Allergies

Food such as nuts, chocolate, eggs, orange, juice, fish, milk, peanut butter.

Pollens from flowers, trees, grasses, hay, ragweed, mould spores.

Animals such as rabbits, cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, chickens, birds.

Feather pillows, down comforters.

Insect parts such as those from dead cockroaches.

Household Products

Vapors from cleaning solvents, paint, paint thinners, liquid chlorine bleach.

Sprays from furniture polish, starch, cleaners, room deodorizers.

Spray deodorants, perfumes, hair sprays, talcum powder, scented cosmetics.

Dusts

Cloth upholstered furniture, carpets, draperies that gather dust.

Brooms and dusters that raise dust.

Dirty filters on hot air furnaces and air conditioners that put dust into the air.

On the Job

Dusts, vapours or fumes from:

*wood products (western red cedar, some pine and birch woods, mahogany)

*Flour, cereals, grains, coffee, tea, papain

*Metals (platinum, chromium, nickel sulphate, soldering fumes)

*Cotton, flax, hemp

Mould from decaying hay

Weather

Blasts of cold air

Excessive humidity

Changes in seasons

Air Pollution

Traffic jams

Parking jams

Smoke-filled rooms

Exercise

Wheezing may begin after overexertion.

Infections

Colds, other viruses, bronchitis, tonsillitis, sore throat.

Nighttime

Lying down, tiredness, accumulating mucus.

Emotions

Fear, anger, frustration, laughing too hard, crying, coughing.

Smoke

From cigarettes, cigars, pipes either yours or somebody else's.