How Bad Is Toxic Black Mold - Deadly monster or victim of media hype?

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How Bad Is Toxic Black Mold - Deadly monster or victim of media hype?

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Toxic black mold is the most feared of all molds because of

numerous news reports, newspaper articles, and magazine articles

attributing possible brain damage, infant deaths, expensive

property damage, and other horrible consequences of the growth to

this type of mold in residential settings.

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How Bad Is Toxic Black Mold - Deadly monster or victim of media hype?

Copyright © 2007 Daryl Watters

A Accredited Mold Inspection Service, Inc.

http://www.floridamoldinspectors.us

Toxic black mold is the most feared of all molds because of

numerous news reports, newspaper articles, and magazine articles

attributing possible brain damage, infant deaths, expensive

property damage, and other horrible consequences of the growth to

this type of mold in residential settings.

Often toxic black mold is present, but other agents - such as

cigarette smoke, water damaged building materials, or general

unhealthy and unclean conditions resulting from flooding - are

also present that may have contributed to some of the serious

health problems as well. As of 2005, science has not demonstrated

as a fact that breathing in toxins from mold can or cannot result

in health problems in residential settings. It is a fact that

eating stachybotrys can result in toxic poisoning.

You see, many molds produce mycotoxins; these are toxic chemicals

that molds use in a type of microbial warfare. Living things that

do not posses 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. Various species of toxic mold have

the potential to produce mycotoxin. Toxigenic molds are commonly

found by our Ft Lauderdale mold inspectors and Broward county

area mold inspectors.

Many scientifically-established negative health effects have been

connected with mycotoxins produced by stachybotrys mold, pen /

asp and other molds. Many of these negative health effects, such

as cancer of the liver, cell death, neurological damage,

suppressed immune system and many others that are cited in lab

reports given to you by mold inspectors, are (in almost every

case) the results of lab animal studies conducted on mice and

brine shrimp cultures, and cell culture studies on mold toxins.

Human and horse exposure to stachybotrys mold infested hay that

caused toxic reactions in the Ukraine around the 1920's is well

documented. Industrial level exposures of mycotoxins such as at

peanut processing facilities, composting facilities, or farms has

caused documented toxigenic and severe allergenic problems.

Countless farm animals have died as a result of eating food

contaminated with toxic molds, in one extreme example that

occurred in the mid 1960's 100,000 turkeys died in England after

consuming moldy food shipped from Brazil. The causative agent was

aflatoxin from aspergillus flavus mold. In several such cases of

human and animal exposure mycotoxin poisoning is well documented

by scientists and doctors. For more information on documented

cases and on mycotoxins refer to The Fifth Kingdom, by Brice

Kindrick or Bioaerosols from ACGIH by Harriett Burge.

It is very important to not panic but to keep in mind that to

accomplish the above serious detrimental effects, toxic molds

like Stachybotrys and others may have to be either:

1.) Consumed in mold contaminated foods,

2.) Physically handled so that excessive physical contact is made

between human skin and the mold, or

3.) The mycotoxins have to be exposed to living cells in the

laboratory.

Various studies have shown that the levels of mycotoxins

encountered by breathing mold spores in your home or office

appear to be far too low to cause toxic reactions in humans. Of

course future studies may or may not change this current opinion

held by many researches. Synergistic effects of various indoor

pollutants and different mycotoxins mixing together may be more

powerful than individual mycotoxin exposures. Fortunately

scientist are not in the business of preforming full fledged

toxicity studies on human subjects.

However, asthma attacks, allergies, and sinus infections from

mold appear to be very common and result in such levels of

distress in some persons that they feel as if they were being

poisoned.

Discovering the root cause of mold and proper mold removal can be

very expensive and very difficult, the longer you wait the more

expensive and difficult proper removal will likely be. If you

feel that you have a mold problem at your home or place of work

contact a certified mold inspection service.

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Daryl Watters has a bachelors degree in education for teaching biology and

general science and is a certified mold inspector, certified home inspector,

and certified indoor environmentalist providing building inspections in South

Florida since 1993.

For more information visit

http://www.floridamoldinspectors.us

http://www.florida-mold-inspection.com