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#11216 - 01/03/06 08:04 AM allergic to Christmas tree
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	After all these years of Ross's asthma getting worse during the holidays, he finally decided it must be the tree. I thought I'd mention it here because Searcher mentioned in another post that she recalls her brother being propped up during the holidays with worsened asthma. Onward with artificial...
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#11217 - 01/03/06 12:18 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
Pattyann Member Registered: 07/08/05 Posts: 245 Loc: Ocala Florida	It could be Dotsie or it could be all the nasty preservatives they spray on them now. We always had a real tree til 3 years ago when I started to wheeze and my eyes would swell every time we put the lights on- it wasn't pine trees it was chemicals
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#11218 - 01/03/06 03:29 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	All the sellers of Pine trees spray them with flame retardent and keep fresh chemicals which may or may not work but they are not natural and in a cloosed warm home I imagine they output nothinhg good into the air....
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#11219 - 01/04/06 08:28 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	I never thought aobut what they spray them with. YUK! My problem is when I think of artificial trees, all I can think of is the dust that accumulates on them throughout the year. He's allergic to dust too.
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#11220 - 01/04/06 08:39 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
smilinize Member Registered: 11/08/03 Posts: 3512 Loc: outer space	Before I put the tree up, I lay out the branches, etc. on the back deck and hose it down. I guess I should use some antifungal soap. Maybe that would keep down the dust. smile
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#11221 - 01/04/06 02:31 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Dotsie, If you put up the tree only one week prior to Christmas and take it down right after New Years there shouldn't be all that much dust. Also you might try that spray used on silk plants, eats the dust somehow, just vanishes.
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#11222 - 06/19/06 08:51 PM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
Old Knitter Member Registered: 06/05/06 Posts: 42	I'm also allergic to Christmas trees....a real bummer. A few years ago we invested in a really nice artificial tree. People can not tell it's not real. I truly have not noticed dust on it as it gets pretty well shaken about when we take it down. I have had no "Christmas Allergies" since we started using this tree. It's truly worth it. I think you need to invest the most you can in it so it really "passes". Think how much you spend on real trees every year.
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#11223 - 06/20/06 12:07 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
Val Member Registered: 06/12/05 Posts: 110 Loc: Pa.	I have the same issue. I have allergies and asthma and stopped having real trees cause I was allergic to them but this year when I saw how dusty my artificial tree was I also realized that was a problem also and vowed that particular tree wasn't going up again next year. So I don't know what I am going to do either. I didn't want any tree next year......I said I was going to buy a glass/chrystal tree as my kids are grown up now and why should I go to all this trouble when they don't help and then my allergies are set off. They all groaned that we had to have a tree. I really don't have an answer yet.
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#11224 - 06/20/06 02:42 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Val you can buy a spray in a can that people use on their silk and other artifical plants when they get dusty, the dust disappears, puff gone! Don't know where and don't care but it is gone. My can is empty now and I need another one. I can't remember the name but got mine at K-Mart and most flower stores sell it too. Its some kind of a vegetable base I believe....I've used the same artifical tree now for years and its like new.
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#11225 - 06/20/06 02:59 AM Re: allergic to Christmas tree
Val Member Registered: 06/12/05 Posts: 110 Loc: Pa.	Thanks. I'll have to check into that. I'm still thinking;whats wrong with a 5 or 6 foot Waterford Chrystal tree tho? Other than I'd have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it:)
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