Steve Pope wrote:
> Miche > wrote:
>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>>> Why do you say that? I don't think being outdoors is a healthy
>>> thing at all. Yes, we need some sunlight for vitamin D. But I can
>>> do without all the pollen and pollution and I burn very easily.
>
>> Indoor air is often at least as polluted as outdoor air.
>
> Where Julie is, there is a huge amount of dust and dirt in the
> outside air. This is due to poor soil-conservation practices,
> overgrazing, underregulated construction activities, etc. The ground
> has all been torn up and stripped of its native vegetation. This is
> true for hundreds of miles in every direction. It is also an
> exceptionally windy area.
>
> So the outside environment is in fact pretty disgusting around there,
> as the result of a man-made situation.

This area is really being built up. I am surrounded by construction on all
sides. When they took the farms down, the mice moved in. And yes, it can
be very windy at times. Just the other day all this brown stuff blew all
over my van. I don't know what it was. I have to get the passenger air
filter changed on it regularly. It fills up sooo fast and then I start
having trouble breathing when I am in there. I also have very bad
envronmental allergies.

Scotch Broom was blooming a few weeks back and that makes me cough and
sneeze my head off if I walk or drive by it. Walking home from school was
bad when it was blooming. I would try to hold my breath and run past the
bushes.

Normally the cottonwood would be blowing earlier in the season but we have
had such odd weather. We are still getting it. I am very allergic to that
as well. But grass is the worst. I really suffer if I go by where someone
is mowing. I used to work at a golf course where they mowed something
daily. I always had to stay inside until well after they had finished
mowing or I'd really suffer.

I guess when people don't have allergies they take these things for granted.
And so far to date there has been no allergy med that has helped me. They
either give side effects or do nothing at all. I have to wash my eyes at
least once a day with baby shampoo to get the pollen out. Luckily the
allergy eye drops do seem to help. So at least my eyes can get relief. But
I am prone to hives in my eyes and that is no fun.