Both hay fever and COVID-19 have respiratory symptoms. So how best can you tell these two conditions apart?
Whereas if you're up in Queensland, where the grass pollen season is usually throughout summer and autumn, prepare for hayfever symptoms to last for much longer.
Those who get hay fever are also more likely to be asthmatic, says Jo Douglass, an asthma and allergy expert from the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. "One in 10 people have asthma, so if you've got hay fever your chance of having asthma is about one in four, one in five." "People who regularly get hay fever will often know the symptoms well, such as the red, watery itchy eyes," Dr Roeske says.Professor Douglass says the immune processes underlying the two conditions are very different.
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