Scary stuff

[melchar]

Just talked with my mom. She's been suffering for the past 2 weeks [awful all-body rash, aches] - and the latest doctor she saw gave her a new slew of drugs [that have helped] - AND the speculation that some of her problems have been caused by the hideous air quality.

Or more to the point, that the fires are burning cr@p-tons of poison oak and poison ivy which is going into the air that folks are breathing in - and getting sick thereby. Considering that the smoke is worse here, that's something more to worry about.

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[nobarking.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that's just awful and really, really scary. I had no idea that burned poison ivy/oak were just as dangerous, if not more so than just touching the plants, but it makes sense. REALLY scary though.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I've heard about the danger of breathing in burned poison oak because of news stories about it. At least once a fire season there's a story about fire-fighters on-scene getting a lungful and needing hospitalization. But the concept of the oils lingering in the subsequent smoke [that is currently thick enough to *cut* around here] never -clicked- for me before.