My seasonal allergies are worse than I ever remember them being. Even my husband has developed bad seasonal eye allergies this year.
The high pollen count and other allergens have left me reaching for these miracle workers:
The Meds:
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Zyrtec, the oral antihistamine that consistently works for me.
The Makeup:
4.
Laura Mercier Secret Concealer is the only product that I have found to effectively cover the dark circles that I get from eye allergies without settling into fine lines and wrinkles.
Let me give you eye allergy sufferers a few tips:
1. If you have never had allergy testing done, do it. Why be miserable if you could possibly get some relief?
2. Wash your hands A LOT to avoid polluting your face with possible allergens.
3. Avoid the things that you are allergic to as much as possible. For me, this means that I choose to stay inside on days when the pollen is bad or if there is a lot of dust.
4. Don't scratch your eyes. I repeat, DO NOT SCRATCH YOUR EYES.
5. Should you choose to ignore #4, DO NOT GOOGLE EYE SCRATCHES when you are suffering with a jacked up eye. Not only will you need the eye meds listed above, you will also need Xanax or your mother; or both.
Last Saturday morning I was sitting on my back deck drinking a cup of coffee. Within seconds my eyes started to water and itch, as they always do when an eye allergy attack hits. Unfortunately I made the mistake of rubbing my right eye. Somehow I managed to cut a tear into my eye and it hurt.
*Not just a little hurt, I'm talking about crying like a baby while jumping up and down and fanning my eye, kind of hurt.*
After spazzing out, I chose to google my ailment. This was a bad choice. I convinced myself that my eye was infected, that I would wake up with a dead eyeball, and that I should just hurry up and order a glass eye before the kids noticed that their mother only had one eye.
The next morning I woke up to find that my scratched allergy eye was healing and already looked SO much better. Good thing I didn't order up that new glass eye from Amazon!
