Mold Ignorance in England

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I was browsing through a feature called " Answers " , which is similar

to our health boards, except that the original question is deleted after 4

or 5 days, and no archive is permanently kept. After answering the " respiratory

disease questions " , where I felt that I could speak intelligently, I clicked on

the tiny British flag, at the bottom of the page, to see what questions I could

answer on " UK " , as every country has it's own functions. I came

across the parent of a 2 year old child, whose child was showing no improvement

with her respiratory problems, after a full year of treatment. And, on top of

this, the child's doctor's were treating the parent as if he/she was " ignorant "

(parent's word). So I posted the following reply to the parent's " plea for help "

question.

 

When I checked back, the following day, to see what other responses had been

posted, to the parent's question, I was shocked to see the last 2 sentences in

the reply posted by " kenM " . (His response follows my response, in this posting).

Ignorance about the harmful effects of mold appears to be a worldwide

phenomenon. Most breakthrough mold/mycotoxin research comes out of Europe. But,

it would seem, that knowledge has not filtered down to the average " jerk on the

street " . After reading my reply, see the reply of " KenM " , which follows mine.

 

Joe

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MY Reply

 

YOU are not ignorant. Your doctors are ignorant. Whenever doctors don't have any

idea of what is causing symptoms, they just put a " label " on the symptoms, and

feel that they have done their job, even though you, or your daughter, are STILL

deathly ill. Given the seasons that you say your daughter is sickest, I would

suggest that you first explore the possibility that the cause of her " asthma " is

related to an environmental factor. The most likely suspect would be MOLD. This

involves moving her out of your home, for at least 2 weeks, to see if her

symptoms improve, in a different environment. If her symptoms improve, or

disappear, it would indicate that she had been experiencing a " toxic " mold

reaction, in your home. This is different than an allergic mold reaction, which

triggers asthma. The " toxic " mold reaction, is " non-allergic " , but causes the

same difficulty breathing, as asthma does, and is only partially relieved by

using the " rescue " inhaler.

Doctors are taught very little about environmental illness, and absolutely

nothing about " toxic " mold. After you get your daughter out of your home, if you

wish to learn about " toxic " mold illness, You can go to " UNITED STATES " ,

(www.)where I live, and search for their Health Groups, which are

FREE interactive blogs. Sign on to the " Sickbuildings " group, where the

illnesses caused by indoor mold are discussed. When you leave your home, to go

to a new living space for 2 weeks, do not take any dolls, or other fabric toys

with you, as enough mold will be clinging to them, to make your daughter sick.

If you can buy her, and yourself, new clothes, to wear in your new living space,

it would make the test results more accurate. The first thing that you, and your

daughter, and any pet should do, on arrival in your new space, is take baths, or

showers, to wash away any mold clinging to your body and hair, BEFORE you lay

down and

" cross-contaminate " your new bedding, with mold from your home. Do NOT take any

bedding from your home, into the new environment. If you take any beds, wash

down the hard wood or metal or plastic parts, outside, or inside your new

environment. Mold can cling to anything made of fabric, so try not to take any,

from your home to your new environment. It's really best to NOT take any pet

with you. Once you start this 2 week " change-of-environment " test, your daughter

must NOT re-enter your home, even for 5 minutes, as the way " toxic " mold

reaction works, is that your body loses all the " de-toxification " benefits it is

experiencing in the NEW environment, and you are back to zero, in the " de-tox "

process. If this " change-of-environment " experiment does not work, you at least,

have had a 2 week vacation.The reason that the experiment must be for a minimum

of 2 weeks, is that a " toxic " mold reaction takes days or weeks to disappear,

after leaving the home,

while an " allergic/asthmatic " mold reaction can start improving in minutes or

hours, after leaving the home. To do a thorough " change-of environment " test,

you should consider keeping her out of play school, on the possibility that her

mold exposure is taking place there. It is possible that your daughter has BOTH

an allergic/asthmatic reaction to mold, AND a toxic reaction to mold. For

treating her asthmatic reaction, she would get more medication into her lungs,

if the medication was taken by Nebulizer, so that she could wear a mask, and

inhale deeply over a period of a few minutes, rather than trying to co-ordinate

2 deep inhalations with the pushing of the inhaler. I hope that you are aware

that your daughter has to rinse out her mouth, and gargle in her throat, after

using her corticosteroid inhaler. We have different colors, on our inhalers, in

the U.S.A., so ask your doctor which inhaler that is. Not rinsing and gargling,

could result in a nasty,

painful, fungal infection (visible as a " white tongue " ) in the mouth and

throat. Good luck and God bless. For follow-up, you can email me.

josephsalowitz@...

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Reply by KenM

 

This sounds like typical asthma, not being well controlled. Two years old is

somewhat young to be able to use any inhaler very well, and if they are not

being used really efficiently, they don't work, at all!

Bottom line here, is that the treatment is not working, for whatever reason.

There are medications available in an oral liquid form, and they might be better

options.

However, if your practitioner is uncomfortable with going further in asthma

treatment, a referral to a pediatric allergy/asthma specialist would be totally

reasonable.

by the way, most conventional practitioners consider the mold thing to be a

hokum thing invented by lawyers. Your mileage may vary.