> Antihistaminic pills are effective at relieving symptoms, but of course you cannot live on the stuff for months or years Why not? During pollen season, I ta

> Antihistaminic pills are effective at relieving symptoms, but of course you cannot live on the stuff for months or years Why not? During pollen season, I take cetirizine once a day for hayfever. Outside pollen season, I take it once every two days, since I get mild hayfever-like symptoms (especially itchyness, though not nearly as bad as in pollen season) all year round. I saw my GP a few years ago. He said, sure, I could get tests to work out what exactly I was allergic to, but given it likely wouldn't be anything I could avoid, and that generic cetirizine is less than 8p a pill over-the-counter and completely solves the problem, why not just go on taking it all year round? I couldn't disagree.