Eating local honey is often recommended as a treatment for hay fever. Does it have any effect? James Wong investigates
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24 March 2021
IT IS that time of year again. The days are brighter, daffodils start popping up around my neighbourhood, the dawn chorus of birdsong finally returns each morning and my social media starts filling up with anxious questions about whether local honey can treat hay fever. Now, I realise this is a little self-interested, but here is my attempt to get to the bottom of the best evidence we have to date, once and for all. Or at least until more studies come in.
With approximately 20 per cent of people in the UK affected by an …