breathing in dust now nose feels weird

[Brad10]

I was at work today and we had to put a furnace in and where it was was a crawl space and my boss and I weren't thinking it was going to be that dusty but it was, I was getting fresh air constantly but now tonight it feel weird to breath I don't know if it's dry or what but I'm panicking now :(

[MyNameIsTerry]

Probably irritation. I get it with hayfever (not much these days luckily as my hayfever is very low level now) but I've also had irritation from dusty environments and it's similar. If you feel a bit stuffed up, sneezy or dry then I would think it's just this.

Irritation might mean some histamine response which means some inflammation and release of mucus. Like when you have a cold, it changes how it feels to use those passages.