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Hay Fever

Hay fever Hay fever is roaring in its ugly head again. We remember Allium cepa, Sabadilla, Nux vomica and ...?
Here is a list of the most frequently indicated medicines for hay fever. If the list seems a bit long it is because differential diagnosis of medicines is paramount.



The Most Frequently Indicated Symptomatic Medicines



Allium cepa   Kalium Iodatum
• Abundant watery coryza, excoriating
the nostrils and the upper lip
• Sneezes “like a machine gun”
• Conjunctivitis with stinging and burning pains
• Photophobia
• Headache
• Aggravated in the evening and by stuffy heat
• Improved in open air and by coolness. Ammonium muriaticum
• Aqueous, abundant and irritating coryza, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip
• Frequent sneezing
• Anosmia
• Hoarseness, dry cough, tickling in the larynx and sensation as if the nose was blocked despite the rhinorrhea.
  • Aqueous coryza that is very abundant and burning but not excoriating
• Accompanied by tearing
• Frontal headache
• Pains at the root of the nose
• Anosmia
• Aggravation in a warm room
Apis mellifica   Naphtalinum
• Scant nose discharge
• Pale and pink edema of the mucous membranes of the nose.
• Edema of the eyelids
• Important tearing that is burning and/or very intense pruritis
of the eyes (as if by sand)
• Improved by cold Arsenicum album
• Aqueous and burning coryza excoriating the upper lip with sensation of intense burning.
• Conjunctivitis, edema of the eyelids, intense photophobia,
tearing that is acid, burning and excoriating.
• Can complicate itself with asthma.
• Improved by hot applications and heat in general
  • Irritating rhinorrhea, close to Allium cepa
• The conjunctival symptoms are the same as for Euphrasia and the tearing is irritating
• Improved in open air
Arsenicum Iodatum   Nux Vomica
• Aqueous coryza excoriating the nostrils
• With sneezing
• Aggravation by extremes of temperature
• Improved by temperate weather
  • Dry coryza and blocked nose at night
• Running during the day, non-irritating
• Spasmodic sneezing on awakening, followed by a coryza that can be abundant or not
• Conjunctivitis sometimes, blinking, photophobia aggravated in the morning
• Aggravation in a warm room
• Improved in open air
Dulcamara   Sabadilla
• Nose blockage in rainy weather of cold humidity
• Followed by an abundant, non irritating coryza
• Pollinosis around the end of August when the
weather becomes cooler in the evening
• Possible concomitant conjunctivitis with in flammation of the
eyelids and abundant yellow discharge
• Dry and spasmodic cough and asthma
• Induced and aggravated when the weather is cold and humid
• Improvement by dry weather and by breathing in warm air.
  • Aqueous, abundant and non-irritating coryza
• Sneezing “like a machine gun”
• Abundant tearing
• Itching of the soft palate making the patient scratch it with his tongue to no avail
• Hypersensitivity to the smell of flowers, fruits and garlic
• Cold sensitivity and aggravation by coolness.
• Improved in open air and in warm air
Euphrasia   Sanguinaria Canadensis
• Abundant, aqueous and non irritating coryza
• Sneezing “like a machine gun”
• Conjunctivitis, stinging and burning pains, photophobia,
constant blinking
• Irritating and excoriating tearing
• Headache
• Aggravation in open air and in stuffy heat
• Improvement in darkness
  • Abundant, liquid and corrosive coryza
• Frequent sneezing
• Burning pains at the root of the nose
“sensation as if the mucous membranes were cracking”
• Nose polyps
• Dry and violent cough with tickling in the larynx
• Aggravation by humid weather
• Improved by breathing in cool air.
Galphimia glauca    
• To be given systematically
• Pruritis of the eyelids and corner of the eyes
• Tearing
• Sneezing, nasal pruritis, rhinorrhea
• Dry cough, asthma due to pollen
   

 
   
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