Did a large number of people have hayfever say 50 years ago and how did they manage their symptoms?
Obviously a lot more people are allergic to a large number of things in the last couple of decades, but I don’t know if many people suffered from hayfever in the past. If they did, were they suffering without antihistamines or did they have remedies to alleviate the symptoms?
We did have antihistimines 50 years ago, but they made you drowsy, so most folks with hayfever suffered with it until the first frost. People who had hayfever did try to avoid the allergens, such as ragweed. There were other remedies used that often didn’t help.
I’m sure they did…But not as many….we breath so much now days to what people did 50 years ago.
I’m not sure what they did then; I know that now, there is a natural, Homeopathic remedy called Allergy/Hay Fever Reliever by New Sun. It completely stops Hay Fever all together. It’s reasonably priced and it works. More info below in the link if you are interested
I remember taking an over the counter medication called Dristan. It helped me. I just looked it up and they still make it. Since we have a lot more pollution today than we did back then of course people are more allergic to more things now. The only thing that most people was allergic to back then was pollen and bug bites, bee stings, ant bites, etc….. And Dristan is an antihistamine….