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Fragrances and asthma/allergies
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Hi Frouke,
That's too bad that you have those problems! That must be very hard to deal with. My nose is very sensitive to odors and dust and also my husband with his lung cancer had a problem with that sort of thing too. Whenever we went shopping or to a doctor's appointment we would put an antibiotic cream like Neosporin in our noses before we left the house. It helped to keep out smells, dust and germs. Also it helped a lot in the parking garages with all their fumes. It didn't always work but it was better than nothing. We tried wearing a mask but it just made us feel claustrophobic and unable to breathe. However, the time that my dentures broke and I had to be without teeth for a time in public the mask worked great and didn't affect my breathing! Maybe that was just my pride! It's hard to know what will work and when but when I find something that does work I just keep using it.
PML
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PML, It’s definitely a tough thing to deal with, today we have so many allergens in our environment so that makes it difficult to deal with, we get smoke days that come from places quite far away but the wind blows everything everywhere, I don’t feel well using antihistamines so it’s not an option. I worry so much about my survival, I live in a large high rise apartment and if I open my window I immediately smell tobacco or even marijuana drifting into my home so I keep them closed, sometimes I can smell tobacco even when they’re closed because it seeps through the walls and floors, it’s an old building. I’m a lung cancer survivor and so I will get very depressed due to the pollution because it makes me feel hopeless, I do my best to take care of myself but I feel defeated and there’s nothing I can do about it.