Stella Rees opticians

Hay fever

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Dry itchy eyes around this time of the year?

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Have you ever considered you might suffer from hay fever?

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Back in the day when they used to attach a number to pollen count it was generally accepted that a count of 70 was enough to set your average hay fever sufferer off.

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Nottingham, being in the centre of the country would regularly get levels of 200 and over.

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Some summers it would rise to as much as 500

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These days they have dumbed it down to low/high/very high

 

These exceptionally high levels meant that people who didn’t see themselves as “Hay fever sufferers” were actually being dragged into the net without realising it

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For thirty years I’ve been seeing people around this time of year with streaming red eyes and no idea why.

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If you seem to suffer itchy, red or watery eyes try keeping a diary of what the pollen count is from the weather forecast

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I will update this page as I go along

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For now please refer to the chart on the right 

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reproduced with thanks to the College of Optometrists