Eye Allergy

[OakLeaf]

- Change your pillowcases (maybe all your bedlinens) daily while the pollens and molds are so high?

- Rinse your face with plain water before bed?

- Neti pot or other irrigation - the eyes are connected to the sinuses via the tear ducts, and inflammation in the sinuses will affect your eyes?

- Quercetin, CoQ, pantothenic acid/balanced B-complex, vitamin C (ester-C or Pure-Way C shouldn't cause stomach upset or leach minerals from your body)?

Personally I HATE air conditioning and I'd rather suffer through no matter what the pollen count is, but have you tried sealing up your house?

When you say prescription eye drops, do you mean Patanol antihistamine drops, or did you try steroid drops - topical steroids aren't near as scary as systemic?

Are you already getting immunotherapy? I keep beating that drum - but when you can actually train your body to stop reacting, that's so much better all around than treating the symptoms, even if you still have to use meds for breakthrough symptoms. Generally - an optometrist/opthalmologist isn't going to have the expertise dealing with allergies that an allergist will.