A doctor has debunked some of the strangest hay fever relief myths – including having sex to ward off the sniffles and putting garlic up your nose. Every year sufferers claim hay fever is worse than ever, and 2022 has been no different.
But recent shortages in medicines, with many high street pharmacists running out of stocks, has led some people to seek natural relief for their misery-inducing symptoms. To avoid wasted your time trying to decipher which alternatives work, Dr Stephanie Ooi from MyHealthcare Clinic is on a hay fever myth-busting mission.
She said: “Hay fever can be an extremely disruptive and uncomfortable ailment to deal with, especially if you can’t access regular medication to deal with it. Every year, new unorthodox methods of dealing with hay fever seem to dominate social media.
