Hay Fever - is April too early?

I've tested positive for birch pollen. I must have been allergic 60 years ago when I noticed that I was snuffly when I took my parents' dog out for a night walk in the park, but nobody told me about tree pollens then. There's an immense birch tree the other side of the brook at the end of my garden and when the wind comes from the west, there's no escaping the pollen.

These posts have been very illuminating on the subject so thank you everyone! I feel as though I’ve learnt a lot. I’m going to check out all the different remedies you’ve recommended and try them out.

Coincidentally, I had a virtual book group meeting this morning and my friend is suffering from exactly the same thing, which also began yesterday.

Itchy eyes. Runny nose. Scratchy throat and headache. Every ruddy April ☹️

DGD 20 tells me she has hay fever already.

Not much rapeseed this year, insect attack cleared many fields, mostly tree pollen at present, my sympathy to those who suffer.
If nothing else works, try a homeopathic remedy, one daughter uses “Mixed Pollen” it works for her, no explanation why or how, it just does.

Another late onset of hay fever.
Never in my life have I ever been bothered, but there's a rowan tree not far from my front door and each year mid to end of March onwards when leaves and buds show, the nose runs like a tap and my eyes get a bit crispy round the edges.

Can't do anything about it medication wise as it'll interfere with the warfarin so I just have to have a fistful of tissues when/if I'm out or I'll have dewdrops on the end of my nose all the time. I'm glad I don't have bladder problems as well !

I went to the chemist to buy antihistamine eye drops yesterday. When I got home I found they’d only given me ‘soothing’ eye drops, with witch hazel in them, but they seem to have done the job of soothing, so I hope I’ll be more comfortable now.

No-pollen for other sufferers.

Definitely - Have been suffering for the past 3 weeks.. Took Claritin during the day and benadryl at night which also helps me sleep as I tend to worry a bit.. Both help! By summer I am usually fine… I sleep with the windows open which may not help..

I suffered terribly from hay fever in my teens and twenties, it wasn't taken seriously back in the 1960s and 1970s. Now I only get it at this time of the year, not too badly, and I take Loritidine tablets (once a day) which seem to keep it under control. It's tree pollen that does it for me, and we have a lovely birch tree and hazel tree in the garden just laden with dear little catkins (or Captains, as DH misheard me say yesterday).