Other Experiences Denaturing Mycotoxins with Ozone?

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Hi all. I just found this group and have been enjoying reading the back posts.

I have been ill for a number of years but only recently made the connection to

toxic mold.

I had no idea that mold was growing in my house. (There was no odor, no visual

evidence.)

I moved out of the house, leaving all my belongings behind.

After that, I started becoming very reactive to even very small quantities of

mold.

Before I discarded everything, I tried wearing my winter coat for a brief period

of time. I

started vomiting uncontrollably.

USPS envelopes and shoe boxes invariably make my heart beat fast.

Visiting some places (Home Depot, the Cheesecake Factory near my house) triggers

a

general attack, with elevated blood pressure, heart racing, nausea,

cognitive/emotional

screwiness.

Other places (like a Borders near my house) don't bother me at first, but then

gradually

creep up on me and cause me to be really irritable with nerves on edge.

Early on, I rooted around in my purse that I had before leaving the house. My

hand got

quite burned and swollen, with the bright red color not going away for a week.

Obviously, this is a pain.

Having to leave behind my house and its contents is hard enough. But an even

more

annoying problem is the fact that though toxic mold is not GROWING everywhere

(it seems

pretty rare), little bits of toxic mold spores or poisons are SCATTERED

everywhere.

This doesn't matter to just about anyone else, but I'm so sensitive now that

even a little bit

of exposure can throw me off track.

So, the ozone. I had my house very carefully remediated, with an extremely

professional

company carefully removing all the moldy drywall in my walls and ceilings.

They then ran an industrial-grade ozone machine for 48 hours. The guy wasn't

really

encouraging that I try it, but I thought that maybe it would kill the dormant

spores and

thus seemed worth a shot. The $300 it cost was trivial.

To my tremendous surprise, after they ran the ozone, my house and its contents

felt fine

to me. And it's not that I'm less sensitive, since a few items removed from the

house

before the ozone was run (like a plastic pill bottle) still make me feel pretty

sick. The stuff

from one drawer that was left closed while the ozone was running made me feel

sick

immediately also.

I did find some agricultural studies that stated that ozone had broken the

chemical

structure of mycotoxins in grain, thus making it safe for livestock to eat. I

still didn't

expect it to work.

This isn't a cure-all, if for no other reason than that the ozone can kill

poisons only when

it comes into contact with them. Books remain poisoned since the ozone doesn't

hit every

sheet, it seems. Even if something is just sitting on the floor, the spores

trapped between

it and the floor don't get hit.

Still, it's definitely progress!

The main thing that makes me feel positive about the idea that the ozone does

work is the

possibility of periodically zapping wherever I'm living. The townhouse where

I'm moving is

remarkably mold-free, but it's not going to stay that way once I bring in stuff

from the

outside world. I'm wondering if periodic 'zaps' might allow it to remain

uncontaminated.

I also am hoping that this might help me to re-claim a FEW items (e.g. some

expensive

furniture that I really like) from my house, though it's going to be quite a

while before I'm

ready for that kind of experimentation.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone here has had similar experiences with ozone? I

tried

doing a content search but didn't immediately come up with anything.

The machine that was used in my house cost $10,000. I'm of the impression that

ozone

works better when used in very high concentrations (far greater than would be

necessary

to kill anyone in the house) if it's going to denature the mycotoxins. They're

tough.

(The mold guy was really surprised when I told him the ozone machine had broken

down

the poison, but he seemed happy for me.)

It's actually tempting to buy my own $10,000 machine and then ozone wherever I'm

staying every couple of weeks for " maintenance " purposes. Going to the desert

sounds

like a great idea, but it's not practical to do it full-time and the mold is

still a problem

upon return.

Anyway, has anyone here had successes with this approach? How have you made use

of it,

if so?

Info on failures would be really useful too.

Thanks!!!

Best,