‘Antihistamines and cutting back the trees’: can anything sort your hay fever?

We’re asking people across Wales if they’ve got any tips for hay fever, but most people say there’s not much that can help it.

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00:00Yeah, oh, terrible.

00:02Heavy fever is really bad.

00:04But I don't know what the answer is to that, really.

00:08It was always put down to cutting the grass and the trees, wasn't it?

00:12But whether there's another reason for it now, I don't know.

00:16Not really. No, she doesn't take anything or anything.

00:20And histamines, yeah.

00:22So that's about it, really.

00:24Has it been a difficult one this year?

00:26How's it been?

00:27It has affected her coughing-wise more than anything else.

00:30Because there's a few trees out there back which give off pollen and what have you.

00:34So I've had to cut them down a bit to take the pollen away.

00:37He is drowning in it.

00:39I don't know what he takes.

00:41But I remember I used to be a stock taker for a firm of pharmacies.

00:45And I used to get three hay fever castles.

00:49I was always giving them to him.

00:51They never ever worked.

00:52Now, he is coming up 62.

00:54He only got it when he was 40.

00:56He was 40 before he ever had a hay fever.

00:58He's been in a right mess, baby.