How to Cope with Hayfever, Asthma and Related Problems.
A step-by-step guide to understanding and coping with hayfever, rhinitis and other allergic reactions.
What is Hayfever? What pollen is and what happens when it lands in your nose. Allergic reactions to pollen. Diseases developing from hayfever.
A Modern Disease? The first record of hayfever came as late as the nineteenth century. Possible links between hayfever and pollution.
What Goes Wrong in Hayfever? the concept of allergy and the classic allergic diseases: asthma, atopic eczema, nettle rash, hayfever and food allergy.
Self-help Measures. Lessening your symptoms - without drugs. How different foods can trigger allergic reactions. Using pollen counts sensibly.
Help from Your Doctor. How to decide whether to take drugs to alleviate symptoms. Desensitisation techniques and recent advances in their use.
When Hayfever is not Hayfever. How to decide whether your hayfever actually is hayfever. How to cope with a year-round runny nose.
Avoiding Hayfever in Your Child. What to do to minimise the development of allergic reactions in your children.
