12-31-2005, 08:35 PM
Adias
<Is Asthma a big problem on the BIG Island as a result?>
I have moderate to severe asthma with allergies and can not stay for long or Live in the Kona district. When I was there for a month (I live in TX.)I got headaches everyday from it. I talked to the Dr. about it and she said yes it can be a real difficult problem there. Depends I suppose on the Puna side just how affected you are and knowing that there aren't many days there with it per year, it would most likely be your lessor cause of Asthma, the molds where it is wet if you have allergies to them and most asthmatics are bothered by them would be my worst and is a very common trigger. What are Your triggers for asthma?
Then you should find out if those are present where you will move to.
<How do people protect themselves?> Special teas made up by herbalists, The people who are the ownwers of Multi facetted houses Claire and sorry I forget their last name, but she is a herb specialist ans she makes the teas which used to be availble at Long's too. The other things are more obvious, stay out of it, stay indoors in the A/C, wear a mask, don't eat veggies that have it falling on them, get water that hasn't had it contaminated with it or a great water filtrations system. Common sense stuff like that. Hve you been tested and gone through asthma education or done research on the net about the disease? Because there is a wealth of info that it would be real hard to present here and we could only hit on a small portion of it.
<Are there any type of monitors which measure the air?> Puna has a station that in known for taking the air quality tests for the world! Do a google on it and you will come up with it.
When you find Claire's last name and the puna monitor for air Quality, could you please post them back here so others will know about them also. That would be a nice touch to help others too!
Check out the USGS for manu questions that I see posed here often, they have such a wealth of information here about waht types of things you are asking and many other people too..they even tell you about earthquakes and proper foundations, the chance of collapse of certain types of water catchment tanks and so on...
Theyare the EXperts in knowing what the best answers for you would be to make some of these decisions that you want to make your land purchase based on. I just gooled it and it brought up more sites on this subjects that you posed but this is a great beginning here....or you can put them in google and find more also.....it is a great find!
Enjoy!!
Lucy
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/contents.html
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLanai
<Is Asthma a big problem on the BIG Island as a result?>
I have moderate to severe asthma with allergies and can not stay for long or Live in the Kona district. When I was there for a month (I live in TX.)I got headaches everyday from it. I talked to the Dr. about it and she said yes it can be a real difficult problem there. Depends I suppose on the Puna side just how affected you are and knowing that there aren't many days there with it per year, it would most likely be your lessor cause of Asthma, the molds where it is wet if you have allergies to them and most asthmatics are bothered by them would be my worst and is a very common trigger. What are Your triggers for asthma?
Then you should find out if those are present where you will move to.
<How do people protect themselves?> Special teas made up by herbalists, The people who are the ownwers of Multi facetted houses Claire and sorry I forget their last name, but she is a herb specialist ans she makes the teas which used to be availble at Long's too. The other things are more obvious, stay out of it, stay indoors in the A/C, wear a mask, don't eat veggies that have it falling on them, get water that hasn't had it contaminated with it or a great water filtrations system. Common sense stuff like that. Hve you been tested and gone through asthma education or done research on the net about the disease? Because there is a wealth of info that it would be real hard to present here and we could only hit on a small portion of it.
<Are there any type of monitors which measure the air?> Puna has a station that in known for taking the air quality tests for the world! Do a google on it and you will come up with it.
When you find Claire's last name and the puna monitor for air Quality, could you please post them back here so others will know about them also. That would be a nice touch to help others too!
Check out the USGS for manu questions that I see posed here often, they have such a wealth of information here about waht types of things you are asking and many other people too..they even tell you about earthquakes and proper foundations, the chance of collapse of certain types of water catchment tanks and so on...
Theyare the EXperts in knowing what the best answers for you would be to make some of these decisions that you want to make your land purchase based on. I just gooled it and it brought up more sites on this subjects that you posed but this is a great beginning here....or you can put them in google and find more also.....it is a great find!
Enjoy!!
Lucy
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/contents.html
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLanai
Lucy
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!