Formaldehyde sensitivity?

Geo-TH,In

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I heard an ad on radio about a woman exposed to formaldehyde while living in a mobile home experiencing irritation of the upper respiratory tract. Claiming formaldehyde leads to narrowing of the airways, which can trigger wheezing and difficulty catching your breath. Exposure to formaldehyde can lead to increased sensitivity to airborne irritants and allergens. (Please call the law firm of DOOWEE, CHEATEM, AND HOW.)

The ad got me to thinking. As a kid I spent a lot of seat time on diesel tractors, no cab, I was exposed to diesel exhaust. Is it possible the same could be said about a person becoming sensitivity exposure to diesel exhaust? If a diesel truck passes me, I have to either pull over or hit my brakes or I will within 15 seconds I have a throbbing headache. I'm also sensitivity to many organic smells, perfumes, cleaners, and yes maple pollen, mold, especially grass mold.

BIL is also sensitive to diesel exhaust.

How many of you are sensitive to airborne irritants or allegens??
geo
 
I suppose anything is possible. Breathing in those type of chemicals is not healthy, for sure. Especially since you're getting all the combustion artifacts and unburnt carbon nasties from the fuel.
 
After Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA trailers were built with such speed, that the materials had no time to "gas out" many were parked un used. They call formaldehyde embalming fluid for a reason. Jim
 
I guess it's possible. I can't breath around any kind of perfume. Cedar pollen is really bad on my respiratory system. But what do you do? I just deal with it and if it kills me, well I never expected to make it out alive anyway.
 
And some are calling for the disbanding of the EPA??? Do you think that there will be less airborne pollutants without Government regulation and enforcement???
 
Not your imagination.
I have a relative that was diagnosed with MCS and is terribly sensitive to airborne particulates.

Diesel exhaust has a lot of particle in it and is definately not good to breathe. We are all a little different though so some will be more affected than others.

I'm not going to run around yelling that the sky is falling, but we do need to be on the lookout for health hazards in any form and avoid them.

I don't think it's any one smoking gun but these days we are bombarded with a lot of complex chemicals that get mixed up inside us and who knows how that stuff works all mixed together: pesticide/herbicide residue on food, chemicals leached from plastics and pvc pipes, chemical preservatives in foods, exhaust from vehicles and industry, etc, etc.

You can't get away from all of it but you can do what you can to minimize exposure.
 
It was also in the wafer board / aspenite etc. Someone here has to remember, years back when I was in high school, I heard of something called "rush".

Well one day this small brown bottle is getting passed around in class, science class as I recall, with one of the best well regarded christian brothers we had at the school teaching. Former golden gloves champ too, he could hit hard even at his age then. I tested him out one morning after unfairly failing inspection, by stating my opinion in reaction to the upper classman jerk who failed me because he could, not for any valid reason. Open hand 2x, once each way ! I told him my grandmother hits harder, lol! That got me booted from the class LOL ! He was one of the few good teachers that would help any student who asked. Always had extra help classes in the science/chemistry lab on saturdays on his time to help. Truly genuine, and he did most of the repairs at the school. He was one of the best who was very dedicated to his work and his religion. He was of the greatest generation era too. You know the type. Many of us remember him in high regards,(no pun intended lol !) and we did have some weirdos teaching there as well, some wearing the same cloth as he did. Br William was an honorable man who could never do enough for the students and the school. They had a small ford tractor for the grounds there, a shibaura model in blue with a ford label. I used to marvel at it since we sold ford and I was likely the only student who could operate a tractor, most were suburbanites or from the tri-city area.

Anyways, that bottle was apparently formaldehyde. Kids called it rush and were taking deep whiffs off of it, their faces turn red, almost pass out etc. Not sure who brought it or where it came from, I passed it along, took one tiny sniff to see what it was also wondering what the heck was wrong with these kids. I knew better than follow what these idiots were doing given how it smelled. I had heard of this in a lot of places. Seems kids still do similar things today.

If that brother had seen this, he'd have lit each one of them up for starters. He'd let some line out too, wait for the right time, no way out then.
 
I had not heard that before, so I checked it out and, as you already know, you are correct. I learned another something new today. I was surprised to find out too that gallon for gallon ethanol burns cleaner but power for power ethanol actually creates more carbon dioxide. Since there is less power in 1 gallon of ethanol than 1 gallon of gas it takes more to make the same power. It also produces nitric acid, which contributes to acid rain (maybe anything that burns creates nitric acid, I don't know), however it has no suffer content like petroleum does. Actually pretty interesting what is actually happening once you get past all the hype and B.S.
 
We used to use it in foot baths to prevent sore feet on cows,horrible nasty stuff,burns your eyes nose and throat just the fumes from it,we use copper sulfate now
 
Back when I was in HS in the 60's, all animals we cut up in high school biology lab were pickled in Formaldehyde. I don't recall even wearing protective gloves.
 
add this one to the list:

Cigarette smoke is laden with formaldehyde, and research suggests that e-cigarette vapor also contains formaldehyde.
 
Ya I remember that stuff too,.no where near as potent as the 28% stuff we used in the baths,it even burned under your fingernails if you spilled it on your hand
 
I'm not sensitive to any kinds of odors or pollen; but my Wife is extremely sensitive to the odor of fuels, especially kerosene and diesel. If I happen to spill some on my clothes and forget and get too close, she has needed to use her Epi-pen, or her throat closes right up.
 
The emissions are the reason I don't get the big push for ethanol and the EPA mandates. It doesn't make sense to me.

Why aren't they pushing propane? We flare so much of it off from the fracking wells and it burns very clean even with no emissions equipment.
 
It's funny as a cabinetmaker over a lifetime career there is no telling how many sheets of particleboard I've cut and didn't have any trouble but now that I'm old I have to wear a respirator to cut it. Closed up in a new mobile home I can see how it would make a lot of folks sick. The fumes burn your eyes as soon as you go in one.

I have always been sensitive to diesel fumes. Even as a kid I had to hold my breath as much as possible when following a diesel truck on the highway. Then one job I had I quit because the owner of the business was burning diesel in one of those cylindrical kerosene space heaters. I could barely tolerate kerosene but not diesel.
 
You think maybe the brown bottle could have been amyl nitrite? I remember that nasty stuff making the rounds back in the late '70s, '80s. It was found in first aid kits, poppers used for suspected heart attack, I think. There was a milder form sold for a while called "locker room".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyl_nitrite
 
Formaldehyde?is a naturally-occurring?organic compound?with the?formulaCH2O. It is the simplest?aldehyde?and is also known by its?systematic namemethanal. The common name of this substance comes from its similarity and relation to?formic acid.

There are claims that some foods we eat can be converted to formaldehyde in your liver.

And some people think cancer is caused by chemicals in the enviroment. Does anyone really believe all that?
wikipedia link
 

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