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Hay fever can affect your quality of life. Constant nose blowing, sneezing, and other signs or symptoms can be inconvenient, uncomfortable or embarrassing. Hay fever can cause sleeplessness, fatigue and irritability and can affect your performance at work or school.
Hay fever often occurs with more serious allergic conditions such as asthma-a chronic condition that occurs when the main air passages of your lungs, the bronchial tubes, become inflamed. If you have asthma, you may have signs and symptoms such as difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, a tight feeling in the chest, coughing and wheezing.
People with hay fever may also have eczema (also called dermatitis)-an inflammation that can cause swollen, red or itchy skin. In particular, atopic dermatitis often occurs with allergies and frequently runs in families in which family members have asthma, hay fever or both.
Prolonged sinus congestion due to hay fever may increase your susceptibility to sinusitis-an infection or inflammation of the membrane that lines the sinuses. Sinusitis causes pain, tenderness and swelling around your eyes, cheeks, nose or forehead. Some people have sinusitis that keeps recurring or never goes away (chronic sinusitis).
In children, hay fever often is a contributing factor to middle ear infection (otitis media), which causes pain, fever and fluid buildup in the middle ear.