Bye-Bye Red Eyes

Living on an enchanted island in Scandinavia is a paradise in the spring; that is, until the birch and grasses begin to bloom. For years, I could barely open my eyes when I awoke to the symphony of pollen in the air. I walked around looking as though someone had told me it was my last day. It felt as though a layer of sandpaper had been inserted between my contact lenses and my eyes. My children jumped each time that I sneezed (every five minutes) and our tissue paper budget increased exponentially during each warm season.

Of course, I had my antihistamine tablets and soothing eye solution. However, for someone who is not a pill taker this approach feels unsatisfying. I also noted that the instructions on the antihistamine packet stated clearly to take only one per day and only when necessary. This bewildered me. I needed one several times a day throughout the warm season!

Then I became a beekeeper. During periods when I harvested honey, I could not resist dipping my fingers into the basin of delicious unprocessed honey that did not make it into pots. I would end those days of honey harvesting feeling a little over-sugared. What I didn't realize was that all of the time, I was building up my own natural resistance to pollen during the coming year by eating the local pollen residue in the unprocessed honey.

Relief did not come suddenly and I still needed to swallow the odd tablet. After three years of ingesting a lot of local pollen through beekeeping, I barely noticed the blooming of the birch and grasses this year except by seeing it clearly through unreddened eyes. I sneeze occasionally, but it is more than bearable.

So, if the spring gets to you in this way, I cannot recommend more highly starting to consume local pollen through raw honey from your area. Pollen and honey from anywhere won't do. You need to eat the very stuff that makes you sneeze!

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