Sensitivity to fumes

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Is this more likely to be a hypo thing, a result of CO poisoning or

just lucky-ol-me?

In the past 10 years I have become increasingly sensitive to

volatile fumes like paint, petrol, solvents, bleach especially

chlorinated pools, some aftershaves (Lynx is the worst) and

perfumes, household aerosol sprays, and air fresheners.

The symptoms start off with mild burning to my eyes and nose and

prickling skin - normally I get away from the source at this point.

Last night I attended a trial session of an adult education class

held in a class room of the school which my son is due to attend

from September 2009. The whole building stank strongly of oil of

orange. I don't know where the fumes were coming from, whether it

was an air freshener pumping through the airconditioning or whether

it was a wet vapour rising from the carpets. It was overpowering and

I am going to approach the school about it today. I need to know the

name of the product so I can phone ahead and avoid public buildings

which use it.

In that room I developed a blinding head ache, and my nose began to

burn and blister. My eyes smarted and I started to develop an asthma

attack. I had to use my inhaler and rinse my eyes as soon as I got

home. Then a familiar lump came up in my face and is still there

today - I always get that lump before I get ill or if I have been

exposed to something which is harmful to me.

The odd thing is that NOBODY else seemed to be suffering at all. My

reaction, however, was so bad that I may have to consider sending my

son to a different school.

Does anyone else here have problems like this?

I'm raising the question on the main forum as I don't know whether

or not it is a thyroid thing. If it turns out that hardly any of you

have similar issues, then it implies my predicament could well be a

result of my CO poisoning. Apparently chemical sensitivity is a

known side effect of that.

Tracey