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Here’s what you need to know for people new to pollen seasons.
- Get an allergy test to find out what you are allergic to; you don’t have to get allergy shots, but knowing if your problem is in trees vs grass does help.
- Close your windows. Once you determine what you are allergic to, check the pollen count in the morning and close your windows if your allergy is an overachiever.
- If pollen levels are high, shower when you get inside or wipe your exposed skin with a paper towel or wet wipes. It’s hard to see pollen, but it’s there, so wash up.
- Steam. If you are congested and don’t want to take medication, get the shower going, get a humidifier, or boil some water and inhale the warm steam. This helps break up the mucus so you can blow it out.
- Sleep on your left side. Post-nasal drip is when the gunk in your sinuses drips down to the back of your throat. It makes your throat hurt, scratchy, and nauseous because stomach acid can’t deal with mucus. Sleeping on your left side stops that dripping from happening and opens up the airways in your nose. It also helps with heartburn.
- You have four sinus caves, two above your nose and over your eyes, and another two under your eyes, and they can hurt. It’s like your face walked on legos hurt. You can get gel sinus masks to heat it or ice it down.
- Sinus caves, some people call them sinus cavities, but they feel like caves when they are full of snot. They drain down past your ears to your throat, and that’s why your ears hurt; the tubes are pressing up on your inner ear. They can also cause headaches.
- If you go for medication, remember to drink a lot of water; those pills will dry everything, and you will not be able to cry because the tear ducks are dried up.
- Non Drowsy can still be drowsy, sorry.
- Netti Pot might not work for you, it feels like I breathe through my nose in the ocean when I use it.