Re: Household mold: what you need to know

[Guest guest]

Has anyone else noticed a sudden flurry of the use of this term (or maybe

'meme' is more appropriate)

" household mold " ? Perhaps something could be learned by how and when these

terms come and go.

I guess the idea is to make mold seem less threatening, and more common,

sort of like " household pet "

or the like?

I sometimes wonder if some shadowy organization is behind the scenes

coordinating the

spin control efforts on mold illness. What do folks think about that?

If there is, perhaps the word went out a few months ago " household mold -

use this term " ... or something like that.

Kind of like the whole " mildew " misnomer.. or promoting the concept of mold

illness as simply an 'allergy'

What do folks think about this?

[Guest guest]

-Yes it gives the impression that mold is " common " and normal in most

homes. And that everyone either already has it-- or will have it--

and no big deal. " user friendly " mold....

[Guest guest]

Its important to understand that the situations that produce trully sick

buildings are

usually truly abnormal situations. I think many people are trying to divert

people

from that realization..

Many households don't have any mold. The kind of situations

that make people sick are situations that don't normally occur in

well-maintained homes.

For example, for stachybotrys to start to grow and actually produce

mycotoxins, you need to have

relative humidity in excess of 80-90% inside of wall cavities. In order for

that to happen,

you need an active source of water for an extended period of time.

There is a direct relationship between " wall relative humidity " and

mycotoxin production in many,

actually I think most, of the worst fungi in sick buildings..

On 2/12/08, llaci2003 <jjaksic@...> wrote:

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> -Yes it gives the impression that mold is " common " and normal in most

> homes. And that everyone either already has it-- or will have it--

> and no big deal. " user friendly " mold....

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