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How Safe Is Your Christmas Tree?
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Study: Mold may make you sick
- Duration 3:03
- Date Dec 19, 2011
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Police say here's sinuses are killing -- your -- your wheezing -- winner cold maybe maybe something like that you blame that the December chill.
But get this -- Christmas tree.
Might be making you sick.
Doctor may now present senior managing editor of foxnews.com.
-- Fox News -- eighteen were at this does not sound very Christmas.
You're kid at Christmas trees syndrome C right underneath my face rate since I -- people on our -- -- is he kidding.
I wish I was I kidding but there is so you know there is such a thing as Christmas -- as syndrome is basically.
When you are very allergic to the moles that are found in a lot of Christmas trees this was as again and you publication.
Here in upstate New York in the journal analogy would which will -- they did a steady and they found that.
A lot of these trees they have a lot of -- you bring him inside your house I need you very allergic to -- have and that kind of evolved allergens you can get very.
Executives in the -- you have all those needles on the floor yeah Eritrean and I think you know other outlets indicated that but it's -- -- and -- the -- you know the market.
Three could that cause they say that there is very humid you know as the same kind of valid -- that you would argue people that are allergic now in the winter to win you'll go into -- forest.
There's a lot of different kinds of -- -- and then Fung guy that I found most can be alarming to people can get really sick from all of us some of that some of them so when you bring the tree inside your house if you if you have a lot of these analogies is gonna make it worse.
So there's a couple of tips you can do if you do buy -- three.
I you can tell that whatever store you've minded from that they can wash it down a lot of them do spray and spray it off all the wise taken home hose it down let it air dry you can bring it back can you see him giving you solutions.
This is a hot you can still have to -- And also -- led the -- stand for many many days and a lot of people say I'll take it out on you know by you know generate fifteen -- the case may be.
Stick to the twelve days of Christmas and then throw it out because as they dry out with the heat of the apartment on the house it really for -- a lot of these things and they can make things.
As for you if you have an elderly person in your home -- you have a child without -- and you just avoid.
And now all I wouldn't have goal that you see I'm gonna do a lot of hate mail now I don't know I don't you know it look if you really really very -- For sure you already know -- you have a lot analogies so.
Yes that might be a problem but you know again you -- buy an artificial -- -- -- nothing wrong with that.
As long as the artificial tree you have a five to ten years -- -- erratic because that has a lot of does that could be problematic too.
But you've got an artificial yeah trainer half -- -- have a real 3-D decorated does your -- they won't let -- -- happening apple goes right it was up to me would be no they don't dig them they they spend time doing -- they don't want to -- but that's -- -- -- -- only my glass -- -- thing Hewitt says I think I have I got -- they had -- -- the holidays people a little -- Be careful of PGA he -- isn't you know Christmas traffic -- out panic at the.
You can read this history syndrome watch out for if -- hopefully can just enjoy it absolutely -- Christmas actually and took place at the.