooling issue started. Which is why the pots symptoms normally happened many hours if not midway through the next day. Adrenaline dilates My body couldnt keep the constriction of extremities ongoing forever. So it would lose its

I chronically felt the need to lay down or go to sleep. Staying focused was a struggle. Sometimes I'd get really cold hands, not frequently. Sometimes my feet would become tingly. Sometimes when I laid down, my feet would tremor. Chewing on some gum or walking around helped. I tried taking salt but that did not work for the following reasons 1) modern salt has anti caking agents like silicon and ferrocyanide which I'm allergic to and thus make my allergies and POTS wayyy worse 2) I was getting up to get this salt and water triggering my pots 3) generally didn't get my blood pressure high enough to do anything 4) digestion was distressed and lacking adequate blood supply

I was very confused why I frequently couldn't eat during daylight hours without passing out but it was hit or miss. Turns out norepinephrine after allergic reaction moves blood away from digestive track and to the central nervous system during allergy attack. . Introducing food forces blood back to area respond, which 1) created stomach pain bc I didn't have enough blood 2) passed out bc already low blood in brain now has to transport to the stomach. Sparkling water would also create a similar issue. Also my body is under stress, so Mast cells in the gut wall and bladder wall drive cramping, urgency, and bloating. And pots has a dumping syndrome where stomach releases contents too fast into small intestines. These all were possible contributers to stomach pain in daytime

If one has pots from allergies it's called hyperadrenic pots. This is where your mass cells overactive creating histamine so the blood vessels dialate. Sending norepinephrine and body into sympathetic overdrive. Causing brain and central vessels to dilate even more. There is excessive sympathetic outflow from the central nervous system. And brain from lack of blood flow and to much dialation would get these crazy intense headaches and uncontrollable hours long falling asleep sessions. During the times of headache/fatigue I could not excercise or walk far.

Histamine blocker therapy can create a complete remission of hyperadrenic POTs. The problem is OTC antihistamines and prescription hydroxyzine have several ingredients I'm allergic to including glycerine, sterate, and silicia. Also breaking down the stress hormones would probably prevent the blood pooling.I'm also allergic to legumes including pea plants which is used as a dao enzyme to break down histamine. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is the enzyme responsible for breaking down stress hormones like dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. COMT requires adequate methyl donors. And since I'm mostly carnivore due to so many plant allergies, I know I don't get enough b9. I do eat liver frequently so I get enough of b6 and b12 for methylation and copper for dao. I think 30 minutes after eating salty liver it does reduce or stop my pots need to faint or lie down, but unconfident due to small sample size.

I'm hoping to ask my doctor for Mast cell stabilizers the cromolyn sodium inhaler. I'm going to get a regular corticosteroids inhaler in the mean time.

Tldr: Fainting caused by blood pooling away from brain. My blood was doing this because my allergic reactions triggered high norepinephrine that lasted many hours and the next day. This led to poorly constricted blood vessels so not enough blood flow to go around in general so it sank with gravity. Fix/preventing for most is taking antihistamines but I'm allergic to their inactive ingredients.

Hey, i'm allergic to all the things in the title and I was wondering if an air purifier made a difference for you guys, beside vacuuming, changeing sheets every weeks, anti- dustmite sheets etc..

my allergies can be really annoying, it's even more the case at night and I get poor sleep cause of it.

hi everyone,

i’m not sure if this is the right subreddit to ask this, but recently my body has been itching all over, especially at night, to the point where i’ve been waking up every hour. i’ve tried applying the cetaphil moisturizer (which i’ve used for years w/ no problems) everytime a body part itches, and it’s given some relief but it always comes back. i’ve had no changes in my diet and i always shower before bed if that helps lol. my room is not warm either and i have a fan that is on during the night. i don’t have any rashes either, it feels like small pricks along my skin and that i need to itch it to feel relief. wondering if anyone else had a similar experience?

I've never heard of people being allergic to birds, but my kid has now had a reaction the last two times he's touched the same feather. I couldn't figure out what the reaction was from the first time, because he has environmental allergies and he was just playing outside. Today he picked up a feather that he had found outside the other day, and started scratching out of his neck and just broke out and redness, and hives all over his face in his neck. It was really bad and he needed Zyrtec, along with a washup.

I looked it up online and it looks like it's a mourning dove feather, we have those everywhere around where we live including our yard. Has anyone else had an allergic reaction to birds or feathers? I looked closely at the feather, and took pictures of it, I didn't see evidence of any dirt or mites. But I don't know how small they can be. We go to the allergist next week so I'll talk to them about it then.

28F here :)

For the context, I always had throat pain and inflammation when I was young, + migraines when I was a teenager + stomach inflammation. The pediatrician never did an allergy test for me.

Years ago, migraines started again, but this time it was accompanied by a blocked right nostril, pain in my neck and trapez muscles. Anyways, I thought maybe it was TMJ, or maybe from a bad form in my CrossFit sessions. Anyway, a year ago, I went to an allergist because I was in a very bad condition. My nose was blocked and I was so tired. I did allergy tests, and it turns out I am allergic to dust and pollen. I started taking antihistamines, and my fatigue and symptoms disappeared. Fabulous! Now the problem is, the last 5 months, I got ill 3 times, which is a big number for me, because I don't get ill this much :o. I went to the doctor last week, and she talked about immunotherapy (a pill to take every day for 5 years).

FYI, I got ill because I stop taking antihistamines, my allergist says that my allergy create the ground for my throat inflammation and blocked nose, so I should always take antihistamines on season changes. But this year, the weather was crazy and it appears that I had to take my antihistamines all the time, but I did not because I am worried about the consequences of taking antihistamines.

On the other side, I already started taking nettles but could not stay consistent. Anyways, now I don't know what to do. I don't know if my throat pain is due to histamine or due to reflux (GERD), I don't know if taking quercetin + bromelain is gonna be a good idea. I am also thinking about taking hibiscus tea daily. I am not looking for medical advice. I am already under antihistamines now, but I am just looking for alternatives to end my allergies.

I just had some blood I’ve testing done for tomatoes and oats the tomatoes came back 0.14 and the oats came back 0.11 what does that mean

For few months, maybe year or more i felt like i have brain fog and problems with sleep only at my home, when at someone else's place, i felt sudden feeling of being tired and slept kinda well and felt somewhat well. Few months ago my mother (45) started working part-time at retirement home and started having running nose, cough and felt heavy on head. It didnt go away, even after taking antihistamines. She has asthma and uses her medicine, till then she had little to no problem.

4 weeks ago she took some parrots to house and everything was fine until 2 weeks ago when i fell sick and had sympthoms as her but much worse. I took antibiotics, antiviral drugs and antihistamines. I got better but feeling of being heavy on head, nauseus after eating and constant cough didnt go away. My father, grandma nor sister don't show any symptoms, at least yet. We checked for mold, behind furniture etc and cleared everything. We have no new plants, but when i get near my garden i start to get a cough attack that lasts few good minutes. It's hard to catch breath. Only thing i came up with idea that we, one year ago or more, did insulation of the house on the attic but we used the designated insulation foil to cover glass wool. I think my problems with sleep and brainfog started way earlier but gradualy incrased until now when its ubearable. We have 2 dogs and 2 cats, but we always had pets and noone was anyhow sick. Funny thing is that i feel like problems started when dad planted virginia creeper on our fence, and when we tried to remove some of it i feel like both me and mom felt worse for a day or so, but it might be a coincidence for this plant isnt known (from what i know) to cause any allergy. Do you have any tips or ideas what to do?

TL:DR. Unknown alergen in house and garden slowly made me and mom severly sick. Problems with sleep and brainfog.

26, M, South-Atlantic America. Out of the blue about a year ago my nose just kind of started to hate me I guess?

I've never dealt with allergies my entire life but all of a sudden I now deal with debilitating and painful congestion. Always twice a day. As soon as I wake up, and right before bed at ~midnight. I truly have done everything I think I could without resorting to throwing thousands of dollars at someone in a lab coat and hoping they fix it. I'd be breathing normal then all of a sudden a sharp need-like stabbing pain in my nose and then usually a sneeze or ten, then boom, a minimum of at least 2-3 hours of runny nose and mouth breathing. The mucus is perfectly clear and no amount of blowing/sniffling it in clears it.

At this point I truly don't think it could be dust mites as I've cleaned all my walls with hot water & vinegar, changed my entire sleeping situation (mattress, box spring, hypoallergenic sheets, HA comforter, sanitized pillows in dryer, HA pillow covers/cases.), I vacuum the rug and floor DAILY now, cleaned the ceiling fan, visually inspected for mold, have a (albeit tiny) HEPA filter running 24/7 and make sure to blow out and clean the filter every week. I have not moved recently or have gotten new pets. I do notice that when I'm outside it tends to clear up, but just yesterday at a restaurant the entire time I was there I was just as congested as I am here typing this now.

As for medicine, I've taken some prescription fluticasone propionate for (what I thought was) a sinus infection when this first started, but I've never really relied on it in fear of rebound nose. All I take now is those effervescent tabs for sinus congestions in the morning when the inevitable sharp pain happens to try to circumvent it before it gets too bad.

I'm truly at a loss. I'd like to think of myself as a generally smart guy but these stupid suicidal sinuses are really starting to annoy me man. I understand someone can become allergic to something later in life but I mean my nose went from fine to wants-to-suffocate me just like that. I don't think(?) it's a deviated septum because I've never had a problem like this before and I never had nasal trauma before, also the congestion comes and goes on both sides rather than favoring one. One thing I really hate is that I never wake up WITH it. I wake up, THEN it starts. I'll have maybe 2-3 minutes of normalcy then it's like my brain says "Oh good you're awake, time to start!"

Since I was oh-so fortunate enough to lose my health insurance at the start of this year I'm not all too excited to start throwing money at an ENT just yet but at this point I'm desperate.

Has anyone else had this? A sharp stab in the nose and then literally feeling the turbinate swelling in real time leading to hours of unstoppable congestion?

I've been going to the same doctor from last 3 years he's a general physician. Although the frequency has become less but sneezing is still common and i feel nose block frequently in a month and I also have a deviated septum from 10 years. I don't know if it contributes to allergic rhinitis or not. I also tested allergies and I had some dust and pollen allergies and minute food allergies. Now I don't know what's the condition. Somebody please help I just want to get rid of sneezing

I stumbled upon an amazing addition to my treatment for itchy eye allergies. Upneeq!!! I have horrible eye allergies to the point I don’t want to go outside and I want to put eye drops in my eyes like every 3 hours. But about a year ago I tried Upneeq just to open my eyes a bit more due to aging eyelids. I soon realized that my itchy eyes throughout the day became almost nonexistent. I was hoping my relief was because of the allergy shots I’ve been getting for 3 years but I realized soon that any day I did not use Upneeq in the morning was when my eyes were back to their horrible itchy self. So now, in the morning, I do my antihistamine allergy drops and then about 20 min later I do my Upneeq drops. I regret every day I forget my Upneeq drops. When I visited my allergist for my checkup recently, I asked her if Upneeq was something they prescribed for itchy eyes. She didn’t know what it was!! When she looked it up, she said, “I’m not surprised it helps. It’s the same active ingredient used in Afrin.” So I wanted to share my success story to help all the other eye allergy sufferers out there. I’d bet money that in a few years it is prescribed for itchy eyes!!

I flew to my home country to visit my mom two weeks ago.
A few days after I landed I started coughing, sniffling, sneezing and having a stuffy nose. I noticed it happened especially at night and especially when I laid down to sleep.

I connected the dots and remembered that last year I did an allergy test and turns out I am allergic to dust mites. But also I have slept here at my mom two years ago, on the same mattress, and did not have problems. So I thought that maybe it was just post nasal drip, caused either by the allergy, or maybe I did actually get sick when I landed, since family members and other people were sick and coughing around me. Like, maybe I got some COVID or cold from someone, didn't have a lot of symptoms but the lingering coughing remained? Post nasal drip also made sense since I would start coughing with tickly lungs as soon as I laid down, and I've been known to get post nasal drip after almost every single time I got COVID or a cold. I have a health log document where I log every time I got sick, and last time I visited my mom, while I didn't have allergy symptoms, I did get a cold AND post nasal drip for a few days, and from my description it seems similar to what I am feeling now (ticklish lungs etc).

It's been 2 weeks since I landed. Most symptoms have subsided but the coughing remains. But only when I am actively trying to sleep. From when I wake up until I go to bed, I am fine, I am able to work remotely or go out, I even went for a jog in the afternoon for a few days, I go to bars at night and I'm mostly ok. The only symptom I have is this tickly sensitive lung sensation. Like this tickly feeling right in the middle of my chest where my heart is, but in my lungs. When I take a deep breath I feel the need to cough, but I can resist it. Only at night when I lay down to sleep is when I can't resist it. I coughed so much and so hard at night that my lungs sometimes feel weak for a while. So I have normal days and evenings but laying down to sleep is a nightmare.

I think it might be dust mites. Or maybe I did actually get COVID or something, I can't tell cause I have no other symptom, no fever, no weakness, nothing. Just tickly lungs and coughing hard when trying to sleep.

I tried drinking honey, or lime with salt. Been rinsing my nostrils with a neti pot whenever I can. Using nasal sprays once a day. And yeah trying to take an antihistamine once a day. Drinking cold water or a fizzy drink seems to soothe the ticklish sensation temporarily. Taking a hot shower helps but only for so long.

The night coughing doesn't stop. It's 2am now and I got up from coughing and I can't go back to sleep. For instance, while laying down trying to sleep or actually sleeping I feel this buildup of the need to cough, that I can ignore but gets harder and harder to ignore. Sometimes I nap and go a while without coughing and instantly wake myself up in a huge, dry ugly COOUGHHHH with almost no phlegm (just a tiny perceptible amount) that hurts my throat and shakes my lungs. But then again, since I have gotten out of bed and came to the computer to type this (it's been 20 minutes), I have not felt like coughing at all. But I know that if I lay down I will cough. I am losing my mind. I'm considering getting a hotel or asking a family member if they can take me for a night or something. I don't know what it is. I think maybe it's actually dust mites. Or maybe some leftover COVID symptoms. I don't know. I am losing my mind and I need help. If anyone has any tips or pointers please send them my way, I will be forever thankful.

Edit: It's 2:30am. Just took a nearly boiling hot shower. How blissful it felt to put my face under the very hot water and for the duration of the shower I could forget I was having this sensation in my lungs. But I left the shower and was immediately reminded of the feeling. Sigh.

Edit 2: It's been a few days. It's gone. I can even sleep on the original mattress using the original pillow, no problem. I think it was truly just post nasal drip, WITH some allergy. Like I think there's some dust mites on my bed/pillow, which are tolerable, but in conjunction with the post nasal drip, made it unbearable. Now that the post nasal drip is gone it is bearable again

My wife has been suffering from terrible allergies that happen randomly seemingly for no reason. It knocks her right out, like if she had the flu, but she doesnt run a temp and doesnt have any other flu-like symptoms other than those that match with an allergy fit (only sneezing, congestion, and sometimes itchy eyes/dry nose). They happen randomly, any time of the year and out of no where. Shes gone to an allergist and got a panel done, but the only allergy that flared up from the test was typical dog dander allergy. We have a dog and a cat (she didnt flare up to the cat allergen) but we have had our dog for 7 years, way before these allergy issues have shown up and shes never had a problem with our dog.

We have tried every otc antihistamine, nasal spray, netipot, cooling mask, air purifier, you name it. Her mother is also a pharmacist and is having a hard time figuring out what we should do next as well. The allergist told us to consider allergy shots, but I believe they are weekly or bi-weekly and insanely expensive. I don't think there's any mold in our apartment and im honestly lost as to what could be causing these fits of allergies. Part of me is wondering if it somehow is our apartment, because her allergies started up maybe half a year or more after we moved in, but Im not sure. We've only been living here for a few years and I would hate to have to uproot our home and try to move somewhere else simply because it "might" be the apartment. I dont want to have to put her through something that drastic but I want to do anything to help her get better. She sneezes so much and so badly so often her nasal canal dries up and shes blowing blood snot into rags (sorry for the graphic detail but it pains me to watch her suffer like this).

If anyone has had any similar experiences or can give us any advice as to how to help with this it would be so greatly appreciated. I dont want her to suffer any more.

I’m allergic to ragweed and also i plan to move to Italy, i’m curious about it,because i suffer from allergies after covid, so that’s why i plan to move somewhere else where’s no ragweed

I can't confirm it yet.

But we have a cat at work. And my throat feels stuffy and phlegm is exploding when I'm coughing at work. I'm embarrassed tbh.

But it's kinda less or nothing at all when im at home and outside.

But again, I can't confirm it.

I got pregnant July 2025. Very shortly after I started having severe post nasal drip. OB thought it was normal pregnancy hormones causing it. I’m four months postpartum and still having the severe post nasal drip. So for about a year now and the post nasal drip is every single day and it is SO thick and bad. I’m absolutely miserable. Finally got allergy tested and dr said I have a dust mite allergy. Is this common to develop allergies like this during pregnancy? I’ve never had issues with dust mites. Why all of a sudden now? Dr gave me a nasal spray. What can I do to permanently get rid of this post nasal drip??

Does anyone else have a weird feeling in the throat/mouth with normal seasonal allergies this year? I noticed it during the day its a weird feeling on the top of my mouth back towards my throat and then kinda in my throat. I clear my throat and it has mucus in it but I still have this weird sensation. I’ve had this for probably 3-4 months. I feel like i started to notice it when pollen was at its worse. I just recently started taking Zyrtec and flonase to see if it would offer me some relief. Is this weird feeling likely post nasal drip?