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With some deer in the freezer, I will stop my hunt an hour before dark sometimes. Messing around in the dark with lights and changing out gloves & clothes, separating contaminated items from non-contaminated, can be too much a chore I want to engage in while I'm still doing this for fun. So, that is still the hinderance of my condition.
Same with my son... Mule deer dander got him this year...
I was on a hunt a few years ago and we had six bucks hanging on "The Buck Pole". When we were leaving, we took the bucks off of the hang and put them in our trucks or trailers. While driving the five-hour trip home my friend kept scratching his head and body. I looked at his scalp and there were deer ticks running all over. We pulled off the road and had him pull his shirt off. I picked over 30 deer ticks off of him. A few years later he was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.
The worst place Ive ever hunted where I experienced and got ticks on me (and they were on my brother too) surprisingly was SW Illinois.
Okay....Epipen...noted and added to the list!!!
I've worked as a Safety Officer for a large hospital network for over 30 years and in that time have fit-tested well over 1,000 people for N-95s and other types of tight-fitting respirators. A "100-series mask" (respirator) is actually even more efficient than an N-95. The "95" part of the name refers to the percent of particles 0.1 microns or bigger that it filters out. So an N-95 will filter out 95% of those small particles whereas a '100-series' respirator will filter out 100% of them. The difference between those two numbers however isn't significant in my book. There's also the fit of the respirator to consider. If you're just wearing one for dust or COVID protection in a non-hospital setting, fit testing the respirator isn't that big a deal but if you wear a respirator to avoid a serious allergic reaction, than fit is important. Most N-95/100 respirators come in different sizes and it would be difficult for the average person to conduct a proper fit test on themselves. Our hospitals recently switched to the 3M 1870+ which only comes in one size and we've found fits about 95% of the people we've tried it on. Another advantage of this respirator is that it doesn't muffle your voice when you speak through it.
WOW! Awesome information. Thanks! I was fitted years ago for HAZMAT response prep and they would put a bag over our heads and spray banana oil in the bag. If we could smell the oil, we didn't have a correct fit.
Just don't walk past the monkey cage at the zoo for 3 weeks...they'd all be going BANANAS....over you!
If you are allergic they can go away, for awhile. But anaphylaxis can come back and get you bad. I'm supposed to carry an epi pen too. Mine is for shellfish and bee stings. It ain't fun when your throat starts closing on you.
What your daughter has is a mild allegic reaction. I'm allergic to cats and dogs also, we have both and both sleep in my room lol. I think they're trying to kill me. If you're prescribed an epipen it's because your reactions are considered potentially life threatening. Benadryl when you need an epipen can end very badly.
There we guys who said they did smell the oil, but lied, so they didn't have to keep getting sprayed over and over!
