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Can Toxic Black Mold Poison Me?

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Regardless of if toxic mold can poison you with mycotoxins via
inhalation, it is a fact observed by this inspector many times
that mold can make some people very sick. Asthma attacks,
allergies, and sinus infections from mold appear to be very
common. Such conditions in turn can cause people to loose sleep,
loose energy and concentration, miss work, and in general feel as
if they were being poisoned by mycotoxins.


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Can Toxic Black Mold Poison Me?
Copyright (c) 2007 Daryl Watters
A Accredited Mold Inspection Service, Inc.
http://www.floridamoldinspectors.us



Stachybotrys is a slow growing mold and requires high levels of
water in it's substrate. This inspector commonly finds it
growing in wet, dark, hidden areas. It loves areas where a slow
hidden leak can continue unnoticed and uncorrected for a few
weeks or months such as inside wall cavities.

According to literature and according to this inspectors
experience it grows almost exclusively on very wet cellouse
containing materials including paper, carpets, ceiling tile, and
especially on drywall. It loves drywall because of the cellulose
paper on the front and back surfaces of drywall. Wood contains
cellulose, and yes stachybotrys will grow on wood but it is not
found growing on wet wood as often as one would think. The
cellulose food in wood is protected to some degree by wood's
lignan. In water damaged buildings the wood surfaces are more
likely to be colonized by Chaetomium and pen asp.

Toxic black mold or stachybotrys is found by certified mold
inspectors about 6% of the time in indoor air samples and about
1% of the time in outdoor samples.

It is the most feared of all molds, due to the numerous news
reports, newspaper articles, and magazine articles attributing
possible brain damage, infant deaths, expensive property damage
and other horrible consequences surrounding its growth in
residential settings.

Many molds produce mycotoxins (toxic chemicals that molds use in
a type of microbial warfare). Living things that do not possess
claws, fangs, or a hard shell to use in self defense or fast legs
to run away from predators, will typically revert to the use of
camouflage or the production of poisons. This is very common in
nature.

In reality, toxic molds like Stachybotrys also known as toxic
black mold and others may have to be either consumed in mold
contaminated foods, or physically handled so that excessive
physical contact is made between human skin and the mold in order
for toxic reactions to develop. At this time most scientists do
not believe that breathing in toxic mold spores can have toxic
effects on humans when inhaled at the levels typically
encountered in homes and offices.

Public opinion may not be in support of the above statement and
in the future we may find that the above statement is not true
and perhaps one day we will find that toxic molds cause toxic
reactions via inhalation but currently scientific evidence does
not support the view that toxic molds can poison you via
inhalation at levels found in indoor environments. To support
this statement please review the following abstract from the
International Journal of Toxicology Volume 23, Number 1 /
January-February 2004 pages 3 to 10.

"Risk from Inhaled Mycotoxins in Indoor Office and Residential
Environments

Bruce J. Kelman A1, Coreen A. Robbins A1, Lonie J. Swenson A1,
Bryan D. Hardin A1 A1 GlobalTox, Inc., Redmond, Washington, USA

Abstract:

Mycotoxins are known to produce veterinary and human diseases
when consumed with contaminated foods. Mycotoxins have also been
proposed to cause adverse human health effects after inhalation
exposure to mold in indoor residential, school, and office
environments. Epidemiological evidence has been inadequate to
establish a causal relationship between indoor mold and
nonallergic, toxigenic health effects. In this article, the
authors model a maximum possible dose of mycotoxins that could be
inhaled in 24 h of continuous exposure to a high concentration of
mold spores containing the maximum reported concentration of
aflatoxins B1 and B2, satratoxins G and H, fumitremorgens B and
C, verruculogen, and trichoverrols A and B. These calculated
doses are compared to effects data for the same mycotoxins. None
of the maximum doses modeled were sufficiently high to cause any
adverse effect. The model illustrates the inefficiency of
delivery of mycotoxins via inhalation of mold spores, and
suggests that the lack of association between mold exposure and
mycotoxicoses in indoor environments is due to a requirement for
extremely high airborne spore levels and extended periods of
exposure to elicit a response. This model is further evidence
that human mycotoxicoses are implausible following inhalation
exposure to mycotoxins in mold-contaminated home, school, or
office environments."

Regardless of if toxic mold can poison you with mycotoxins via
inhalation, it is a fact observed by this inspector many times
that mold can make some people very sick. Asthma attacks,
allergies, and sinus infections from mold appear to be very
common. Such conditions in turn can cause people to loose sleep,
loose energy and concentration, miss work, and in general feel as
if they were being poisoned by mycotoxins.




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Daryl Watters is president of A Accredited Mold Inspection Service,
Inc. He provides home, mold, and indoor air quality investigations
in South Florida. He is also the creator of MIR forms designed to
aid inspectors in the production of computer generated indoor air
quality and mold inspection reports.

For more inspection information visit
http://www.floridamoldinspectors.us
http://www.florida-mold-inspection.com



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