Re: Has anyone ever been told this?

[Guest guest]

Mold odor is the VOCs generated while actively growing. I guess one could say

the mold without odor (can't be smelled?) is more dangerous because it isn't

detectable therefore won't be found and removed to stop exposure. Otherwise

odor, or not, has little to nothing to do with the " dangers " of mold.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

(fm my Blackberry)

[] Has anyone ever been told this?

Last week I posted about my daughters son school being tested for mold.

Forgot to say the first time she was smelling mold in the sancutary that the

roof had been damaged from hail thus leaking and causing mold in the insulation.

They replaced the roof and removed the moldy insulation, she then started to

smell mold in a couple of other areas last week they found mold in the basement

directly below the area where she could smell mold. Yesterday they were to

conclude their tests.

I have the dreaded gene types multisuceptible and mold and leaning to the

conclusion that she and her son would have one of them. She took her son to the

doctor yesterday to discuss the mold, he said he had the same genetic problem

and that 20 % of the population has it. He then told her that the dangerous

mold does not have an odor, this is the first time that I have heard this, has

any one else heard this?

Lee

[Guest guest]

Once again thank you Carl, for you input...really appreciate it.

Lee

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> Mold odor is the VOCs generated while actively growing. I guess one could say

the mold without odor (can't be smelled?) is more dangerous because it isn't

detectable therefore won't be found and removed to stop exposure. Otherwise

odor, or not, has little to nothing to do with the " dangers " of mold.

>

> Carl Grimes

> Healthy Habitats LLC

> (fm my Blackberry)

>

> [] Has anyone ever been told this?

>

> Last week I posted about my daughters son school being tested for mold.

> Forgot to say the first time she was smelling mold in the sancutary that the

roof had been damaged from hail thus leaking and causing mold in the insulation.

They replaced the roof and removed the moldy insulation, she then started to

smell mold in a couple of other areas last week they found mold in the basement

directly below the area where she could smell mold. Yesterday they were to

conclude their tests.

> I have the dreaded gene types multisuceptible and mold and leaning to the

conclusion that she and her son would have one of them. She took her son to the

doctor yesterday to discuss the mold, he said he had the same genetic problem

and that 20 % of the population has it. He then told her that the dangerous

mold does not have an odor, this is the first time that I have heard this, has

any one else heard this?

> Lee

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Carl, all I know is that I inhaled mold, & it felt for all the world like

someone threw baby powder in my face , while I was inhaling.  I could not taste

it, or smell it, but I DEFINITELY felt it.... & it caused very serious damage. 

I also had breast cancer after the exposure, but not till a long time after. 

It demyelinated my spinal cord, causing a syndrome called transverse myelitis.

 

take good care,

V.

From: Carl Grimes <grimes@...>

Subject: Re: [] Has anyone ever been told this?

Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 11:28 PM

 

Mold odor is the VOCs generated while actively growing. I guess one could say

the mold without odor (can't be smelled?) is more dangerous because it isn't

detectable therefore won't be found and removed to stop exposure. Otherwise

odor, or not, has little to nothing to do with the " dangers " of mold.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

(fm my Blackberry)

[Guest guest]

,

You raise a very important point about " feeling " effects when

there is no odor. I'd say much of the time that is how I " detect " an

exposure. It is important to understand that it is not the odor or

the detection of the odor that causes the problem. It is the

substance we are exposed to. One obvious example is carbon

monoxide. It can kill quickly at sufficient levels but no one will

ever detect it by odor.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Carl, all I know is that I inhaled mold, & it felt for all the world like

someone threw baby powder in my face , while I was inhaling. I could

not taste it, or smell it, but I DEFINITELY felt it.... & it caused very

serious damage. I also had breast cancer after the exposure, but not till a

long time after. It demyelinated my spinal cord, causing a syndrome

called transverse myelitis.

take good care,

V.

From: Carl Grimes <grimes@...>

Subject: Re: [] Has anyone ever been told this?

Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 11:28 PM

Mold odor is the VOCs generated while actively growing. I guess one

could say the mold without odor (can't be smelled?) is more dangerous

because it isn't detectable therefore won't be found and removed to stop

exposure. Otherwise odor, or not, has little to nothing to do with the

" dangers " of mold.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

(fm my Blackberry)

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