Getting re-exposed to mold?

[Guest guest]

I think I asked a similar question a while ago but wanted to get more info

on this issue. Do people's symptoms come back, to some degree, when they're

re-exposed to mold? We lived in a moldy house for 4 years. We moved out 6

months ago. We have steadily improved since then. I find that the hardest

symptoms to kick have been the brain ones, especially some brain fog-type

stuff. However, just in the past month or so, I'd finally been feeling more

normal, health-wise. Good energy level, good ability to focus/remember/etc,

little depression or anxiety, no hair loss. Appetite had come back to

normal, and I'd finally been able to gain a little weight (had gotten so

thin, and I think this was from mold--do some people lose weight because of

mold toxicity?).

We have some friends who I think have mold at their house. I can feel fine

before going over there, but while over there, or soon after, various mold

symptoms start coming back. Once we were over there and within an hour or

less, I felt anxiety coming on. I didn't feel this way before going over

there. Another time after going over there on a Thurs., on Fri. and Sat.

nites I had **horrendous** insomnia. I am historically a person who does

*not* tend to get insomnia. (The last time I had insomnia was last winter,

when I had months of horrible insomnia at the moldy house.)

So last Sat., I wasn't even at their house. I was in their car for about 2

hrs. Could it be possible that either I get exposed to mold via mold spores

being on their clothes and hair, and is that enough to make my symptoms come

back, without even being in their house? Or maybe there is mold in their

car?

The symptoms that have come back since Sat. (and I wasn't feeling these

symptoms before Sat.): brain fogginess, spaciness, anxiety, lack of " oomph "

and energy (when I woke up on Sun. I almost felt like I had a hangover),

milder depression, getting stressed out more easily. Mainly the

brain-related and nervous system stuff. Does my hypothesis--that these

symptoms came back due to being around these people and their house--make

sense? (Again, I didn't feel these symptoms before being around them, and I

think every time I go to their house, symptoms that I didn't have before

that start coming back.)

If and when you get re-exposed, how do you get rid of the symptoms? Are

there are vitamin supplements, foods, teas, nasal washes, baths, etc. that

would lessen the severity and duration of symptoms? Or do you just have to

tough it out till symptoms are gone? How long do those re-exposure symptoms

usually last (how many days or weeks)?

How do you tell a friend that you think they have mold? How do you tell them

you can't come over to their house because their house makes you sick,

without them thinking you're crazy, or rude, or disinterested in their

friendship? Do you just stop being friends with someone because being at

their house and being exposed to the mold lingering on their clothes makes

you sick? I am concerned too because they have 3 young children. Apparently

they eat healthy, yet their kids are sick a lot. And the kids are not in

daycare. More clues to me that they might have mold in their house. (She

also told me recently that the large rugs in their living/dining area were

left out in the rain at some point. Also, I'm pretty sure she told me that

their previous home had mold, and she just painted over it or something like

that.)

[Guest guest]

>Does my hypothesis--that these

>symptoms came back due to being around these people and their

>house--make sense? (Again, I didn't feel these symptoms before being

>around them, and I think every time I go to their house, symptoms

that >I didn't have before that start coming back.)

Cross-contamination is definitely possible. All my problems have

always been due to cross-contamination, I have never had mold in my

house. People's clothes and common objects are more than enough to

make me ill for a VERY long time.

Also take a look at Jill's (JSverdlove) messages during the past two

months. She went to a moldy house and stayed there only for a few

hours, and that was enough to contaminate her house so much that she

had to leave and now lives in a hotel.

Cross-contamination is a very real and very dangerous problem. Don't

play with fire (mycotoxins and toxic MVOCs). You may regret but then

it will be too late.

-Branislav

[Guest guest]

>Oh- and I did lose alot of weight when I was sick. I couldn;t eat for

a year. Lost over ten pounds (alot for me because I am not overweight)

and I looked absolutely emaciated for the longest time. Being sick,

any kind of sick, will do that to you. I just did not have an appetite

and the funniest thing too-I couldn't cook well at all the whole time!

It's like the brain fog extended to my cooking ability and I couldn;t

make anything I used to make perfectly. It came back though I still

cannot cook well when I have a flare up.

> I think I asked a similar question a while ago but wanted to get

more info

> on this issue. Do people's symptoms come back, to some degree, when

they're

> re-exposed to mold?