Can a saw dust cause hay fever?

[starraffy]

I wonder if saw dust can cause hay fever? Anyone who has an experience?

[BobL]

Welcome to the wood work forums.

As for saw dust question, try reading the sticky in the Dust forum. DUST EXTRACTION

[chambezio]

I wonder if saw dust can cause hay fever? Anyone who has an experience?

Mate I have been in the trade (Carpenter) all my life. When I started 40 plus years ago eye, breathing and noise protection was not as high a priority as it is now. Over that time I have had a gut full of a lot of things that are not so good for you. I had Asthma for 10 years (I was 33 when I first diagnosed) it went thankfully and never came back, but getting back to your question.....it wouldn't surprise me if any saw dust did give Hayfever. Just this morning a neighbour wanted me to fit a Blackwood bench top she bought from Bunnings. The dust made me sneeze a lot. In the past when using Bw all day it made my nose bleed a few times. So I think that any protection is beneficial to our health.

[pjt]

In my experience it largley depends on the concentration of dust in the air, too much and I'll become a nose blowing puffy eyed wreck, but this also could be said for many typical allergens in the environment, mowing dry grass on a hot day for e.g.




Pete

[burraboy]

I wonder if saw dust can cause hay fever?

Yes, but you are probably safer if you think "various forms of cancer" instead of "hay fever".

[Robson Valley]

Dust concentration is not what you think.
Wake up.
1. Some species of wood dust is poisonous. Look it up in a reputable source,
not internet gibberish. Constant exposure to western red cedar dust can and will kill you.
2. Dust particle size is another killing aspect. Fecal pellets, asbestos, rock,
wood dust = all the same.

[Stewie D]

Here's one link that I've had a read through and there are a fair number of Australian woods on this list.
Wood Allergies and Toxicity | The Wood Database
I found an excellent one a couple of years ago but can't for the life of me find it again in my archives !!!

Stewie

[dabbler]

You might be thinking of this list Stewie. Courtesy of our forum owner.
Timber Health Hazards

[WillyInBris]

I wonder if saw dust can cause hay fever? Anyone who has an experience?

I suffer from hay fever and I will say yes for me but it does depend on the wood wood or weed etc Camphor laurel scent causes me issues big time.
One of the things is I find is that as soon as I start to get hay fever from something everything else will set me off.

I am also allergic to some types of grass cats idiots as well as LNP supporters .

[tea lady]

Yes. Some types of wood more than others. Which I discovered doing my first little wood project years ago. Sniffling away. But not all types do.

Black bean makes me sneeze. And and I were turning some sort of wood a few years ago that we dubbed "sneeze wood".

[jimbur]

Dust concentration is not what you think. Wake up. 1. Some species of wood dust is poisonous. Look it up in a reputable source, not internet gibberish. Constant exposure to western red cedar dust can and will kill you. 2. Dust particle size is another killing aspect. Fecal pellets, asbestos, rock, wood dust = all the same.

Yew springs to mind. All you would-be Robin Hoods out there shouldn't power sand etc without extreme precautions.

[Timless Timber]

Bitter aloes sets me off,

Allocasuarina fraseriana (WA Sheoke) as the name infers, is a hardwood that the saw dust leaves a bitter alloes taste in the back of your nose and throat, and will get the eyes and nose running.

Bitter Aloes from the Aloe Vera plant is a wonderful "instant" cure for sunburn etc raw from the plant.



For ease of application on nad sunburn - just cut a leaf off at the base - and cut across at about ay 100mm up the stem. Remove the edge spines with a sharp knife, then separate the leaf thru the middle of the gel inner section (like filleting a fish) so you have 2 flat gel faces.

Wipe gently the gel faces across the sun burnt area and in about 5 minutes 90% of the painful sting will be gone. Repeat and the remainder will be gone.

Don't wash it off straight away - leave it a few hours.

Any you get on your hands if it gets near your mouth you'll soon recognize the same bitter aloe taste as the sheoke sawdust leaves behind in you nose and throat.

Another bad one is turning black boy (OK grass tree) stumps, that stuffs carcinogenic.
Xanthorrhoea



But the results can be pleasing if you can stand the skin irritation & eye irritation and sneezing etc.



I guess there area lot more irritant species. Those are just the ones I am personally familiar with.

[rrich]

This came as an article in a trade publication.

Reference pages 40-41 as the start of the article.

The article is about law suits but there is quite a bit of information about dust in general.

[BobL]

This came as an article in a trade publication.

Reference pages 40-41 as the start of the article.

The article is about law suits but there is quite a bit of information about dust in general.

Errrr . . . . . . link seems to be missing ?

[rrich]

Sorry mates, the link is gone.