I am grateful to Rudy Otter for sharing with us his remedy for red itchy eyes of hay fever sufferers during these summer months. I too have been plagued with this curse of summer for a couple of months now. My eyes were bloodshot and itchy ever since I was away on my holiday to the sunny climes of Ibitha.
My over zealous doctor has prescribed my tablets together with a couple of bottles of eye drops. But even these drops and tablets were not proving much effective. So I took heed of Mr Otter’s advice and started splashing cold water into my eyes at every available opportunity. Whether it was a coincidence or whether the problem had taken its course, but now the redness and itchiness have gone.
I am sure that we are not the only people who succumb to this scourge of summer hence I would corroborate the advice and ask other hay fever sufferers to do the same. It certainly provides temporary, if not permanent, relief. It is refreshing to know that I belong to this club of letter writers who write in this column to share good practices and ideas with the interest of their readers at heart. This is unlike some others who do not miss a single opportunity to bash their fellow writers.
The letters in this column should be informative and interesting and helpful to others. Long letters without much of substance in them need to be cut down to size.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
