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ENTconsult - 29 Oct 2003 18:09 GMT

If you know anyone in the fire areas of southern california, I have put
together some advice that should be helpful. It is posted on
www.ent-consult.com
You may want to forward that information to them.
Anyone with sinus, allergy and asthma is going to be badly affected by the
heavy smoke.
For those of us here, this is really a major tragedy.
Murray Grossan, M.D.
http://www.ent-consult.com
http://www.hydromedonline.com

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DMLW000 - 29 Oct 2003 21:22 GMT

Thank you for posting this. I live really close to one of the big fires and I
have been suffering like a dog.

The information you posted is such a great overview. My ENT is not big on
irrigation and when I told him I was doing it, he thought it was useless.It
just makes common sense right now given the massive smoke that permeates
everywhere and everything. He gave me a prescription for Bioxin...oh well. I
think I'll step up an irrigation regime and see if that helps.

One question, I've had some bloody discharge with the irrigation is that due to
the smoke and particulates??? The other problem is sitting in a house with the
air conditioner on to keep the smoke out...the air is cold and dry and that
doesn't help either.

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Steven D. Litvintchouk - 30 Oct 2003 19:01 GMT

> Thank you for posting this. I live really close to one of the big fires and I
> have been suffering like a dog.
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> everywhere and everything. He gave me a prescription for Bioxin...oh well. I
> think I'll step up an irrigation regime and see if that helps.

Actually what would help more than anything else, is to take a vacation
somewhere else until the fires are out. Just leave the area.

> One question, I've had some bloody discharge with the irrigation is that due to
> the smoke and particulates???

Could be due to the dry air from your air conditioner, or inflammation
from all that crud in the air. Your air conditioner is not filtering
out all of it.

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DMLW000 - 30 Oct 2003 22:39 GMT

Today is so much better for us here in So. California. The temperatures have
dropped and we expect rain. The fires are slowing down and the air pollution
has decreased significantly.

I'm gratefull I'm just having some sinus issues from all of this...thousands of
others are homeless today....it puts things in perspective.

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ENTconsult - 30 Oct 2003 19:24 GMT

Dry air is bad for you. Get some shallow basins and fill them with water and
let them evaporate.
The bloody discharge may be from your nasal condition. Reflects dryness of the
nose.
The main reason I posted this advisory is that after the Indonesia and Kuwait
fires there were significant increaes in Ashthma and Sinus conditions. Perhaps
these could have been prevented by getting nasal / chest cilia back to normal
funcitoning.
At least removing the ash from the nose makes sense.
Murray Grossan, M.D.
http://www.ent-consult.com
http://www.hydromedonline.com

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