Asthma in Arizona

Just to show No disrespect to Arizona, Valley Fever is in fact short for "San Joaquin Valley Fever"....commonly known as the birthplace and a very major contributor of the Fungus! Heck, my own introduction to it could have just as easily occurred in Bakersfield, where my brother lives.

aguablanco wrote:
....... The air in Phoenix is, right now,very polluted. Some say worse than Beijing. .....
RichH

Some say almost anything to get a reaction. Do you really believe everything that "someone" says? I was in the Valley in the early 70s - when copper mines were running full bore and the sky was brown. No comparison. Does there get some times when an air alert is issued. Sure, but at no time is it anything like Beijing, nor LA of the late 60s, 70s.

Lived in AZ nearly 20 years and have never met anyone with Valley Fever or AZ induced Asthma. As one who gets 5 allergy shots a week, I was sicker from my allergies from where I move 20 years ago! If you have or get Asthma, you can and will suffer from it in many other locations outside of AZ.

rocmoc n AZ

aguablanco wrote:
The air in Phoenix is, right now,very polluted. Some say worse than Beijing.

I've been to Beijing several times. Phoenix is not worse.

Part of the reason I enjoy being by (or on) a large body of water. I never thought I had allergies till I started fishing off a pier in the Atlantic.

While out on the pier I felt great. Once I came off the pier and headed inland I became stuffed up.

DW would get sick in FL from the pine pollen. We both get sick inland TX near the sugar cane burns. Neither got sick in AZ, but then we never spent a whole winter there.

2gypsies wrote:
It happens because travelers aren't used to the different pollens. Same thing happens to us when in Florida. Also, it's not asthma that you have. It's new allergies which can produce sinus infections. You need to come to Arizona every year to get acclimated. :)

I tend to agree. First time I visited Az, I got a very nasty bronchial something. Three years later, no problems.

Lived in Fl most of my life. Returned after being away for 3 years and got sick; my guess is mold and mildew, something that is hard to find in the desert SW.

Think the body has to build up antibodies and until you get past that, you have a good chance of getting sick.

Regardless, hope it all works out okay for ya.

It is a fairly unusual problem but I for one have suffered from allergies for seventy years now and if I catch a winter cold, something in my area causes my allergies to flair up. After the cold has run it's course and if I haven't taken Zertex or something similar, my sinuses will drain and while I am asleep I aspirate the drainage. This irritates my bronchial tubes and I get a dry cough. While I have the cold I have a productive cough, post cold, I have a dry cough and it can last for several months.

When my nose starts running, allergies or cold, I take Zertex D. The rest of the year I take Zertex.

It happens because travelers aren't used to the different pollens. Same thing happens to us when in Florida. Also, it's not asthma that you have. It's new allergies which can produce sinus infections. You need to come to Arizona every year to get acclimated. :)

What amazes me is how many people are affected, yet the causes are hard to nail down.

Guy next to us, his wife stayed back in Michigan this winter because of how bad she gets out here. She’s been to doctors and even hospitalized, but they can’t say the cause.

Guy across the street sounds like heck.

Whatever.

CT scan showed some lingering sinus infection. The asthma and drainage has been improving a lot in the past two days. If it clears up, then good. If not, then antibiotics.