Guest guest Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Robin, you will get high mold counts if you are testing outdoor air or windows are open. As an experiment deliberately do an outdoor test away from car and then do car. Because car doors are open and shut so much and are small interior spaces, highly likely results are for outddoor air. High outdoor air mold should not be alarming. You have a problem only if the mold in growing INSIDE the car because then you have constant exposure to the same type of mold everyday, all the time you are in car at high levels. OUtside you have high exposoure to mold but it is variety of molds waifing around in air. So in your outdoor test, you will usually see a very wide variety of mold, lots of different sizes, shapes and colors of mold. That is normal outdoor mold at normal levels. Essenentially you are breathing in a few spores of this a few of that and a couple of this and one of that, along with a wide variety of bacteria and maybe virus germs, one here, couple there. This helps you to keep up your immunity to these pathogens, getting them in very low doses, now and then, like a vaccination to them. Your body can handle that. Mold growing inside you will be breathing in the same type of mold, all the time you are in car, so high numbers of the same type, then it can start to colonize in your lungs or sinuses or affect your health. It's the difference between being exposes to one flu germ a minute or a thousand flu germs in a minute. The first won't affect you at all, the second will probably give you the flu. >also the car door had to be opened to measure the air and its such a concentrated space.. the tape sample showed nothing. It jut doesnt make sense becasue there is no wate damage and if it was from their WDB/house.. the high counts were of the mysterious A/P label and this did not register in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Unfortunately, I as not there to have any say or I would have told the inspector to do an outdoor assessment. He did not and my parents did not know to push for one. High outdoor air should not be alarming (thank you) esp if there islandscape demolition going on as well as trees being cut down... I was not told this was going on and inspector seemed to not either care or think this was an issue. Also makes sense a car is a concentrated space. I am wondering how to keep a car clean of the mold spores when hit by a huge amount of ourdoor mold at once like with my fathers car. Im guessing you clean it and it seems keep the air fan vented to outside (ironically) to keep from recirculating the same spore laden air... Im not sure where the AC in a car become contaminiated. There is a drip pan? Some resevoir? this would be contamination form outdoor mold spores? There is no way to address that? Robin > > Robin, you will get high mold counts if you are testing outdoor air or windows are open. As an experiment deliberately do an outdoor test away from car and then do car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Again, the key here is it is outdoor mold you are asking about. If it isn't growing inside, just clean car interior, period. > I am wondering how to keep a car clean of the mold spores when hit by a huge amount of ourdoor mold at once like with my fathers car. Im guessing you clean it and it seems keep the air fan vented to outside (ironically) to keep from recirculating the same spore laden air... > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 I said that. Clean the interior and asked if there is a way to clean the air conditioning system. I dont think all outdoor mold in chronic high concentrations is healthy when you have a compromised immune system or respiratory damage. I also am believing that there is a threshold (where it doesnt have to be such high concentration) whether it be the toxins (which are I am hearing much less benign with outdoor molds) or just the ability of the mold to irritate the sinuses and lungs. So I would like to keep it as clean as possible. My question is how to do that without going insane (Peronally and I admire people who need to keep AC off and manage to do it). There has to be a middle road between dont use AC and keeping AC healthy. Or not? I think living in a desciduous forest of 100 plus acres for over ten years has effected me and my sinuses.. not just toxic indoor mold. I think and could be wrong that chronic exposure to outdoor mold exp with HLA types esp if ALL mycotoxins (and ALL endotoxins as I have been asking) are or CAN BE an issue... again in addition to the break down os sinuses (mine are ful of polyps and tissue is mostly opaque) and lungs (mine tested for diffuse minimal thickening and I was supposed to be on 6 months revisits to monitor which I did not and it seemngly did go away when I treated for babesia and or used serrapeptase but take seriously). Robin > > > I am wondering how to keep a car clean of the mold spores when hit by a huge amount of ourdoor mold at once like with my fathers car. Im guessing you clean it and it seems keep the air fan vented to outside (ironically) to keep from recirculating the same spore laden air... > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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