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I used to really suffer from pollen in spring. I started regularly putting local honey in my tea. I'm telling you, it works. I have had no problems for the last several years.
Call me a pollen noob but
Why local honey (as opposed to any other type of honey)?
I used to really suffer from pollen in spring. I started regularly putting local honey in my tea. I'm telling you, it works. I have had no problems for the last several years.
I'm really going to have to give that a try... I can see some sensible tolerance reasons why it might work
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Originally Posted by rory breaker
Have you lived here long? This year was cake compared to previous years where it comes in waves (think multiples of the strongest day this year), and doesn't go away for many weeks.
Been here 8 years. I know this year has not been as bad as others and have certainly lived through the yellow dust clouds but still my reactions in April/May are pretty severe and there is definitely no such thing as a "good year". I'm sure looking forward to around two weeks time which is about when I usually start getting back to normal
I talked to some bee people over the weekend, and when I asked them about eating local honey to help with allergies, they pretty much said that the evidence of its efficacy is mostly anecdotal. Searching info on this on Google reveals that studies have been done, but efficacy hasn't been scientifically demonstrated.
A: No. The theory that taking in small amounts of pollen by eating local honey to build up immunity is FALSE.
Here's why: It's generally the pollen blowing in the wind (released by non-flowering trees, weeds, and grasses) that triggers springtime allergies, not the pollen in flowers carried by bees. So even local honey won’t have much, if any, of the type of pollen setting off your allergies.
Studies show bees don’t just bring flower pollen back to their honeycomb. They bring "tree and grass pollen, in addition to mold spores, diesel particles, and other contaminants," says Palumbo. The problem is that it’s difficult to make a honey from just one kind of pollen (say, weeds and not grass). So, save your local honey for your tea and toast, not for your allergy medicine cabinet.
There is this one study people tend to cite regarding honey with added birch pollen working, but the catch is, 1) additional pollen was added to the honey, and 2) there was no control group of non-honey patients. That said, if you're going to try it out, the bee people were saying to me that you have to match up the pollen and the honey on a monthly basis, as the pollen out there changes.
There seems to be something new in the air. Last couple of days, I've woken up with my eyes and nose watering like a fountain.
There is a cold going around; perhaps that's it?
Not sure how a cold usually manifests itself with you but it might not be allergies. Good luck and feel better soon.
There seems to be something new in the air. Last couple of days, I've woken up with my eyes and nose watering like a fountain.
I agree. I've lived here since 93 and the pollen this season is really taking its toll on me. Even when everything was coated in yellow in the past years, it never had that much of an effect on me. I had to pull weeds with my box of tissues over the weekend...can't stand it for more than 30 mins. I'm miserable out there!
Piggybacking on here to ask: is this year pretty typical in terms of amounts or unusually high? We just came back from a scouting trip to the area, and though we loved it, the pollen was really rough - and I've never once had allergies before. Just curious if this is to be expected every Spring...
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