Mya - welcome to HP and thank you for sharing your positive experiences with tissue salts. I'd love to know more about this. What do you take, and from where did you get your guidance?

I'm afraid that I have no direct experience of hayfever to share with you. I think that the best I can do is to roll out the traditional advice for supplements to boost your general immunity - which will help your body deal with allergens (and other things which tax your immune system).

Vitamin C - my suggestion is to buy ascorbic acid powder, available from Holland & Barrett, and put about a quarter of a teaspoon in a small glass of water or juice, once or twice a day. Zinc (15mg) taken last thing before bed is helpful too. Plus, invest in a good multivitamin - something that you get from a health food shop, not from Boots or the supermarket.

It also makes sense, if you are spending money on supplements, to take care to eat a healthy diet. The most important immuno-suppressors are sugar, refined carbohydrates (white flour, white rice, peeled potatoes) and alcohol. Cut out as much sugar from your diet as possible. This means reading labels on breakfast cereals and tinned foods - and cutting out stuff like icecream, biscuits, sweets, chocolates, cakes... etc. And increase your intake of vegetables, fresh fruit and wholemeal breads and cereals. Folk here can provide guidance on dietary overhaul, or can direct you to someone in your area you can consult, or send you to websites which provide help. Just ask if you would like this.

Yes, do tell us about your tissue salts. And well done on your impressive results so far.

Ava x

Hi Mya

Firstly sorry to hear about your allergies, you are however in good company as thousands of people suffer this problem every year.

Here’s some information from my website which I hope will help:

Various essential oils seem to help with the symptoms, some people finding one more helpful, and some others, just as different sufferers react to various types of pollen in the first place. Any of the oils which relieve the symptoms of the common cold, especially Lavender and Eucalyptus in inhalations, may help to reduce the sneezing and runny nose, but your first line of attack should usually be the oils which are helpful in treating allergies in general. Camomile and Melissa. Of the two Camomile seems to be effective more often than Melissa, but this is unfortunately a situation in which trial and error seems to be the only way to find out what is most helpful for the person concerned.

High levels of Vitamin C supplementation seem to help a lot of hayfever sufferers (at least 3 grams a day), and attention to the diet in general can also be useful. Dairy produce and refined starches, which tend to encourage the production of mucus, should be kept to a minimum, if not cut out altogether, and this does seem to lessen the allergic reaction in quite a lot of people.

Hi, sorry for taking so long to reply.
Thank you for the advice.

I picked up the Tissue salts (H) in boots, I'd gone in to get a sinus rinse and had a look at their alternatives to anti histimine as they weren't working for me, what I actually wanted, which had been recommended, wasn't in stock. I chose the tissue salts as I could take them up to every half hour in needed, considering if I'm not affected by dust mites then I'm affected by something else this was great and I decided they were worth a try. I started taking them that lunch time and by the next morning I felt so much better. It was a huge improvement to how I felt previously.
I would really suggest that if anyone has problems with allergies like hayfever then they give them a try.

Thanks for that Mya - I'll have a look at Boots' selection of tissue salts. It's encouraging to know that you found them effective.

Ava x