Getting sick on the road

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  1. LouisFred54

    LouisFred54 Light Load Member

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    I’m noticing a pattern. Every time I go to a new place for home time, and it rains, I wake up with a sick feeling in the back of my throat after waking up. Sometimes I cough up phlegm it gets so back and I have to take zinc tablets or muscinex max to make me feel normal. I can’t be the only one this happens to so what can I do to stop this.
     
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    New place for home time, what does that mean?
    Take your home time in a drier climate and quit getting rained on.
     
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    STOP IT.

    It is not home time in the "New place"

    Go back to your old stomping grounds or somewhere dry with no rain at all. Arizona or Nevada comes to mind. Taos NM would be good.

    Your body is accurately reacting to the environment you are subjecting to it. Once you start running a temperature you are too sick to continue on and need a few days off either in a hotel, hospital or at home. Most drivers by instinct (Myself included, been there done that) point the truck towards home when sick. Freight and Appointments have no meaning.)

    IF your company knows you are sick a while, they send a team to get your trailer, tell you to go somewhere and get well fast. Don't be sick too long.

    For you in particular exactly as you wrote with being all wet. Stop it. Go somewhere else dry.

    I grew up in the wet, it;s not a problem. It's when it's dry that is a problem for me.
     
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    mold.
     
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    If you are sleeping in that truck and aint cleaned it in some time.. get yourself 10% bleach mixed with pinesol, roll of shop towels and start wiping everything inside that thing.

    Remove any offending liquids or wet. All surfaces need clean, get your laundry done right, pull that matress, pillow etc. go over it all.

    I could say go to Flagstaff south in the fall before winter cold, open your windows with screens and go to bed there in the rest area. However the rest area is closed permanently on 17 south. There is a forest of pine. And the air could not be more perfect for sleeping.
     
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    Everybody is different and has different needs. My daughter and her husband both have asthma bad, worse for him. Several years ago I put them in a truck and sent them otr, I told them to find a place they could live and breathe, first load I sent them was to fairbanks, they like big cities so settled close to anchorage. lol
     
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    Sounds like this truck needs a serious deep cleaning.
    Agree with Ridgeline, you have something growing in there. How old is the mattress? Good place for nasty stuff.
     
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    That was the Baker test that ran away on yeild didnt it?

    However that appears to be a hydrogen. So a double reaction bomb.

    Imagine if you could salt that with a ton of cobalt...
     
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    If it was the truck, why would it only be doing it on his home time, that don't seem right.
     
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