In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Plumbers are in the building today to clean out the pipes and set them up for winter. Won't bother anyone unless they are in all day as they have to turn off the water to do this. They were suppose to start around 9am today and be finished around 4pm.
I am out for my walk in a bit just a couple of small things to do today.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Oh yeah... BTW... an opportunity came up somewhat recently and I did a little experiment.
I was going to say that I was allergic to Amox, but because that was never a definitive and I thought it might have been a food allergy, I took the scrip.
10 day scrip and everything was fine until the last day when everything below my waistline, particularly where my sweatpants were tight was on fire. 3 hours later I had hives all over. I told myself that I wasn't going to scratch this time, but by the 2nd night I had been "sleep scratching" for who knows how long and from the top of my feet to my neck and my scalp had been covered in hives.
About 5 days later they went away completely, although the itchiness remained for another 3 days and nights.
Eating food in general may have exacerbated it, but it wasn't the food itself. Once I realized what was happening I switched up what I was eating every night and it didn't make the symptoms any worse or better. Either the bulk of my flareups were occurring naturally at night and were coincidental to the fact that I eat at night, or just the act of ingesting food would make the situation worse. I do not have a food allergy.
That's good news, but boy was I regretting voluntarily putting myself back into that position. Now that it's over I'm glad I know though.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Back from my walk on a dry at least. Some clouds around. But I got all errands done for today.
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Quote:Oh I have so many allergies that they couldn't fit all of them into a single allergy shot, so they had to go with the top 22. Food allergies too.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I stopped giving myself allergy shots (inhaled allergens only) about two chemo infusions into my treatment... there's only so much misery I could subject myself to. The shots (which I gave myself for three years) helped with my significant mosquito allergy (bites actually caused hives) but I'm still wildly allergic to something in the Santa Anas. Hubby is also significantly allergic to something in house dust. Don't know what component exactly but every time he cleans out a PC or gets a snootful some other way, he sneezes and his eyes drip for hours.
SIX, allergies to the point of hives is nothing to fool with. If it progresses to swollen tongue, or worse, that's ER kind of trouble. Ideally you should have an epinephrine injector on hand, but since those are crazy expensive at least have some diphenhydramine (genetic for benadryl) on hand, or one of the 2nd generation antihistamines
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For urticaria [hives], cetirizine and mizolastine demonstrate superior suppression of wheal and flare at the dosages recommended by the manufacturer. For atopic dermatitis [eczema], as adjunctive therapy to reduce pruritus, cetirizine, ketotifen and loratadine demonstrate efficacy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9951950/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh I have so many allergies that they couldn't fit all of them into a single allergy shot, so they had to go with the top 22. Food allergies too.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I stopped giving myself allergy shots (inhaled allergens only) about two chemo infusions into my treatment... there's only so much misery I could subject myself to. The shots (which I gave myself for three years) helped with my significant mosquito allergy (bites actually caused hives) but I'm still wildly allergic to something in the Santa Anas. Hubby is also significantly allergic to something in house dust. Don't know what component exactly but every time he cleans out a PC or gets a snootful some other way, he sneezes and his eyes drip for hours.
SIX, allergies to the point of hives is nothing to fool with. If it progresses to swollen tongue, or worse, that's ER kind of trouble. Ideally you should have an epinephrine injector on hand, but since those are crazy expensive at least have some diphenhydramine (genetic for benadryl) on hand, or one of the 2nd generation antihistaminesQuote:
For urticaria [hives], cetirizine and mizolastine demonstrate superior suppression of wheal and flare at the dosages recommended by the manufacturer. For atopic dermatitis [eczema], as adjunctive therapy to reduce pruritus, cetirizine, ketotifen and loratadine demonstrate efficacy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9951950/
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Thank you for the warning. I was aware of the possibility of it going south if anything beyond hives happened, so I was sensitive to
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Local to the bite, but ginormous. I had a mosquito bite on my lower shin and it created a deep blister the size of my palm that wept for weeks. Eventually I had to put a gauze and ace bandage on it to tack the skin back down to the underlying tissue so it would heal together. That was gross.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Local to the bite, but ginormous. I had a mosquito bite on my lower shin and it created a deep blister the size of my palm that wept for weeks. Eventually I had to put a gauze and ace bandage on it to tack the skin back down to the underlying tissue so it would heal together. That was gross.
Oh boy...
Your reaction was quite a bit different to mine for sure.
My hives basically would appear everywhere on my body except for my face, my palms and the soles of my feet. They never were in my mouth, on my ears or in them either.
They never "blistered" or broke though, and not for lack of trying. I scratched the hell out of everything.
I did break some skin by the end though. That was after hives would pop up, but if I wasn't watching what I was doing I would absently scratch the backs of my hands and my knuckles and I was damaging the skin there. No oozing or nothing, and it went away with some hand lotion and me not scratching it anymore after the issue ended.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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