Re: Is mold really that bad?


delshannon@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have some mold in my carpet at the entrance to my apartment where
> parts of the ceiling
> fall this past summer following a tremendous rainfall.

I didn't even finish reading the rest because I wan tto tell you my
experience. I am extremely sensitive to mold. I got lingering low
grade fever from the school builidings at the university I was going
to. The student health center was quiet about the word "mold" while I
was suffering. They even sent me to a lab for some unrelated chemical
tets. (mkes me angry when I think about it.) I cleaned my not so cheap
apartment thoroughly and I couldn't see the pretty building where most
of my classes were at as a dangerous zone and didn't contemplate the
possibility of the building full of mold even when I wasn't having the
fever during school breaks.

It wasn't until after much suffering - my immune system became so weak
fighting this all the time that it made my recovering from breast
surgery so hard while the surgery weakend my body and made me more
susceptible of mold - that I put 2 and 2 together and told the health
center that the "mold" in these building were thwe cuase of my fever.
No one even acted surprised and each of the staff started admitting
about the mold problem.

Even though you are not susceptible greatly at this moment, and your
body may be fighing it well, why take a chance? Beside, your guests
might not be like you.

After my conclusion of the mold affects on me, my body could be used as
an instrument detecting mold as the minute I get in a room in that
humid city, say an optical place, or a car shop that has mold, I would
start having fever immdiately. The skin test for Allergy shows
negative on all allergens tested.

.

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