For those that doctors are not listening

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Guidance for Clinicians on the Recognition and Management of Health

Effects Related to Mold Exposure and Moisture Indoors

http://oehc.uchc.edu/clinser/MOLD%20GUIDE.pdf

This is an report that was posted about a week ago. It is a good

report that tells doctors about mold and what to look for when you go

to their office for help. I have not read it all yet but it has lots

of very good info. I plan to take to to my doctor. My doctor

retired, so I have to go to someone new and I have no idea what he

knows. Check it out, it is a little long but it has an index so you

can look at what you want to check out. Here is a clip:

Patients present to primary

care services with

symptoms and health

concerns that require consideration

of environmental factors.

In some cases, patients'

exposure to molds in their

homes, offices, schools, and

workplaces may be having a

significant effect. This guidance

is designed to help the

healthcare provider address

patients with illnesses related

to mold in the indoor environment

by providing background

understanding of how mold

may be affecting patients. With

an appreciation of the time

pressures in the clinical medical setting today, the book

presents " tools " to help the provider

evaluate the patient and help the practitioner explore environmental

relationships to illness.

Goals of the Book

This guidance is provided to:

Underscore the role of physicians in the identification of

environmental disease.

Explain the current understanding of the relationship between mold

exposure and illness.

Outline approaches to diagnosis in children and adults.

Provide an approach to environmental assessment.

Provide strategies for clinical management and preventive

intervention.

Suggest readily available resources for assessment and remediation.

The environment often has a role in the development and progression

of disease (Institute of

Medicine 1988, Menzies and Bourbeau 1997). The recognition of

environmentally induced illness.

provides the physician and patient with opportunities

to prevent disease progression or to

reverse the disease process entirely. It also

provides protection to other exposed persons in

family units, schools, or work groups if it leads

to remediation of the causal factor.

Physicians can use specific strategies to

evaluate possible environmental disease in their

patients. These include the pursuit of a specific

diagnosis, an evaluation of the temporal pattern

of symptoms and pathophysiologic changes,

and an office-based evaluation of the patient's environment.