Hello Elizabeth.  I may not have made myself quite clear. I do not say that symptoms of hormonal change are emotional and not physical. Of course they are physical, just as hormones are physical entities. But our emotions CAN be affected by hormonal changes..and that’s in both men and women, so I do not agree that to say so is at all sexist. PMS is just one example of this (or do you think that’s all in the head?). And there is enough research to show that emotions can worsen allergies…again in both men and women(eg. recent press release from Ohio State University on 11 Aug 2008 reporting on study showing that ‘Stress, Anxiety Can Make Allergy Attacks Even More Miserable, Last Longer"). It is not easy, probably impossible, to isolate precise causes of worsening allergies during menstruation, but it would also be negligent to ignore possible emotional factors.