Dr Amir Khan

When you come in from outside, change your clothing, have a shower, get rid of that pollen off your body.

Pets in particular, try and get rid of the pollen off them.

Hoover your pets.

Hoover your pets.

Now, one of the things I always get asked about, and in fact, just last week I had a request from a patient saying, I want the hay fever jab.

Have you heard of the hay fever jab?

You don't want it.

So it was something that was given ages ago and some private clinics still do it, but the NHS definitely do not give this hay fever jab out.

It's a steroid jab.

It's called Kenalog.

And it's...

It is supposed to just like stop your immune system in its tracks and so your hay fever symptoms.

And you only need it once and that's you done for the season.

And it sounds really enticing and private clinics will give it to you.

What is the but?

The but is it stops your immune system in its tracks.

And so you need an immune system.

I'm no medic, but I'm pretty sure that's bad.

And so the risks of what it does to your immune system outweigh any benefits, I would say.

At what point did someone think that was really good?