Best place to get away from servere mold & allergies (please help) (cold, health issue)

[virtualcomposer]

My wife has really bad allergies and has had bronchial irritation ever since the spring of this year. We live in Spring Hill, TN and she's never had this problem before. We went to Florida this August and all of it went away. We came back, a day later she's coughing up stuff again. It helps a little to have it really cold in the house and her coughing and bronchial conjestion is almost gone. Based on the fact that when we went to Florida and we also visited Kansas, it goes away means that TN is a bad place to live with allergies, spores and mold. We were thinking of moving next year to another place like Colorado or Montana which I've researched and seen that most people don't have a whole lot of allergies there. What is your opinion. What states are really good to live in with people and servere allergies? I've also heard that Spring Hill, TN and Memphis, TN are the worst places to live if mold, spores, and allergies are a problem. What is your opinion? We need to do something soon because I really hate seeing my wife constantly coughing.

[Laura707]

It has been my personal experience that whenever I move from one state to another, that my allergies go crazy until they adapt to the new place and it takes mine about 5 years to adapt.

I lived in Florida for about 6 years and they still bothered me over there. I had heard that if you get local honey from the area you live in, it helps build up resistance to that areas allergies so that is what I did for a long time. I can't swear it helped but the allergies did settle down when I did that.

[mrstewart]

I have heard that Colorado is a good place and Arizona, but don't know if that's true.

Avoid Virginia, that's for sure!

[virtualcomposer]

Originally Posted by Laura707

It has been my personal experience that whenever I move from one state to another, that my allergies go crazy until they adapt to the new place and it takes mine about 5 years to adapt.

I lived in Florida for about 6 years and they still bothered me over there. I had heard that if you get local honey from the area you live in, it helps build up resistance to that areas allergies so that is what I did for a long time. I can't swear it helped but the allergies did settle down when I did that.

Well, my wife's been eating the local honey here for 1.5 years and it hasn't helped. We've lived here about this long and it's getting pretty severe. It now seems to be turning into chronic bronchitis. When we went to Florida and Kansas, it went away so I know it's not a health issue, it's a severe reaction and Memphis and Knoxville, TN are known as the worst places to live for allergies and mold. We live in between those cities and the mold count is always high year round. We've got to make a change within the next 6-8 months or her health and immune system is going to start really paying for it. Finding a media job is also the priority. I know for me, I would have severe, not as bad as hers, but severe allergies and hack constantly in Kansas and Virginia when I lived there. I don't have a problem here in TN but she does.

[virtualcomposer]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

I have heard that Colorado is a good place and Arizona, but don't know if that's true.

Avoid Virginia, that's for sure!

Yeah, I like AZ to but there's no snow there and I don't think she would like the heat. Cold seems to help the problem she has. When we crank the air condition up, the flym in her bronchial tubes seem to almost vanish and she stops coughing. 10 minutes after she goes outside, she hacking and coughing the whole day.

[matthews1965]

I can relate! I live in fabulous VA, in a valley. Every weekend we go to our boat and things improve or go away - then, like clockwork it all comes back on the way home. My husband used to think it was in my mind but he now has allergies and knows it is actually physical. I just saw a new product on cnbc. A father invented this for his daughter. It is a gel that is applied around the nose and just below - it is supposed to trap allergans. I think it is a coricidin (sp?) product. I'm going to look for it today - I'll get back with you.

[virtualcomposer]

does it block mold to?

[adventuregurl]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

I have heard that Colorado is a good place and Arizona, but don't know if that's true.

Avoid Virginia, that's for sure!

Many people have problems with allergies in AZ, you wouldn't think it but there is mold, and lots of wind storms which blow around dust.

[mrstewart]

Originally Posted by adventuregurl

Many people have problems with allergies in AZ, you wouldn't think it but there is mold, and lots of wind storms which blow around dust.

I never thought of that...I had just heard AZ was a good place!

[mrstewart]

Originally Posted by matthews1965

I can relate! I live in fabulous VA, in a valley. Every weekend we go to our boat and things improve or go away - then, like clockwork it all comes back on the way home. My husband used to think it was in my mind but he now has allergies and knows it is actually physical. I just saw a new product on cnbc. A father invented this for his daughter. It is a gel that is applied around the nose and just below - it is supposed to trap allergans. I think it is a coricidin (sp?) product. I'm going to look for it today - I'll get back with you.

When we go to our house on the Cheaspeake Bay my allergies seems to be better. Maybe it is the salt air..