From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:19:21 -0800, Bil wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I'm not clear on antimistamines, but recent research suggests that   
   > antihistamines (or at least one particular class of them) have a   
   > dose-related connection to the epidemic of senile dementia aka   
   > Alzheimer's. So yes, not exactly un-noticed.   
   >   
   Nor am I. The best I can do is to quote my personal history.   
      
   I'm from NZ. As I got into my teens and early 20s I had progressively   
   worse hay fever (grass pollen allergy plus bad one bad cereal-related   
   episode during a holiday in the Canterbury province, the one part of NZ   
   where wheat is grown) which antihistamines suppressed, but at the cost of   
   general woosiness and lack of focus, which I hated. Upshot: I gave up   
   using them because I found the running nose, itchy eyes and irritability   
   preferable. By the time I moved to the UK the symptoms had lessened.   
      
   In the UK I met pollen I wasn't used to, mainly cereal crop and rape (the   
   worst - still gets me but only for a week or so) and the symptoms   
   returned. Again I didn't use antihistamines (I wanted to drive without   
   crashing) and the symptoms declined over the next 20 years.   
      
   I haven't heard about the Altzheimers connection: looks like I might have   
   made the right decision: my memory is shit, but at least I know it is, so   
   I probably don't have the big A.   
      
      
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