Guest guest Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Sent this to my magnet group, but thought I'd pass it on here, too. The last 2 days my husband has been suffering from cedar fever. It's an allergic reaction to the pollen from the ashe juniper tree here, also known as a cedar tree (hence the cedar fever). Normally he doesn't get it bad here at home or in our town because there aren't any of these trees near us, but we went out into the country Tuesday and he got a major dose of it. So he was really bad by Wednesday morning--pretty much unable to breath through his nose and his throat hurt because of the crud draining, plus he wasn't a bit hungry. You not only feel full from the stuff draining into your stomach but you loose your sense of taste (and appetite). Yesterday (Thursday) morning he was even a bit worse, if that's possible. He'd slept from 2:30pm Wednesday to 8:30 am Thursday but it didn't help a bit--it's not a healing sleep simply because this type of infection makes a person very tired. I happened to remember reading 's mention of putting magnets on the nose for sinus, and I remembered someone here mentioning blue painters tape as working good on sensitive skin. I figured skin on the face is not much of a place for regular tape, so I went and bought some. Came home and taped 2 power wafers on, one on each side of the nose, then placed 2 more power wafers on top of the tape to hold them in place and make them a bit stronger. He went back and laid down again for the rest of the day. He slept all day and all night, basically. The tape came off sometime during the night, but they had been in place for at least 18 hours. This morning he woke up and can freely breath through the right side of his nose, the left is still just slightly stuffy. His throat no longer hurts and he's STARVING. Lol 2 full days without food, not being hungry at all, and now he's starving. He feels so much better he cannot believe it and now says " I'm SO glad you found out about these magnets and I'm SO glad that brought their use out to the public " . I offered to tape up another magnet on the left side of his nose but he says he feels so good he doesn't think it will be necessary, though he may do it tonight before going to bed, as stuffiness is always worse at night. Normally when he would get a bad case of cedar fever it lasts for 2 weeks, at the least. Cedar 'season' here is from mid December to mid February, so people can suffer for a couple months. Since we are in an area without the trees near-by (the wind blows the pollen here though) he usually isn't affected for that long of time. He only gets it if he's directly exposed to the pollen, which he was in the countryside on Tuesday. Samala, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Wow. That is impressive. I have magnets, but have been kind of afraid to use them (other than putting one on my water bottle). Can you tell me the name of your magnet group? Thanks. > > Sent this to my magnet group, but thought I'd pass it on here, too. , > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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