It's official: I'm a sensitive person!

[malkin]

No more exercise outdoors until the air clears up.

Grrrrr.

[sarahspins]

I hear you.. cedar fever season is really beginning to wear on me.. I've had the lingering "I'm getting sick" feeling for over a month now, and it's only allergies... I'm ready to be done with it.

[BikeDutchess]

Can practically taste the muck in the air outside. No desire at all to breathe heavily out there. Yuck!

[ny biker]

A doctor once told me that I am a delicate flower.

I wonder what the diagnosis code is for that.

[MommyBird]

It's pretty clear here in Georgia right now.
Come April it will be a different story.
Everything becomes monotone outside...pine pollen yellow.
I never saw anything like this growing up in Washington State.

[Bike Chick]

It's pretty clear here in Georgia right now.
Come April it will be a different story.
Everything becomes monotone outside...pine pollen yellow.
I never saw anything like this growing up in Washington State.

It's the same here in southern Illinois.....ACHOO! ACHOO!

[malkin]

I read that the particulates are so fine (PM 2.5) that not only can they be inhaled and cause trouble for nose, throat, and lungs, but they can also pass through the lungs and circulate in the blood, like the stuff that is supposed to be there--like oxygen.

bleh

[yellow]

Oh, heck, I've been sensitive since around Christmas. Longest stretch of crappy air quality since I've lived here. Even working out indoors I feel it. For a while there I was getting 2-3 nosebleeds a day...can't tell me that isn't a sign that something is very, very wrong with the air. We've been going up Kamas way a lot, and to Soldier Hollow to get out of it. BUT, doesn't the air always suck for Sundance?

[malkin]

... BUT, doesn't the air always suck for Sundance?

Exactly.
It was clear in 2002 for the Olympics, but I think that was because so many people left town.

[owlice]

For a while there I was getting 2-3 nosebleeds a day...can't tell me that isn't a sign that something is very, very wrong with the air.

Around here, that would mean the air is very dry. Though the area I live in is known for its humidity (and also hot air, but that's Congress), forced-air heat dries out the air in the house so much that both the kid and I have had nosebleeds because of it. When that happens, I run a humidifier, mister, or boil water on the stove to get some moisture into the air, and voila! No more nosebleeds, and the house feels warmer, too.

[bikerHen]

It's pretty clear here in Georgia right now.
Come April it will be a different story.
Everything becomes monotone outside...pine pollen yellow.
I never saw anything like this growing up in Washington State.

You must have been on the westside. Here in eastern Washington we definitely get pine pollen yellow. bikerHen

[bmccasland]

Replaced air filter on heater yesterday, I'm really really hoping indoor air quality improves.

[OakLeaf]

Cedar's pollinating.

My allergist is "up north" and doesn't get cedar serum. I've been with the same practice for 20 years and don't want to have to go through getting a Florida allergist. Plus, generally I'm worse with the summer pollens, and a Florida allergist probably won't stock Great Lakes antigens.

My head hurts (literally and figuratively). And I'm a complete wuss about headaches, since I so rarely get them.

[malkin]

Out in the shopping world last weekend I scoped out the scratch & dent table and found a Venta Airwasher on deep discount.

It's kind of a humidifier which claims to clean the air too. Fired it up and finally slept all night last night without coughing. I'd like it better if it would clean the dust out from under the bed too!