Effects of HEAT(ODOR) from desk top computer.......hmmmm.......

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would the " fumes(?) " coming from the top of a desk top computer

possibly be toxic to our respiratory system?. I'm on mine for 6 hrs

daily......(at home). The weather in NC is around day 75 and 55

night,,,,not much humidity...but the mold gathered in my house last

summer with high humidity, soooo. Oh well.....Steve

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.....am I the ONLY one with BURNING eyes and throat here? Thanks Steve.........

would the " fumes(?) " coming from the top of a desk top computer

possibly be toxic...........

Steve - I have had the burning eyes and throat - and lungs. Also, eyes crusted

with junk in the morning. Have also been sensitive to odor/fumes of laptop

computer and even desktop. You are not nuts, unfortunately it is real.

Sue

[Guest guest]

If you are beginning to run your heat at night you are probably getting a boat

load of dust burning off of the coils. I know I did in Richmond before I turned

it up high and left the house for several hours while leaving the windows open

to air the house.///Sounds more like the computer problem may be EMF related.

shybasset <shybasset@...> wrote: would the " fumes(?) " coming from

the top of a desk top computer

possibly be toxic to our respiratory system?. I'm on mine for 6 hrs

daily......(at home). The weather in NC is around day 75 and 55

night,,,,not much humidity...but the mold gathered in my house last

summer with high humidity, soooo. Oh well.....Steve

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Your reaction to your computer is real. I had the same thing. It is

caused by the chemicals used in the manufacturing of the computer

actually " cooking " from the heat generated by the computer, and

releasing the vapors that you are reacting to. It is also the

computer version of " new car smell " . I tried out many computers, in

my search for one that would not make me sick. It wasn't until I

noticed that I got the same reaction the split second that I pulled

some new computers out of the box, that I realized that I had a two -

fold problem. One problem was with the " computer " , and the other

problem was with the " new " . The way I eventually solved the problem,

was by trying out " old " computers until I found one that had used up

most of its " new car smell " I'm now using an old IBM Thinkpad

Laptop, which is O.K. since, at 63 years of age, I am not

quite " state of the art " myself. I estimate that 95% of my chemical

reaction is gone. All I get is a minor nose reaction. No other

serious problems. If you want to give it a try, just put up some

notices in your neighborhood saying: " Trade in your junky old laptop

for a brand new state-of-the-art computer at no charge " . You should

get plenty of inquiries. Select the oldest, most chemical-free one

that is offered and trade them for your present computer that is

making you sick. Remember, I'm not guaranteeing that this will work

for you. But it did work for me. I would suggest that, before

you " trade down " for your present computer, you get it out of your

house for a month, and go " cold-turkey " without a computer, to see

if the computer is really the cause of your reaction. To make an

effective evaluation, you would have to stay away from ALL COMPUTERS

EVERYWHERE for that one month experiment. Good Luck!

--- In , Sue ston <thecanaries@...>

wrote:

>

> ....am I the ONLY one with BURNING eyes and throat here? Thanks

Steve......... would the " fumes(?) " coming from the top

of a desk top computer

> possibly be toxic...........

> Steve - I have had the burning eyes and throat - and lungs. Also,

eyes crusted with junk in the morning. Have also been sensitive to

odor/fumes of laptop computer and even desktop. You are not nuts,

unfortunately it is real.

>

> Sue

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a word, yes..

Hot plastics can and do emit toxic fumes..

That is a separate issue to mold exposure..

The symptoms are different, though..

Its a separate *toxic* issue..

For any of you who are not aware of the importance of endocrine

disruptors, phthalates, bisphenol a, PCBs, etc. see

http://www.ourstolenfurture.org .

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Oops.. that URL was:

http://ourstolenfuture.org/

Don't sit around in an unventilated room with a lot of computer

equipment.. or plastics of any kind.. the same cautions apply to TVs

and any other applicance that uses plastic and produces heat..

Don't cook with plastic cookware (no plastic is 'microwave safe' IMO),

don't drink water that has stood awhile out of soft plastic bottles,

esp. ones that have gotten hot in a closed car..

There are lots of other cautions that are worth observing wrt plastics..

Americans have very high levels of these plastics in our bodies.. its

clearly causing all sorts of health issues.. See this month's National

Geographic for a good article on the toxic burdens we carry around.

I am sure that the mold poisoners would LOVE ( or perhaps 'are

desperate to' is a better phrase) to blame mold illnesses on something

else, but the issues we discuss here are related to buildings and

water intrusion and the consequences thereof.

[Guest guest]

Is this something that should be done daily? Or just once

at the beginning of the season?

Cathe