Toxic odors and perfume products

[cindy]

An old thread resurfaced today regarding candles, scented products, I wanted to share this information with you....

The lungs of a bird/finch are much smaller the insides of their lungs are more sensitive than ours and slower....our avian vet recommends no candles or no perfume sprayed in the house. I out weigh what is more imprtant, their litle lives or a pretty smell in the house. My birds win hands down. If you burn them in one room and run central air or heat the scent and whatever is burning off is going through the whole house. The particles float through the air as Sally said and are deposited on walls, furniture and inhales. The article below explains.

Also the Glade room scents with the little fans, oil plug ins, sprays, automatic air freshners...big no no.

http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/mcs/candles.html

This article explains it from a bird's perspective including the fact that they have to complete two inhalations for one respiratory cycle, which means they hold the toxins in their lungs longer.

http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/dangerou ... taminates/

Birds may not die suddenly but it could happen or it could happen over time, it is a painful death. Kind of like lung cancer in a human. It could possibly shorten their lives. Anything you inhale, including the burn off from candles and air freshners effects both humans and aninmals, bird's systems just show signs of it before humans do. You figure if it is burning off into the air it has to go somewhere, organic or not...those deposits are inhaled on on surfaces within the home and cages.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Keep-Your-Par ... n&id=95747

The above article suggests beeswax but the particles are still airborn...also one trick we did when selling our home take a pan of water and heat it on the stove add a few cinnamon sticks or vanilla extract to the water boil, for a few minutes, the smell is like warm cookies...this is also mentioned above in this article.

Just bear in mind the scents from candles linger and stay inbedded in clothing, furniture, the smell alone could be an irritant.

Still unsure, call and avian vet office and they can help with what is safe or not.

[Foosa101]

Excellent post, Cindy!! I would have never thought about how harmful a plug in could be. I think I am going to get me some Cinnamon sticks!!

[cindy]

I found it interesting that a bird has to exhale twice to complete one cycle of breathing, 1 time in two times out.

[annague]

Cindy, I've seen a couple of remarks before and of course, knew about the harmful chemicals but it was enlightening to read your post and realize that plug-in's etc (even somewhere else -- my house has 2 floors) are also a no-no.

Thanks for the great post and the information!!

[cindy]

You're welcome Anna.