Congestion

It is cotton ginning season in West Texas http://www.cotton.org/ncga/.  Cotton ginning causes the air in Lubbock to filled with very small, impossible to see particles of fiber.  When the wind picks up, as it has recently, the wind spreads that very fine fiber throughout the area. This fiber is amazing.  The area around a cotton gin becomes covered with what looks like hoar frost, but is cotton lint.

For many people in this part of the world, breathing becomes problematic.  People with asthma are especially sensitive. But the reality is, even people who do not have breathing problems notice the effects of the fiber in the air.

There really is not much to be done about this.  It is a reality of living in West Texas, as is dust. So, we deal with congestion.  I suppose medication is available.  But one of the reasons for the congestion is that hour breathing system is collecting the fibers that need to enter into our body, and protecting the body.  If blowing your nose clears the congestion, why would you medicate it?

If blowing your nose does not work, if you continue to wheeze throughout the day, or breathing becomes so compromised that functioning is effected, then it is time to see the doctor.