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.