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cj1976
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 Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:45 pm Post subject: Does the Yellow Dust make you sick? |
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| Last 2 days I've started developing cold/flu-like symptoms (stuffy itchy nose, dry cough, headaches and mild nausea). This seems to have coincided with the yellow dust clouds. Could it be just a coincidence, or is the dust causing these symptoms? Does anyone else feel sick? |
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ChilgokBlackHole
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: Does the Yellow Dust make you sick? |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| Last 2 days I've started developing cold/flu-like symptoms (stuffy itchy nose, dry cough, headaches and mild nausea). This seems to have coincided with the yellow dust clouds. Could it be just a coincidence, or is the dust causing these symptoms? Does anyone else feel sick? |
It could be the yellow dust, pine pollen, a winter's worth of dust that you can now enjoy airborne because people open the windows, or a combination of any number of allergens that come out to play here every year at exactly the same time. |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| To my knowledge, yellow dust doesn't cause cold and flu symptoms, but could cause cancer and disease on down the road just as smoking cigarettes and ingesting other pollutions can do. You are probably coming down with a cold just as many people got in the past month. I came down a month ago with runny nose, sore throat, and all that crud, but just got over it a week ago where it lasted 3 long miserable weeks. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
No? So the yellow dusty stuff all over my bicycle the past 2 mornings was not yellow dust? |
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Colorado
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Location: Public School with too much time on my hands.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| More likely the stuff on your bike was pine pollen. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess I could be having a reaction to the pollen. Would this cause the symptoms I described? |
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Colorado
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, especially if you have hay fever or allergies. |
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Colorado
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| But just for the record, yellow dust CAN make you ill. |
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Adam Carolla
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
Washed my car last Tuesday.
Got an inch of dust on it already.
My car begs to differ. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Adam Carolla wrote: |
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| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
Washed my car last Tuesday.
Got an inch of dust on it already.
My car begs to differ. |
Are you listening? IT'S PINE POLLEN. |
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Colorado
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Location: Public School with too much time on my hands.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Dude! Go wash your car already. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| Senior wrote: |
| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
Washed my car last Tuesday.
Got an inch of dust on it already.
My car begs to differ. |
Are you listening? IT'S PINE POLLEN. |
There was no yellow dust last week. I think it was two Saturdays ago there was a dust storm. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't dust from China on your car. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| Adam Carolla wrote: |
| Senior wrote: |
| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
Washed my car last Tuesday.
Got an inch of dust on it already.
My car begs to differ. |
Are you listening? IT'S PINE POLLEN. |
An inch? that's not dust nor pollen. That's an eruption. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
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| There hasn't been any yellow dust in the last week. |
No? So the yellow dusty stuff all over my bicycle the past 2 mornings was not yellow dust? |
Of course it was. When people say "yellow dust", they mean the dust storms from China. Apparently, what you have is pollen of some kind. |
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