Mold

Mold may become the buzz word of this decade. Mold has been around since the dawn of time, in Leveticus there is mention of when a man's house become's plagued that the elders should come out and scrape the slime from the walls and take it entirely out of the city. Most people think of mold around the house as being the little patches of black mold that may grow in the corner of the bathroom from time to time, which cleans up easily with some bleach water, but the mold I'm referring to is much more insidious than this. As the cost of heating and cooling rises, building techniques have focused on insulation and sealing out the climate. This includes wrapping the house with Tyvek, gas sealed windows that don't allow any air to get around them and so on. Mold likes to grow where there is a lack of circulation and where the air is trapped. Most walls in modern homes have sheet rock which can harbor lots of mold spores, the wood framework between the sheet rock and the outer layers of the wall which have been sealed off with insulation, sheets of wood and/or plastic wrap, then siding put on over that. If there is a leak in the siding and moisture gets into the inner wall, this condition can cause mold to grow unchecked and unnoticed until or even after the family begins to get a flu that just will not go away.

Another place where mold has been a problem is with improper central air units where moisture can get trapped in the duct work, or in some cases we've heard of drainage for the condensation actually leaking out under the house. These can become mold growth mediums which allow mold to grow unchecked. How dangerous is mold? Molds that are common in houses such as Stachybotrys and Aspergillus can be very deadly. These molds can grow undetected in or around ventilation work, inside the walls where it is unseen, and are completely undetectable until suddenly they have gotten far enough out of control that they are producing spores and mycotixins that can spread through your house as equally unseen as if it were carbon monoxide. Invasive Aspergillosis can  resist drug treatment and progress to death. much depends on the immune system of the individual.  I will upload some links and more info on mold problems in the near future.

Some of the problems caused by mold are flu like symptoms, reactive arthritis leading into Rheumatoid arthritis, Multiple Schlerosis, Fibromyalgia, neurological damage affecting coordination, brain damage, cancer, lung cancer, kidney and liver damage, and the list goes on. In fact, at present there probably isn't a difinitive study outlining all the problems that can be caused by mold, or secondary to mold exposure due to a compomised immune system. As we have seen with Anthrax, mold can even cause death.

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