Deborah Bartlett never understood what people meant when they talked about hay fever ruining their lives every summer until she developed it herself in her late 20s.
‘Then it hit me’, she admits. ‘All of a sudden I was constantly sneezing, my nose was streaming, and my eyes were so itchy it was unbearable.’
Deborah’s misery would start in the spring and last all through the summer. ‘The worst element was how itchy my eyes were, especially because I wore contact lenses,’ she says.
She tried every over-the-counter medication available – from nasal sprays to tablets and eye drops – but nothing seemed
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