Question: i have reactive airway syndrome with the Rinnai heater in my low income section 8 Burlington, Vermont Housing Authority apartment. i've been in here 3 months and can't breathe without coughing. i have a taste and smell of ammonia in me and wonder why? i fear a neighbor who is a chinese acupuncturist may be a break and enter quack may have punctured me several times. i wonder he's macing the ventilator. i 've no idea why i have to cough all the time in my apartment and taste ammonia. can you help with some idea of what's going on with me?

i'll mention the sputum test etc to my doctor today when i so to his office. i'm disappointed with your answer. i thought maybe the ammonia taste is from a nearby apartment who may have filled their heater or the gas line with ammonia. anyway, Vermont is a place that believes in clean unpolluted air; i am without any prescribed or unprescribed drugs, i don't drink or smoke anything at all, or commit crimes. the only psychological problems i've had voluntary comittment for assistance with sobriety in and about the year 1983. was mistakenly jailed in psych unit 2006 or 7 for a traumatic eye injury. i'm disappointed you don't mention why i might have taste of ammonia. this is an horrible new experience living with this kind of heater; i believe some authorities are lying to me, for instance this Rinnai heater looks as if it predates the second world war although i have been asked to believe it only 10 years old. this is a problem of abject poverty. if i could afford to go elsewhere or even move to another apartment in my own community, i would have no congestion using 2 rolls toilet paper every 14 hours for sputum, and exhaustion and pain from coughing coninuously. i never had this befofre moving into this apartment. this is sickening lack of care and understanding from people in my community who would rather say there might be something wrong with me and uphold the less than honest landlord.