Guest guest Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 There has been an ongoing discussion with the heading " High CO levels and mold " . I'm not sure where this started, but the heading hasn't been appropriate for at least several days, since CO is the symbol for carbon monoxide, and recent discussions talk about carbon dioxide. All living organisms, whether plant, animal, bacterial, viral, fungal, require oxygen to survive. Oxygen is the oxidizer to metabolize organic foods to produce energy for the organism, releasing carbon dioxide. Plants, while requiring oxygen and producing carbon dioxide, consume far more carbon dioxide and release far more oxygen through photosynthesis, the process by which glucose is made. Glucose is a significant energy source, and is also used to make starch and othe sugars. Molds do not have the capability of photosynthesis, and always live on some type of organic matter, decaying trees, compost piles, dust in our homes, the wood with which our homes are built, and unfortunately, sometimes in animals, including humans. As Carl points out, some molds can thrive in less oxygen than other molds, all molds need some. Carbon monoxide is very rare in nature, originating almost entirely from combustion in an oxygen deprived condition. Gil Re: High CO levels and mold Posted by: " bbw " barb1283@... barb1283 Date: Thu Dec 7, 2006 7:54 pm ((PST)) Re: oxygen and mold I thought mold liked a low oxygen environment. Perhaps I am confusing it with low light environment. Anyway, hyperbaric oxygen treatment is supposed to help fight systemic infections, amoung other things. Have not really read up on it though. Like temperature, fungus probably handles oxygen within certain parameters and outside of those is toxic. Oxygen can be toxic to people too if they get too much and can damage lung tissue also so people need oxygen to stay within certain parameters. Oh well, I'm done with this now as topic seems to be drifting. _______________________________________________________________________ Re: High CO levels and mold Posted by: " Carl E. Grimes " grimes@... grimeshh Date: Thu Dec 7, 2006 8:47 pm ((PST)) Some molds like more oxygen than others and some molds, including Stachybotrys, thrive with less oxygen. Same with moisture. The ones that are the first to thrive (Penicillium, Aspergillus and others) need less. Some, like Stachybotrys, need more. Some molds even need a certain amount of moisture to germinate the spores and then will grow even better (thrive) with a lesser amount. Which is to be expected when mold is a whole kingdom of life like animals and plants are each a kingdom. The individual species of each kingdom are not all the same and each species has many varieties. Think lions and tigers and bears, Oh My! Carl Grimes Healthy Habitats LLC _________________________________________________________________ Visit MSN Holiday Challenge for your chance to win up to $50,000 in Holiday cash from MSN today! http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com/index.aspx?ocid=tagline & locale=en-us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 I thought the '2' had been accidentally left off. > > > There has been an ongoing discussion with the heading " High CO levels and > mold " . I'm not sure where this started, but the heading hasn't been > appropriate for at least several days, since CO is the symbol for carbon > monoxide, and recent discussions talk about carbon dioxide. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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