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Harvest Time...

num1habsfan

By num1habsfan
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num1habsfan Rising Star
num1habsfan
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OK, not sure how many of you are even in this situation, but I'm hoping someone else on this board lives on the prairies...

As most of you know, I live in a small town...2400 people, if that. We are the biggest town in a 30 mile radius, and surrounded my farms. This town is 2 miles x 2 miles (no joke)...

Well, everyone is JUST starting to harvest around here, its gonna get worse, and I've already been feeling super sick just from stepping outdoors. I have so much phlegm in me that I nearly threw up today for no reason, and my asthmas acting up...and my stomach pains have seem to evolved, too...

So, for any fellow prairie girls/guys, how do YOU survive harvest???

~lisa~

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Hi Lisa

Of course you know I'm not from around where you reside but I wanted to let you know I don't usually have that type of problem ,,, but this year I've been mowing 3 acres of grass twice a week and harvesting a 1/4 acre garden . I had to get on drugs (which I Hate) just to be able to breathe this year. I hardly ever believe doctors but this year it is said to be one of the worst allergy times in recent years.

I know this will not make you better but I'm sending a big hug to you !!!!!!!!!

blessings

mamaw

Hi Lisa

Of course you know I'm not from around where you reside but I wanted to let you know I don't usually have that type of problem ,,, but this year I've been mowing 3 acres of grass twice a week and harvesting a 1/4 acre garden . I had to get on drugs (which I Hate) just to be able to breathe this year. I hardly ever believe doctors but this year it is said to be one of the worst allergy times in recent years.

I know this will not make you better but I'm sending a big hug to you !!!!!!!!!

blessings

mamaw

num1habsfan Rising Star
num1habsfan
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Yeah, I know like I said before, probably nobody else on this board lives in the country but I gotta add....harvest is at its prime right now....went to our farm tonite for a few hours (we dont actually FARM tho) and I checked my breathing when we were leaving....usually I'm around 450, tonite I was 330 :blink:

The air is filled with grains I tell ya! And its mostly wheat!! I feel super sick from the allergies, but also feel like I've been glutened (maybe from breathing? haha)...

I HATE THIS :P

~lisa~

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mn farm gal
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I live in a farm land area, and also work at a grain elevator. I have just been Dx'd 5 weeks ago. I am worndering if I am getting glutened from work with the grains and feeds. There is so much dust in the air here you could dust morning and afternoon if you wanted it to look nice. I have felt better on the gluten free diet but this still makes me wonder if I am healing slow due to the fact that I am at the grain elevator. Anyone know anything on this, any suggestions. Thanks

anerissara Enthusiast
anerissara
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My dad lives in Idaho in a house surrounded by wheat fields...when I'm visiting during harvest time I usually feel sick. My poor dad has terrible allergies, in fact he's had an awful cough that won't go away and nobody can figure out where it's coming from. This has been going on for 3 *years*....he did have a test done for the celiac gene and didn't have it, although I'm not sure which test or how competent the dr. was who did it. At any rate, it seems to me that if you're breathing in the dust all day you could certainly get sick...at my dad's, the dust can get so thick that I'm sure it must get in your mouth just walking around.

Hope you feel better soon!

plantime Contributor
plantime
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Chlorpheniramine Maleate, Phenylephrine Hydrochloride, Albuterol, Patanol, Nasacort, and a really good filter on my air conditioner. I struggle mightily to breathe when harvest is occurring around here!

BTW, my town is smaller than yours: 1 square mile!!

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num1habsfan
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Chlorpheniramine Maleate, Phenylephrine Hydrochloride, Albuterol, Patanol, Nasacort, and a really good filter on my air conditioner. I struggle mightily to breathe when harvest is occurring around here!

BTW, my town is smaller than yours: 1 square mile!!

I've been relying heavy on my inhalers lately, thats for sure. Last nite on the way home (dont ask, stupid complications the college is having lol), you could actually SEE the grain dust floating in the air...and then dad just HAD to have the windows open all day!!

What a time to be given a 107-page accounting assignment due in a week, when the brainfog is hitting me hard :P

~lisa~

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Hi, I live in a farm town of about 500 people or so....out in the middle of nowhere! I have delt with allergies and asthma for many years. I live in Iowa and as far as I know we don't really grow wheat. We grow beans and especially corn. I tested really bad to corn pollen with a skin test. I'm also allergic to a number of other allergens including household ones. I have been on inhalers and allergy meds for as long as I can remember. I know running the air helps some.....probably the most. It makes sense to me that especially if you can see the particles floating in the air that you have to be ingesting some of it in through your mouth. I donno for sure but my understanding is that it only takes a very small trace of wheat to be glutened so I would sapose it's possible. On top of running the air my parents used to run hepa filters in our house...maybe that would help. I've heard good things about the ionic breeze systems but have never used one myself.

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Hi, I live in a farm town of about 500 people or so....out in the middle of nowhere! I have delt with allergies and asthma for many years. I live in Iowa and as far as I know we don't really grow wheat. We grow beans and especially corn. I tested really bad to corn pollen with a skin test. I'm also allergic to a number of other allergens including household ones. I have been on inhalers and allergy meds for as long as I can remember. I know running the air helps some.....probably the most. It makes sense to me that especially if you can see the particles floating in the air that you have to be ingesting some of it in through your mouth. I donno for sure but my understanding is that it only takes a very small trace of wheat to be glutened so I would sapose it's possible. On top of running the air my parents used to run hepa filters in our house...maybe that would help. I've heard good things about the ionic breeze systems but have never used one myself.

Well like i said, my dads stubborn, and hes opening the windows instead of running the AC! So I'm sure some of that stuff comes in thru the windows, and today and yesterday the wind just HAS to be from the direction where most of the farming takes place...Even in the small city I'm going to school, I nearly had an asthma attack just walking a mile! (its surrounded by farms as well)..

And its not my fault that the main industry of this entire province is farm..if the farmers are broke, so is everyone else, basically...

~lisa~

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