FROM stuffing up your nose, to tickling your throat and making your head feel fuzzy, pollen allergies can manifest in a number of different parts of your body. Itchy, red and streaming eyes is a misery most hay fever sufferers know all too well. But the agony of hay fever might not end there for some.
A GP has warned that the ongoing 'pollen bomb' swirling around the UK could trigger three types of nasty infections in hay fever sufferers' eyes. GP, Dr Nisa Aslam advisor to www.goldeneyecare.
co.uk eye infection treatment, said it could increase the risk of allergic eye conditions and eye infections, such as conjunctivitis, styes and blepharitis, bringing unexpected misery for many. She explained that hay fever is caused by the reaction of the immune system to pollen, which triggers the release of histamine.
This in turn will cause unpleasant hay fever symptoms to manifest, such as a runny, blocked nose, sneezing, coughing, and itchy, red eyes. Dr Aslam said your peepers can be especially sensitive to allergens like pollen, which causes hay fever. "When pollen invades the eyes, they become itchy, watery, swollen and red," she explained.
"And if we rub our eyes – which is very tempting when they itch – they become susceptible to infections such as styes, conjunctivitis or blepharitis." Styes are small, painful lumps that appear on the eyelid, which can make the sensitive skin around your peeper red and swollen. Conjunctivitis - also known as red or pink eye - can be caused b.