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With pollen season upon us, Healthcare Handbook editor and clinical pharmacist Carmen Pope discusses the causes, symptoms and treatment of hay fever
1. Pope C (Tech Ed). Hay Fever. Healthcare Handbook 2023–2025. Auckland, NZ: The Health Media Ltd; 2024. pharmacytoday.co.nz/healthcare-handbook
2. Hammond C. Six myths (and truths) about hay fever. BBC, 14 May 2019.
3. Allergy New Zealand. Annual Pollen Calendar.
4. Allergy UK. Birch Pollen and Allergy for Healthcare Professionals.
5. Wong ML. Top 7 sneeziest plants of New Zealand. Stuff, 27 August 2019.
6. Allergy New Zealand. The Great Aotearoa New Zealand Annual Pine Pollen Season.
7. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Allergies and the Immune System.
8. Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy. Thunderstorm Asthma.
9. New Zealand Formulary. 12.2.1 Drugs used in nasal allergy. NZF v147; 1 September 2024.
Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
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