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Originally posted by crazyscotsdude
It might be worse than you think I'm in Edinburgh and alot of the people I know and work with are getting ill with sinus problems.
Most of them when diagnosed by the doctor are told its sinusitis but it seems abit too widespread for it to be a natural infection path.
Originally posted by jontap
everyone i know is having severe sinus congestion (causing complete nasal blockage), and headaches. nothing either over the counter or natural seems to be able to clear it up or stop it at all. this is happening to every single person i know. ALL OF THEM. the people who have this all say that this is completely new and most have never had any of these symptoms before. yet everyone has had it constant for well over a month (some 2-3 months) now without improvement.
Originally posted by jontap
does anyone know if there is some chemical or toxins that have been released in the air or water?? this has been going on for 2-3 months now with every single person i know and meet. what is going on??
Originally posted by lightworker12
Sorry but this is just kind of funny.
It's winter, people stay inside more because of the cold.
People spread germs to each other...it has been colder than usual so more people are staying inside.
Different viruses come and go, possibly creating the illusion of being sick with the same thing for many weeks.
Come on guys...
Originally posted by MadDogtheHunter
I get nosebleeds every winter...but only because my nasal membranes are so thin that the really low humidity dries them out and they crack open a little. About every other day all winter long. Annoying more than anything.
Originally posted by Seagle
Originally posted by MadDogtheHunter
I get nosebleeds every winter...but only because my nasal membranes are so thin that the really low humidity dries them out and they crack open a little. About every other day all winter long. Annoying more than anything.
This sounds serious. Was the onset of the wintry nosebleeds preceded by a period of regular sniffles, occasional appearance of a white powdery discharge around the nostrils and numbness of the throat? Sounds like a case of CCH (Columbian-Coekis-Habitus).
Some say it can be contracted from overexposure to contaminated US$50 bills.
According to an investigation conducted by researcher Andrea Silverthorne, “Methane gas oxidizes in the atmosphere first to a transitory toxic substance call methanol and then moves to formaldehyde and water vapor. Both are very dangerous gases, because formaldehyde is toxic, and water vapor traps heat.” Silverthorne cites a report published in Science Daily, about methane levels increasing by 27 million tons in 2007 (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
Let me close with some of Ms. Silverthorne’s important assertions:
Formaldehyde, like water, seeks its own level, rising higher and higher until it floods the lungs of all living breathing life, maintaining a level of .29 ppm, so we never smell it, but die from chronic exposure.
Extinction by formaldehyde gas would explain why small animals die first as a group and then larger ones die— as a group.
Is this why our children, who hang out closer to the floor, play outside and sit on the snow and ground more, are experiencing dramatically increasing immune and allergen disorders?
Carbon Monoxide is a Byproduct of Methane
This problem of ventilation is critical when natural gas (which is 97% methane) is burned in our homes, offices and businesses. When natural gas is burning in our boilers, heating radiators and water, and for some reason has an insufficient air supply, carbon monoxide is produced.
Carbon monoxide is colorless, non-irritating, odorless, tasteless and deadly. At 200 ppm (parts per million), you develop a frontal headache after just one to two hours of exposure. At 1600ppm (just 0.16%), you are dizzy, have a headache and feel nauseous within twenty minutes; you are dead in under two hours. At 12800ppm, you are lifeless in less than three minutes.
40,000 people each year in the United States require medical attention after inhaling carbon monoxide fumes, and many of them suffer permanent damage to their heart muscles. 500 people a year die as a direct result of carbon monoxide exposure.
Confusion About Symptoms
The symptoms are easily confused with other conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, flu, and migraines. Other more advanced symptoms you may experience include confusion, convulsions and unconsciousness. At the clinical level, you may have tachycardia (rapid heartbeat) and hypertension (high blood pressure).
Originally posted by svetlana84
Anybody checked on Swine Flu ?
BTW Europe seems to be sick as well.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by jontap
Me too. I got back from college and was sick since then(1.2 months). Then I took some immune boosters and got better in 3 days. It's been gone since. This is also marked by the sudden elevation of my Asthma, which is now all but nonexistent.
This is not the first time I've observed this in my self. When everyone gets sick, I get the same thing for about a quarter of the time, and then become immune to it forever and in fact, stronger. Seemingly as if whatever's causing it now adds to my strength.edit on 24-1-2011 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)