Pine Allergy, can anyone help?

Every time my bf comes home from work, my allergies go psycho over the pine dust he brings home from work. if i inhale it i can barely breathe and my neck and throat hurts! he's not in a position to leave at the moment and im not gonna to leave him when we love each other so much.





Can anyone suggest anything i can do or take even that might make the allergy back off a little? im really stuck on this. comments and replies greatly appreciated.

Pine Allergy, can anyone help?
It's very important that you see a physician about this.





Your uncomfortable allergic reaction can suddenly become an anaphylactic one, in which your blood pressure drops and your bronchial mucosa (lung tissues) become so swollen you cannot breathe. Anaphylaxis can be fatal, and is more likely to occur every time you're exposed to an allergen such as the pine dust.





Your boyfriend may need to shower and change clothes before he sees you after work. This may be difficult if you live together and he doesn't have any other place to shower, but repeated exposure to the dust on his skin, hair and clothes can be potentially deadly to you.
Reply:Pine products also include pine resin, also known as rosin or colophony, which is known to pool players and mountain climbers. Pine resin is also used in adhesives, paints and varnishes, inks and in


sizing for paper, paperboard and fabrics (Sadhra 1994). Abietic acid itselfitself elicits


relatively weak allergic responses, however, a number of compounds formed by


air oxidation of abietic acid are potent contact allergens (Hausen 1989, Karlberg


1988). What happens to asthmatics if they continue to be exposed? Another study of the British Columbian sawmill workers followed 48 of the workers with asthma who


remained on the job. Although 10% of the patients improved, none of them


recovered, 62% remained stable and 38% got worse (Cote 1990). Thus, it seems


imperative that an individual with cedar- or pine-induce asthma be removed from


exposure for any possibility of recovery, and that the recovery occurs among


humans only in half of all cases at best. The probability of recovery is likely to be


lower for small mammals.
Reply:If they have showers at work may be he can do one and clean change of cloths.


But you will need to go to the doctors and they can help you.