An allergy expert gave advice to hay fever sufferers as the UK was hit by a pollen bomb.Source: This Morning, ITV
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00:00 Generally, if you've got hay fever, and it will affect particularly sleeping, so it can mean that you're more tired than you should be,
00:07 you can't concentrate and learn as well as you might do, but it affects your general health, which means that if you've got a tendency to eczema,
00:12 there's a chance it will flare it up. So good hay fever control, even though you're not talking too much about nasal symptoms, will also help.
00:19 So thinking about saltwater nasal sprays, maybe even prescription nasal sprays, as well as the antihistamines.
00:25 But then also thinking about how the pollen might be affecting the skin, which does vary. Some people don't really find it affects them, others do.
00:32 So thinking about pollen contact, so not drying clothes outside because they're going to collect pollen on a high pollen count day,
00:39 washing his hair at night so that he's not got pollen collected in his hair during the day that he's then rubbing on his pillow and then rubbing into his skin.
00:47 And then also, if you've got an eczema routine, I'm sure you have if there's a lot of ongoing eczema,
00:52 thinking about winding it up in anticipation of times of the year where things are going to be more problematic.
00:57 So many kids with chronic eczema will be on what we call weekend therapy, where they use anti-inflammatory creams just on Saturdays and Sundays.