For the past few months I’ve been having major vision problems due to allergies. Not pollen or animal allergies but.. smelly stuff allergies.
I share an apartment with my mother who just doesn’t seem to understand the concept that I’m allergic to overly smelly things. Glade plugins and anything vanilla are my two worst allergy causers. Though real vanilla doesn’t bother me, I can even eat and digest it normally. I just can’t smell the man-made smelly kind.
So off and on my eyes have been swelled shut, watering, burning, itching, my nose dripping like a faucet or stopped up to the point where I look like I’m in constant awe of something in order to collect oxygen in my lungs.
I knew this morning when I woke up that she’d put something new in the apartment as I couldn’t see anything and focusing was out of the question. Hell, my vision is still impaired at the moment and it’ll be a few hours before it comes back to me in full swing but at least I’m not hurting anymore.
I searched the apartment top to bottom to find the smelly implant she’d left to no avail, thank god she stumbled (not literally) home a little bit ago and I interrogated her forcing her to reveal the plugin hiding spot behind a wing-backed chair in her bedroom.
The label you ask? French vanilla.. my two worst allergy causers rolled into one evil plugin.
I really hope she’ll figure out she cant keep burning those things around me. It’s so bad that the contraptions can’t be anywhere in the apartment, not even in the living room. They straight up fuck me up, for lack of better words and terminology.
Glade – kiss my ass, you make evil things for mentally unstable people to torture me with *growls*
And yes, my mother is mentally unstable, quite literally but that’s a story, or should I say novel series, for another day.
For now I’m just happy to be able to see, let’s see how long it lasts before she drags something new home this time.
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i agree! anything too stinky can kiss my mother fucking arse… except certain incense. anyway! i hope it stays unevil for a while <3
Comment by tristian curio.awardspace.com on February 5th, 2009 @ 12:41 am
Very similar thing happened to me when my wife plugged in two of these evil Glade airwick things. Geez Glade I hate you.
Comment by Bryan on March 6th, 2010 @ 11:41 am
They ARE a health hazard. They CAUSE Upper Respiratory Inflammation! Chronic exposure can and likely will eventually cause COPD.
They have formaldahyde and other cancer-causing chemicals in them in an oil base that you breathe into your lungs which is the most highly vascular part of your body. The chemicals are absorbed into the bloodstream through the vasculature of the lungs.
The FDA does not regulate them but in the tiniest print on the J&J web site, you will find a listing of these things that states they cause upper respiratory inflammation. I am a radiographer…I see hundreds of COPD cases who can’t figure out why they have it. COPD is caused by chronic upper respiratory inflammation. (ie plug ins exposure) They are deadly for asthmatics and cause allergic reaction in those with allergies.
People need to consider what they are breathing in. Plug ins have formaldehyde and several cancer causing chemicals in them but because they are not regulated by the FDA, nobody can do anything about it except not buy them and spread the word. You can lobby your senators. You can print out the ingredients and research the horrible things they are really putting in those things and humans and animals are breathing into their lungs and thus getting absorbed into their bloodstream.
I fought the school district to have them removed from the entire district because my allergy-ridden, asthmatic son was getting very, very sick.
I had them in my home when my son was an infant until I suddenly had allergies and we both had chronic unexplained upper respiratory and sinus infections. The allergist told me to get rid of those damned things because they make you so sick and worse as time goes by.
I babysit for someone who has them and I am quitting – can’t take it. She started using them a few months ago and now her 9 yr old dog has to get allergy shots and her baby (who’s room it is right next to) has constant sinus issues. I told her about them but she didn’t believe me. I told another friend who thought she had to get rid of her cat she thought she was suddenly terribly allergic to. She got rid of the plug-ins and they are getting better now.
Comment by KCisko on June 7th, 2010 @ 5:10 pm