Re: Aerotech lab dust PCR test and/or Real Time lab mold toxin test

[Guest guest]

Chris: I generally recommend as follows:

1. Urine tests: Trichothecene, aflatoxins and ochartoxins. If present, then

you are spilling mycotoxins. This suggest a colonization. If you have

additional symtpoms, e.g. sinusitis, lungs, skin lesion, etc. other tests should

then be done. For example:

2. Sinuses and nasal cavity: Long sterile Q-tips taking as much mucous as

possible from deep in the nasal cavity. Culture for molds, if positive, then do

DNA PCR on the mold growth as well as on the mucous. Sometimes the mold does

not grow out.

3. Lungs: Deep early morning sputum: culture, PCR on sputum and mold growth.

4..Skin Lesions: Biopsy, differential stain of microscope slide specimens as

mold growth, PCR on mold and biopsy.

I trust that this will give you some idea of the versatility of Hooper's and my

approach.

Jack D. Thrasher, Ph.D.

Toxicologist/Immunotoxicologist/Fetaltoxicologist

www.drthrasher.org