Re: Winter cold sleep concentrates toxins

[Guest guest]

Are you running air cleaners?  I have wondered if that would help.

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From: research1844 <research1844@...>

Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 12:15:59 PM

Subject: [] Winter cold sleep concentrates toxins

 

Has anyone ever slept in the cold, in the winter, in a moldy house and could not

sleep through the night due to very intense mold-related head-aches?

Probably most of you heat your homes well enough in the winter to not experience

that.

[Guest guest]

Hepa air-filters and ionizers did nothing for me in the sick-buildings I've

lived in, as far as mold goes.

However, wall-2-wall indoor carpeting will cause serious allergies if they are

not vacuumed regularly, but, if a powerful air ionizer like the xj2000 (sp?) is

used, vacuuming is required much less often to completely eliminate

carpet-allergies.

I do not know how it works, but I'm certain that ionizing air purifiers can help

a lot with dust/carpet-allergies. It does nothing for mold.

I've never tried carbon or UV light air filtration. Worth a shot. I've used

full-spectrum bulbs & they didnt help. Heck, windows wide open doesnt help.

[Guest guest]

Last winter while living in a motel I was forced to sleep with the windows open

and literally froze, it got to the point that I had no choice but to close the

windows due to the severe cold. Because I didnt have a heavy jacket and I

constantly needed fresh air I was always freezing, last winter was by far the

worst winter of my life due to the lack of fresh air and constantly being so

cold.

For me my symptoms are always more severe during the mild of the day when it's

warmer, its almost like the heat of the mid day sun releases more micotoxins

into the air causing me to be more symptomatic.

The cold may not be the problem, the problem may be from not getting enough

fresh air during the winter months and the blanket that your using to keep you

warm may have been cross contaminated so instead of breathing fresh air you so

desperately need you may in fact be breathing the very air your trying to avoid

by sleeping outside in the first place.

From what I've read air cleaners work but are often times overloaded and cant

clean the air enough to make a significant difference in the way we feel.

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> Has anyone ever slept in the cold, in the winter, in a moldy house and could

not sleep through the night due to very intense mold-related head-aches?

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> Probably most of you heat your homes well enough in the winter to not

experience that.

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> It seems to me as if sleeping in the cold concentrates the mold-toxins in the

nervous system and causes powerful head-aches. I suspect that sleep is some

sort of natural detox cycle in which the body is very vulnerable to toxins in

the air. I can sleep in freezing cold weather, outside, away from mold & leaky

roofs just fine w/ enough blankets.

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> The problem eventually becomes, when it gets too cold below freezing, that one

has to mix the warm air from the lungs with the cold-but-fresh air from outside

the blanket, and eventually either the air is too cold to allow sleep, or too

lacking in fresh oxygen to not suffocate. There has to be a better way. I

sometimes wish I had a big air pipe going out far away from the house w/ a

little fan sucking in air through it from outside, clean of all mold, and on to

a helmet that I can wear while I sleep. This way I wont be breathing mold

toxins all night, and I can still have an air-conditioned body. The problem w/

sleeping outside in the summer is that it is extremely hot until about 1am.

Sometimes longer, and it's very hard to sleep when it's too hot. Perhaps I just

need to lose weight. Perhaps if I was very skinny, I could sleep easier

outside. The other problem is mosquitos, but the net keeps them off, but it

also pretty much eliminates all drafts, which would greatly help cool me off

while I'm trying to sleep. Perhaps a fan will help.

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