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Morning!

Good morning 🙂

Good morning!

First coffee of the day... Much needed!

Good morning!

Had a really nice cool cappuccino frappé at a café yesterday, yum.

Should start making iced coffees here at home.

so, eating a bit of honey with pollen from the local oil seed rape seems to have staved off my starting sinus headache. Explain that science! (is it placebo? is it some other effect? did the pirinase just take a little longer to kick in today?)

mwah ning

@otfrom a friend of mine swars on eating honey with local pollen to train his immune system and make his hayfever go away. I cannot tell about the placebo part of the effect though 😛

(I had to get shots over about 4 years to get rid of most of my allergy)

well, maybe it does work

science? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074882/#:~:text=Loratadine%20has%20been%20proven%20to,partial%20relief%20from%20nasal%20congestion.&text=In%20this%20study%2C%20the%20ingestion,4%20symptoms%2C%20including%20nasal%20congestion

> together with the antihistamine treatment

> Determining the potential long-term effect of honey ingestion is beyond the scope of this study.

may still just be placebo? ;)

ah, but now I'm in the bibliographies. I'll be back 🙂

and placebos work, so 🤷

I happen to work on a product that should be able to give you a list of relevant studies.

I find only one RCT about this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21196761/

Btw, I've also tried this approach since I have basically any common allergy in existence: pets, nuts, eggs, pollen ... etc. I've tried "local honey" but I didn't notice much difference.

I've also tried shots, but after two years of therapy they revealed that it's basically pointless if you have too many other allergies

So they first earned the money and then told me the truth, very clever

On a slightly related note. My youngest son is very allergic to grass (a very common grass around here that we call Timotej, no idea what you guys call it). The thing is that he is so sensitive to it that he basically is a living Timotej pollen probe and the pollen reports we have access to are useless compared to him. I have this vague idea that people like him could maybe crowdsource a prognosis and it would at least be of help for people a bit less sensitive. Does such a thing exist already, to anyones knowledge?

yeah, I don't think I'm terribly allergic. Some running eyes, but it is the sinus headaches that really get me. It was bad in London between the plane trees and the pollution. I think I'm just a bit sensitive to particulates, so the big fields of oil seed rape around here get to me

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