11-10-2008, 02:26 PM
When we were renting out our ohana, I got an enquiry from someone living in Kihei who was ill from the cane burning. She wanted to come over to get away from it when it was happening.
Combustion of any kind is hard on people with asthma. Cigarettes, burning cane, burning paper ... the bronchial tubes can't handle it ... and some people who don't have asthma to begin with will develop it due to the exposure.
ed to add, but she didn't have respiratory illness. She had developed environmental sensitivities ... where you get chronic fatigue, pains, flu symptoms, Gulf war syndrome variation.
Combustion of any kind is hard on people with asthma. Cigarettes, burning cane, burning paper ... the bronchial tubes can't handle it ... and some people who don't have asthma to begin with will develop it due to the exposure.
ed to add, but she didn't have respiratory illness. She had developed environmental sensitivities ... where you get chronic fatigue, pains, flu symptoms, Gulf war syndrome variation.