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I spend eight hours every single day exposed to pesticides. Specifically fungicides—chemicals like thiophanate methyl, tebuconazole, fludioxonil, carboxin, and so on—whose manufacturers I won't even dignify with a comment.
I wear a filtered respirator and surgical gloves whenever I’m handling them, and I make sure to ventilate the room, which is normally climate-controlled and everything, but I still find traces of the stuff in my nostrils. It’s driving me insane.😢
Maybe I should clarify: I don't have my hands elbow-deep in chemicals. My job is quality control for treated seed material, which contains a certain percentage of indirectly colored dust. That dust floats. I can see the macro-particles, but the finer ones? Those are definitely being inhaled and ending up in my lungs... and unfortunately, not just there.
A couple of years ago, I had a case of herpes that refused to heal for over two weeks (normally it clears up in 4 or 5 days). It was constantly bleeding despite the mask keeping the dust away, and it just wouldn't scab over. I don't care much about aesthetics, but the sensation of constant exposure to poison while having an open wound is not pleasant.
Is there any way—aside from finding better preventive measures than the mediocre equipment provided by AT&T (I actually buy my own gear because what they issue is nowhere near sufficient to protect my body)—to also treat what has already entered my system? Does anyone know of any remedies, like the milk people used to drink in printing plants? This isn't a joke, and it's not something I want inside my body. A lot of people can't or won't grasp the gravity of this, but I don't care. At the end of the day, you look out for yourself.
Thanks in advance.👍
I wear a filtered respirator and surgical gloves whenever I’m handling them, and I make sure to ventilate the room, which is normally climate-controlled and everything, but I still find traces of the stuff in my nostrils. It’s driving me insane.😢
Maybe I should clarify: I don't have my hands elbow-deep in chemicals. My job is quality control for treated seed material, which contains a certain percentage of indirectly colored dust. That dust floats. I can see the macro-particles, but the finer ones? Those are definitely being inhaled and ending up in my lungs... and unfortunately, not just there.
A couple of years ago, I had a case of herpes that refused to heal for over two weeks (normally it clears up in 4 or 5 days). It was constantly bleeding despite the mask keeping the dust away, and it just wouldn't scab over. I don't care much about aesthetics, but the sensation of constant exposure to poison while having an open wound is not pleasant.
Is there any way—aside from finding better preventive measures than the mediocre equipment provided by AT&T (I actually buy my own gear because what they issue is nowhere near sufficient to protect my body)—to also treat what has already entered my system? Does anyone know of any remedies, like the milk people used to drink in printing plants? This isn't a joke, and it's not something I want inside my body. A lot of people can't or won't grasp the gravity of this, but I don't care. At the end of the day, you look out for yourself.
Thanks in advance.👍