Joe: Re: Re:New Here - Please help

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Joe, I am quite upset that you would suggest that these people dump this house

on someone else. I suggest you go back in your little corner of the

world....they do need to get out, but do not let anyone else in there. I am not

going to say anymore about this, because if I do there is no telling what I

might say to you regarding the advise you are giving to these people. I am sure

they have common sense in knowing they need to get out, but come on Joe, telling

them to let someone else move in there so they can get their monthly rent. Is

that worth risking someone else's life........NO.....Darlene

Joe Salowitz <josephsalowitz@...> wrote:

What I am about to suggest, should not be evaluated on the basis of morality,

because what we are talking about is a matter of life or death; YOUR life or

death. In such circumstances, you must do whatever is necessary to stay alive,

and keep your family alive. If, as you say, the housing market is depressed, you

must RENT your home to someone else, and use their rental money to move

elsewhere to RENT a place for YOU to live, even if that rental money means that

you may ALL have to live in a single room, at your new location. The NEW

location will allow your body to heal and regain it's strength, so you can think

clearly enough to make long-term plans. Don't worry about your NEW single room

being too small to take any of your stuff with you, because you CAN'T do that

anyhow, as it would contaminate your new environment.

The morality of dumping your old problem house on someone else, can be

justified with the comforting thought that only a small percentage of people

have our " sickbuilding " illness, and you are most likely going to be renting to

a non-sufferer, who will think that they are living in a wonderful house, at a

bargain rental. Just don't collect their rent money by going back to that house.

Have them mail it, instead, or arrange for their checking account to be debited,

once a month, and automatically deposited into your checking account. You will

be a " Moldie " for the rest of your life. Once you have " healed " , after this

initial exposure, you will notice that even tiny exposures, such as picking up a

rent check at a moldy house, is enough to make you sick again.

Every minute you continue to stay in your present moldy environment, you are

damaging your body. At some point, when you have escaped your moldy environment,

you will heal and your symptoms will get better, but the damage already done to

your body will be permanent. You will notice that you are not the same person

you were BEFORE your exposure. If you can create the mental image of one of your

fingers and toes falling off, every week in your current moldy environment while

you are sick, and realize that once you are out of that environment, you will be

healthy, but NEVER get those fingers and toes back, for the rest of your life,

you will grasp what I am saying. Our REAL damage is internal, and not visible.

But the devastating reality is the SAME.

Below is the 8 year old news release, from the Mayo Clinic, that a previous

poster referred to, which states that almost all CHRONIC sinusitis is caused by

fungi (mold), and not by bacteria. So your doctor can have you squirting

antibiotics up your nose, forever, and it won't do any good. Only ACUTE

sinusitis is bacterial in origin, and can be cured by antibiotics. If you are

wondering why your doctor is unaware of this 8 year old reality, it is because

the drug companies have not yet figured out how to make buck$$$$$$$$$$$$$, from

this reality, so your doctor is not being educated by the people who give him

his daily " continuing medical education " - the drug " pushers " from the major

pharmaceutical manufacturers.

In May 2007, the Mayo Clinic got a $2.4 Million grant from the National

Institute of Health (NIH), to develop therapies based on their 8 year old

discovery. Please guys, figure out a way to make the drug companys even richer

[sarcasm] cause its the only way the truth will get out to the doctors. Oh yeah,

please also make the new therapy a way that the doctor can get even richer

[double sarcasm], or WE will never get cured.

In the meantime, run, run, run. Get out of there. Stop wasting your time and

money on testing your house. You own body has " tested " the house many times, in

your account of your suffering. When you are there, you are sick. When you are

NOT there, you are NOT sick. Duuuuuuuuuuuh. Run.

Best of luck.

Joe

Mayo Clinic Study Implicates Fungus As Cause Of Chronic Sinusitis

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 1999) — " We can now begin to treat the cause of the

problem instead of the symptoms "

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ROCHESTER, MINN. -- Mayo Clinic researchers say they have found the cause of

most chronic sinus infections -- an immune system response to fungus. They say

this discovery opens the door to the first effective treatment for this problem,

the most common chronic disease in the United States.

An estimated 37 million people in the United States suffer from chronic

sinusitis, an inflammation of the membranes of the nose and sinus cavity. Its

incidence has been increasing steadily over the last decade. Common symptoms are

runny nose, nasal congestion, loss of smell and headaches. Frequently the

chronic inflammation leads to polyps, small growths in the nasal passages which

hinder breathing.

" Up to now, the cause of chronic sinusitis has not been known, " say the Mayo

researchers: Drs. Sherris, Eugene Kern and Jens Ponikau , Mayo Clinic ear,

nose and throat specialists. Their report appears in the September issue of the

journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

" Fungus allergy was thought to be involved in less than ten percent of

cases, " says Dr. Sherris. " Our studies indicate that, in fact, fungus is likely

the cause of nearly all of these problems. And it is not an allergic reaction,

but an immune reaction. "

The researchers studied 210 patients with chronic sinusitis. Using new

methods of collecting and testing mucus from the nose, they discovered fungus in

96 percent of the patients' mucus. They identified a total of 40 different kinds

of fungi in these patients, with an average of 2.7 kinds per patient.

In a subset of 101 patients who had surgery to remove nasal polyps, the

researchers found eosinophils (a type of white blood cell activated by the

body's immune system) in the nasal tissue and mucus of 96 percent of the

patients.

The results, the researchers say, clearly portray a disease process in which,

in sensitive individuals, the body's immune system sends eosinophils to attack

fungi and the eosinophils irritate the membranes in the nose. As long as fungi

remain, so will the irritation.

" This a potential breakthrough that offers great hope for the millions of

people who suffer from this problem, " says Dr. Kern. " We can now begin to treat

the cause of the problem instead of the symptoms. "

More research is underway at Mayo Clinic to confirm that the immune response

to the fungus is the cause of the sinus inflammation. The researchers are also

working with pharmaceutical companies to set up trials to test medications to

control the fungus. They estimate that it will be at least two years before a

treatment will be widely available.

The researchers distinguish chronic sinusitis -- sinusitis that lasts three

months or longer -- from acute sinusitis, which lasts a month or less. They say

that the cause of the acute condition is usually a bacterial infection.

Antibiotics and over-the-counter decongestants are widely used to treat

chronic sinusitis. In most cases, antibiotics are not effective for chronic

sinusitis because they target bacteria, not fungi. The over-the-counter drugs

may offer some relief of symptoms, but they have no effect on the inflammation.

" Medications haven't worked for chronic sinusitis because we didn't know what

the cause of the problem was, " says Dr. Ponikau. " Finally we are on the trail of

a treatment that may actually work. "

Thousands of kinds of single-cell fungi (molds and yeasts) are found

everywhere in the world. Fungal spores (the reproductive part of the organism)

become airborne like pollen. Some people develop allergies to fungi. The new

evidence from the Mayo study suggests that many people also develop a different

kind of immune system response.

Adapted from materials provided by Mayo Clinic.