Pollen is the name given to the fine powder that is produced by plants, trees or flowers to fertilise other plants, trees or flowers of the same species. Strictly speaking, hay fever is caused by an allergy to grass or hay pollens. Grass pollen is the most common cause and tends to affect people every year in the grass pollen season from about May to July (late spring to early summer). However, the term is often used when allergies are caused by other pollens such as tree pollens. Tree pollens tend to affect people from March to May (early to late spring) each year. Other people may be allergic to weed pollens (including nettles and docks). Weeds tend to pollinate from early spring to early autumn.

Symptoms are due to your immune system reacting to the pollen. Cells on the lining of the nose and eyes release histamine and other chemicals when they come in contact with pollen. This causes inflammation in the nose (rhinitis) and eyes (conjunctivitis). Sometimes the sinuses and throat can also be affected.

Hay fever is also called seasonal allergic rhinitis because symptoms tend to occur at the same time, or in the same season, each year.

 

Hay fever is very common. It affects 2 in 10 people in the United Kingdom. It often first develops in school age children and during the teenage years. Symptoms return for a season each year, but it eventually goes away or improves in many cases (often after having had symptoms each season for several years).

Hay fever tends to run in families. You are also more likely to develop hay fever if you already have asthma or eczema. Equally, if you have hay fever, you are more likely to develop eczema or asthma. The conditions asthma, eczema and hay fever are known together as 'atopic' conditions or 'atopy'. A tendency to atopy can run in families.

 

The symptoms of hay fever can vary from person to person. Some people only have mild symptoms that tend to come and go. Others can be severely affected with symptoms that are present every day during the pollen season.

The symptoms may be so bad in some people that they can affect sleep, interfere with school and exams or interfere with work.

 

An allergy is described as the overreaction of the immune system to a foreign substance or allergen that is eaten, injected, touched, or inhaled into the lungs.

Conventional medicine considers allergies to be manageable with drug use, yet incurable. Despite the findings of a Harvard Medical School study linking allergic reactions to stress and negative emotions, medical research continues to focus on yet more drugs that treat only the symptoms of the allergy without addressing the cause of allergy.

 

Emotional Freedom Techniques is an amazing based treatment that balances the energy system of the body by releasing the emotional root-cause of the allergy, thus allowing the body to heal itself. EFT can reprogram your body's reaction to the offending allergen quickly, often in just a matter of minutes. Even the most severe and complex allergic reactions can be eliminated by finding the emotional trigger that is activating the allergic response.

In many cases the problem is simply the body's misconception that the "flowers and trees" are attacking it, this then causes the body to launch a counterattack. By reprogramming the body with the belief that the flowers and trees are it's friend, the body calms and moves out of attack mode.

In other cases there may be a related trauma or event causing the allergic reaction. For these problems a more sophisticated approach is needed that first addresses and neutralizes the emotions of the trauma. Eliminating the effects of that related event often eliminates the allergy. Think back to when your allergy first began and see if there was a related event. For example, choking on a food could cause your body to see this food as "unsafe" or being forced to eat something could cause your body to reject it.

 

 

The EFT tapping procedure itself is very easy, anyone can learn it in just minutes. Each point tapped on is an acupressure point...and each point is connected to an organ. By tapping on these points while you are thinking and/orsaying a statement about your problem (pain, disease, unresolved emotion) the emotional charge around the problem is neutralised. Removing the emotional component of the problem usually allows the manifestation of the problem (pain, disease, emotional upset) to then fade away.
 

Some allergies are released this easily, with others you have to dig deeper.

 

There are often two or more aspects to allergies. The bodies reaction to the substance, the reason behind this reaction, your own fear of the reaction to the substance, and sometimes there will even be resistance to letting go of the allergy. Clearing all the aspects of the allergy can eliminate the allergy permanently.