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krisjohn53223
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I asked my CF doc this question a few years ago. I live in WI and I am always sick. I thought maybe AZ would be better, but she said there was a study done and the results (not exactly sure what the study was) showed that CFers for MN had the longest lives.
krisjohn53223
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I asked my CF doc this question a few years ago. I live in WI and I am always sick. I thought maybe AZ would be better, but she said there was a study done and the results (not exactly sure what the study was) showed that CFers for MN had the longest lives.
krisjohn53223
New member
I asked my CF doc this question a few years ago. I live in WI and I am always sick. I thought maybe AZ would be better, but she said there was a study done and the results (not exactly sure what the study was) showed that CFers for MN had the longest lives.
I live in Georgia where it's hot and humid in the summer and I like the heat but I don't like the humidity. I spent a week I Arizona visiting family awhile back and even though it was 100-103 degrees all week it wasn't as humid and I loved it. I felt like I was breathing better and I didn't ever feel too hot. Arizonas dry 100 degrees is better than Georgias humid 85 degrees anyday
I live in Georgia where it's hot and humid in the summer and I like the heat but I don't like the humidity. I spent a week I Arizona visiting family awhile back and even though it was 100-103 degrees all week it wasn't as humid and I loved it. I felt like I was breathing better and I didn't ever feel too hot. Arizonas dry 100 degrees is better than Georgias humid 85 degrees anyday
I live in Georgia where it's hot and humid in the summer and I like the heat but I don't like the humidity. I spent a week I Arizona visiting family awhile back and even though it was 100-103 degrees all week it wasn't as humid and I loved it. I felt like I was breathing better and I didn't ever feel too hot. Arizonas dry 100 degrees is better than Georgias humid 85 degrees anyday
My response is EXACTLY what blake (Lance2020) said. Humidity really does make me feel like I'm suffocating. If it's really hot too, it's even worse. I live in cleveland and last summer was so rough. Anytime I would step outside out of air conditioning I would feel like someone put a pillowcase over my head. Ugh! I like it chilly, just as blake said, but super cold can be really irritating...I often feel like it's shivering that makes me cough, maybe because I can't really relax to cough well when I'm chilled to the bone? Anyway, I've run into people who love humidity for their lungs, so I doubt there's a definite answer to your question.
@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
My response is EXACTLY what blake (Lance2020) said. Humidity really does make me feel like I'm suffocating. If it's really hot too, it's even worse. I live in cleveland and last summer was so rough. Anytime I would step outside out of air conditioning I would feel like someone put a pillowcase over my head. Ugh! I like it chilly, just as blake said, but super cold can be really irritating...I often feel like it's shivering that makes me cough, maybe because I can't really relax to cough well when I'm chilled to the bone? Anyway, I've run into people who love humidity for their lungs, so I doubt there's a definite answer to your question.
@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
My response is EXACTLY what blake (Lance2020) said. Humidity really does make me feel like I'm suffocating. If it's really hot too, it's even worse. I live in cleveland and last summer was so rough. Anytime I would step outside out of air conditioning I would feel like someone put a pillowcase over my head. Ugh! I like it chilly, just as blake said, but super cold can be really irritating...I often feel like it's shivering that makes me cough, maybe because I can't really relax to cough well when I'm chilled to the bone? Anyway, I've run into people who love humidity for their lungs, so I doubt there's a definite answer to your question.
<br />@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
<br />@ Blake, I'm kind of amazed that your response is literally exactly how I feel. I, too, always keep my hospital room chilly. I've never met another CFer that felt the same about the weather and breathing as I do, lol.
ehtansky21
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I am only speaking from having young ones with CF, so I am not sure how good my opinion is??? We lived in Arizona, moved to Kona, Hawaii and just got back from a month stay in Arizona and I really saw some differences in the boys health.
We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
blessings,
missa
We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
blessings,
missa
ehtansky21
New member
I am only speaking from having young ones with CF, so I am not sure how good my opinion is??? We lived in Arizona, moved to Kona, Hawaii and just got back from a month stay in Arizona and I really saw some differences in the boys health.
We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
blessings,
missa
We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
blessings,
missa
ehtansky21
New member
I am only speaking from having young ones with CF, so I am not sure how good my opinion is??? We lived in Arizona, moved to Kona, Hawaii and just got back from a month stay in Arizona and I really saw some differences in the boys health.
<br />
<br />We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
<br />
<br />The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
<br />
<br />In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
<br />
<br />If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
<br />
<br />blessings,
<br />missa
<br />
<br />We live on the dry side of the Big Island, which means the humidity is lower than other areas, but we have the ocean pretty close. The boys have been sick a few times here in Hawaii and they were able to cough up mucus and get their noses clear so easily. When in Arizona, both before we moved and on our vacation, when they got sick, that stuff would be so stuck in their lungs. My youngest would have so much mucus, that he would end up coughing and then throw up.
<br />
<br />The boys never really got used to the heat of Arizona and for 6 months out of the year, we would have to plan all indoor activities or live in the pool.
<br />
<br />In respect to the allergies, Arizona used to be the place to go to. But now, there have been so many plants brought in from so many different areas, that for some people, their allergies are the worse their.
<br />
<br />If it wasn't for the lack of health care, I would say that Hawaii is hands down the best place for my boys!!!
<br />
<br />blessings,
<br />missa
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Hi! I'm new on this forum and I'm glad to see this topic being discussed here. I live in Stockholm (Sweden) and I suffer a lot in the wintertime. I produce much more mucus and need much more IV antibiotics in the winter time, as compared to the summer time. The fluctuations in my health condition are so big I am actually considering moving to the south of France, in order to skip the long, cold and dark Swedish winters. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">ffice<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">ffice" /><o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>This last year has been very significant in this matter: last summer I went to Spain and walked the "Camino de Santiago" (450 kilometers!) in extreme heat. I never thought I would do more than a week before getting ill, but I stayed and walked for 4 weeks! And I have never felt better! I had almost no mucus! And I did my nebs only once a week (usually it's 4-5 times a week). (The salt and water loss was easily compensated with fluid replacement products in the large amounts of water I drank.) But as soon as autumn came I got sick and my mucus production never seem to halt, no matter how much I spit out. And it continued throughout the whole winter. My doctor couldn't give me a logical explanation, (in my opinion). She just concluded: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"well you live here now". <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people have suggested that it is physical exercise that makes the difference. It is true this is important and that it makes a difference. But In the summer time I don't need much exercise, there is so little mucus. In the winter time I can only keep up with exercise for maximum two weeks before I get really ill again. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>I have thought a lot about this last year's experiences and the same <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>issues discussed above and have come to a preliminary (but somewhat complex) "conclusion": <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>For asthmatic persons <U>fresh air</U> is necessary, it doesn't have to be cold air. I recently discussed this with an asthmatic person (not cf) who had the same craving for fresh air, feeling easily suffocated in closed areas. I always feel sick and tired after a journey in a car, airplane, bus or train whit AC's recycling the air (or no AC). In the summer time, I spend most of my time outdoors and in the winter time most of the time indoors. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Going for a walk in the winter time doesn't seem to help though, which leads to my second theory; <U>the cold</U> weather is bad for some reason. Infections, i.e. bacteria seem to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>thrive in cold weather. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe this is why really hot saunas usually make me feel so good . Often, going to the sauna is the simplest, fast cure when I'm coming down with a cold. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Air pollution is yet another problem; car pollution as well as dust, give me both asthma and ugly mucus. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>As for dry or humid air, I experience the same thing described by others; both extremely hot and cold dry air makes me asthmatic, as well as very humid air. But this is only if I do tough exercise like running. But when it comes to loosening the mucus I believe humid air might be better. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just remember the "tent" Cf-ers slept in, during the -70ies and -80ties. When we do our nebs it's efficient partly because it humidifies the air in the lungs. As for salty air by the sea, I believe the beneficial effects on the lungs has already been stated by scientists. (Australian surfers and old times' salt cave workers.)<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>My last theory is that the <U>sun</U> is essential in feeling god and in sustaining a god immune system. Due to lack of sun I suffer from Vitamin-D insufficiency. Research is on the way suggesting vitamin D could play a key role in the immune system. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stockholm is paradise in the summer and hell in the winter.<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Sorry for my long, long "exposé" here! <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>This last year has been very significant in this matter: last summer I went to Spain and walked the "Camino de Santiago" (450 kilometers!) in extreme heat. I never thought I would do more than a week before getting ill, but I stayed and walked for 4 weeks! And I have never felt better! I had almost no mucus! And I did my nebs only once a week (usually it's 4-5 times a week). (The salt and water loss was easily compensated with fluid replacement products in the large amounts of water I drank.) But as soon as autumn came I got sick and my mucus production never seem to halt, no matter how much I spit out. And it continued throughout the whole winter. My doctor couldn't give me a logical explanation, (in my opinion). She just concluded: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"well you live here now". <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people have suggested that it is physical exercise that makes the difference. It is true this is important and that it makes a difference. But In the summer time I don't need much exercise, there is so little mucus. In the winter time I can only keep up with exercise for maximum two weeks before I get really ill again. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>I have thought a lot about this last year's experiences and the same <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>issues discussed above and have come to a preliminary (but somewhat complex) "conclusion": <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>For asthmatic persons <U>fresh air</U> is necessary, it doesn't have to be cold air. I recently discussed this with an asthmatic person (not cf) who had the same craving for fresh air, feeling easily suffocated in closed areas. I always feel sick and tired after a journey in a car, airplane, bus or train whit AC's recycling the air (or no AC). In the summer time, I spend most of my time outdoors and in the winter time most of the time indoors. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Going for a walk in the winter time doesn't seem to help though, which leads to my second theory; <U>the cold</U> weather is bad for some reason. Infections, i.e. bacteria seem to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>thrive in cold weather. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe this is why really hot saunas usually make me feel so good . Often, going to the sauna is the simplest, fast cure when I'm coming down with a cold. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Air pollution is yet another problem; car pollution as well as dust, give me both asthma and ugly mucus. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>As for dry or humid air, I experience the same thing described by others; both extremely hot and cold dry air makes me asthmatic, as well as very humid air. But this is only if I do tough exercise like running. But when it comes to loosening the mucus I believe humid air might be better. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just remember the "tent" Cf-ers slept in, during the -70ies and -80ties. When we do our nebs it's efficient partly because it humidifies the air in the lungs. As for salty air by the sea, I believe the beneficial effects on the lungs has already been stated by scientists. (Australian surfers and old times' salt cave workers.)<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>My last theory is that the <U>sun</U> is essential in feeling god and in sustaining a god immune system. Due to lack of sun I suffer from Vitamin-D insufficiency. Research is on the way suggesting vitamin D could play a key role in the immune system. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stockholm is paradise in the summer and hell in the winter.<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Sorry for my long, long "exposé" here! <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Hi! I'm new on this forum and I'm glad to see this topic being discussed here. I live in Stockholm (Sweden) and I suffer a lot in the wintertime. I produce much more mucus and need much more IV antibiotics in the winter time, as compared to the summer time. The fluctuations in my health condition are so big I am actually considering moving to the south of France, in order to skip the long, cold and dark Swedish winters. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">ffice<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">ffice" /><o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>This last year has been very significant in this matter: last summer I went to Spain and walked the "Camino de Santiago" (450 kilometers!) in extreme heat. I never thought I would do more than a week before getting ill, but I stayed and walked for 4 weeks! And I have never felt better! I had almost no mucus! And I did my nebs only once a week (usually it's 4-5 times a week). (The salt and water loss was easily compensated with fluid replacement products in the large amounts of water I drank.) But as soon as autumn came I got sick and my mucus production never seem to halt, no matter how much I spit out. And it continued throughout the whole winter. My doctor couldn't give me a logical explanation, (in my opinion). She just concluded: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>"well you live here now". <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Some people have suggested that it is physical exercise that makes the difference. It is true this is important and that it makes a difference. But In the summer time I don't need much exercise, there is so little mucus. In the winter time I can only keep up with exercise for maximum two weeks before I get really ill again. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>I have thought a lot about this last year's experiences and the same <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>issues discussed above and have come to a preliminary (but somewhat complex) "conclusion": <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>For asthmatic persons <U>fresh air</U> is necessary, it doesn't have to be cold air. I recently discussed this with an asthmatic person (not cf) who had the same craving for fresh air, feeling easily suffocated in closed areas. I always feel sick and tired after a journey in a car, airplane, bus or train whit AC's recycling the air (or no AC). In the summer time, I spend most of my time outdoors and in the winter time most of the time indoors. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Going for a walk in the winter time doesn't seem to help though, which leads to my second theory; <U>the cold</U> weather is bad for some reason. Infections, i.e. bacteria seem to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>thrive in cold weather. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Maybe this is why really hot saunas usually make me feel so good . Often, going to the sauna is the simplest, fast cure when I'm coming down with a cold. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Air pollution is yet another problem; car pollution as well as dust, give me both asthma and ugly mucus. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>As for dry or humid air, I experience the same thing described by others; both extremely hot and cold dry air makes me asthmatic, as well as very humid air. But this is only if I do tough exercise like running. But when it comes to loosening the mucus I believe humid air might be better. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Just remember the "tent" Cf-ers slept in, during the -70ies and -80ties. When we do our nebs it's efficient partly because it humidifies the air in the lungs. As for salty air by the sea, I believe the beneficial effects on the lungs has already been stated by scientists. (Australian surfers and old times' salt cave workers.)<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>My last theory is that the <U>sun</U> is essential in feeling god and in sustaining a god immune system. Due to lack of sun I suffer from Vitamin-D insufficiency. Research is on the way suggesting vitamin D could play a key role in the immune system. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Stockholm is paradise in the summer and hell in the winter.<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Sorry for my long, long "exposé" here! <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>This last year has been very significant in this matter: last summer I went to Spain and walked the "Camino de Santiago" (450 kilometers!) in extreme heat. I never thought I would do more than a week before getting ill, but I stayed and walked for 4 weeks! And I have never felt better! I had almost no mucus! And I did my nebs only once a week (usually it's 4-5 times a week). (The salt and water loss was easily compensated with fluid replacement products in the large amounts of water I drank.) But as soon as autumn came I got sick and my mucus production never seem to halt, no matter how much I spit out. And it continued throughout the whole winter. My doctor couldn't give me a logical explanation, (in my opinion). She just concluded: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>"well you live here now". <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Some people have suggested that it is physical exercise that makes the difference. It is true this is important and that it makes a difference. But In the summer time I don't need much exercise, there is so little mucus. In the winter time I can only keep up with exercise for maximum two weeks before I get really ill again. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>I have thought a lot about this last year's experiences and the same <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>issues discussed above and have come to a preliminary (but somewhat complex) "conclusion": <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>For asthmatic persons <U>fresh air</U> is necessary, it doesn't have to be cold air. I recently discussed this with an asthmatic person (not cf) who had the same craving for fresh air, feeling easily suffocated in closed areas. I always feel sick and tired after a journey in a car, airplane, bus or train whit AC's recycling the air (or no AC). In the summer time, I spend most of my time outdoors and in the winter time most of the time indoors. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Going for a walk in the winter time doesn't seem to help though, which leads to my second theory; <U>the cold</U> weather is bad for some reason. Infections, i.e. bacteria seem to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>thrive in cold weather. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Maybe this is why really hot saunas usually make me feel so good . Often, going to the sauna is the simplest, fast cure when I'm coming down with a cold. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Air pollution is yet another problem; car pollution as well as dust, give me both asthma and ugly mucus. <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>As for dry or humid air, I experience the same thing described by others; both extremely hot and cold dry air makes me asthmatic, as well as very humid air. But this is only if I do tough exercise like running. But when it comes to loosening the mucus I believe humid air might be better. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Just remember the "tent" Cf-ers slept in, during the -70ies and -80ties. When we do our nebs it's efficient partly because it humidifies the air in the lungs. As for salty air by the sea, I believe the beneficial effects on the lungs has already been stated by scientists. (Australian surfers and old times' salt cave workers.)<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>My last theory is that the <U>sun</U> is essential in feeling god and in sustaining a god immune system. Due to lack of sun I suffer from Vitamin-D insufficiency. Research is on the way suggesting vitamin D could play a key role in the immune system. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Stockholm is paradise in the summer and hell in the winter.<o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>Sorry for my long, long "exposé" here! <o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></o<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>