problem with vaseline is as soon as you blow your nose its gone. I take fexafenadine 120mg which helps, only real cure I found was kenalog injcetions, but they wont do that anymore apparently 🙁
only other resonably effective remedy I've found is smoking. It may be a placebo, but here's my theory (feel free to shoot this down with facts and/or common sense, I appreciate hayfever isn't as bad as lung cancer, but here we go…)
If you smoke, you have less ability to taste or smell things, I am under the impression that this is due to the hot smoke damaging taste buds and the hairs in your nose. By blowing hot smoke through my nose, I find it runs a bit then I become quite dry. For some reason this then eases my hay fever symptoms leading to the wholly unscientific theory that the hot smoke may be damaging the mucous membranes ability to recognise the pollen and react innapropriately to it. Whilst at Glastonbury, I found my medication would wear off around 5-6pm When I would take OTC cetrizine and loratadine and have a smoke. Tablets alone seemed to take a while to take effect, and this is often the time of day when I suffer the most, but the addition of the cigarette seemed to help.
However, could it be that the cigarette raises BP and heart rate briefly releaving symptoms some other way? Who knows, seems to work though.
I personally hate it when people coo "have you got a little bit of hayfever, ooh i always get a bit sniffy this time of year"! I've been given adrenaline twice for anaphylaxis, thats not "a little bit" thats actually quite serious! Though I do apprecite in the eyes of darwin, I should have died the first time I sniffed a flower!