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Article: Living: Health - HAY FEVER; Don't let it take over your life Pollen counts are higher than ever - causing a summer of misery for hay fever sufferers. Lifestyle Editor CLARE McVEY looks at what's on offer to prevent the sneezes, runny nose and sore eyes.(ROP)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2001
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Byline: CLARE McVEY
STREETS, shops, offices and schools seem to be full of people with red swollen eyes and runny noses, wandering around in a weary but resigned state.
If you're one of the estimated 12 million people in the UK who suffers the annual misery of hay fever, you may well feel that your condition started earlier, and seems worse, this year than ever before.
And you are NOT imagining it.
We're told that high pollen counts are yet another unhappy spin-off from the devastating foot-and-mouth crisis that has swept the country this ...