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Sneezing fit in the morning

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Adrienne Hunter

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My husband, who has Type 2, has a sneezing fit every morning as soon as he gets up, with streaming eyes, for about ten minutes. This happens wherever we are, whatever the season, and then stops for the rest of the day, so it doesn't seem to be an allergy. Could this rhinitis be due to the diabetes? Anyone else get this?
 
So, it happens whatever bed he sleeps in? When exactly does it happen? Before / after getting out of bed, getting dressed, going to toilet, drinking tea or whatever, eating breakfast, brushing teeth, shaving etc? Did anything else change soon before or around time sneezing fits started happening? Do they occur every single morning? Since when? Knowing some detail might help you and your husband to work out possible reasons. If he's troubled by the symptoms, then he should consult GP or pharmacist (especially if medicines have changed recently).
 
grovesy said:
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He could be allergic to house dust mites.
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I was thinking it could be that too grovesey. It sounds so cheeky though - saying 'Is your house dusty?' LOL but it's truly amazing the amount of dust we produce during the night as 99% of house dust is nothing more than dead skin.

Have you tried stripping the bed entirely and vacuuming the mattress (all surfaces of it to within an inch of its life with the machine set on maximum suck and after you've thoroughly cleaned the filters (and replaced them if they're showing any sign of wear) and put a new bag in? At the same time wash everything washable including mattress protectors, the cover on memory foam toppers, clean bottom sheet pillow cases and duvet cover - oh and how old are the pillows - if they're feather and/or down - try microfiber holofil or something else purely synthetic. And see if it improves at all ? Light is the thing that dust mites don't like so I grew up knowing that you had to turn the sheets and blankets back as far as possible hanging off the foot of the bed, to expose both the top sheet and the bottom one and pillows to the light for an hour or so before re-making the bed. Ditto when you strip them - strip them back to the mattress when you take off the bottom sheet so first the mattress cover gets light to it, then whip that off too for a while so the mattress surface gets the light on it.

My husband would re-make the bed as soon as we've got out of it. No, no, NO!! LOL

Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted - and if you'd been in my house the last month you'd have thought I never cleaned it - but we were having building work done and it was filthy - with 'clean' dust - plaster, tiling grout, etc dust in addition to what we produce normally and it was a B nightmare, having to wipe and vacuum some parts several times a day - and consequently some places had to wait a bit. (Wished all my furniture was pale coloured with a matt finish LOL)

If it isn't that - I just don't know. The two people I know with a dust mite allergy aren't diabetic and I've never heard of it being a feature of diabetes in the last 45 years, so I really don't think it can be a reaction to it.
 
I am not Diabetic but have had an house dust mite allergy for over 40 years.
 
Thanks, everyone, but we know definitely it's not a dust allergy...it happens every morning as soon as he sits up; not before! And it happens at home, abroad, in tents, on a ferry...then stops for the rest of the day. It doesn't happen when he goes to bed at night. Anyway, thanks for the dust mite tips as we'll try them anyway!
 
I've been having another think about it - we had a mate who did that, but not immediately when he got out of bed, usually a while later. Husband used to go shooting and fishing with him at times so they'd be in the car en route either to N Wales where his boat was or wherever - and if it was G's turn to drive he'd have to stop ASAP and they'd swap. However - he'd never been a smoker and he owned a nightclub in the days when smoking on licenses premises was the norm. His doc reckoned his lungs were so healthy - it was all the c**p he'd been breathing in, the previous night, that did it. His body was simply, rejecting it.

Now - what the heck could it be that irritates your man? Any trees in the vicinity? (cos tree pollen's a swine - so is rape pollen)
 
Is the sun on him? The sun always makes me sneeze. 🙂
 
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