Re: Mouldy mattress and possibly roof

[Guest guest]

Hi,

You don't need to know what kind of mold is growing anywhere,

including on your mattress, for you to remove the mold. Better

yet, remove the mattress because mold growth on porous

contents is almost always impossible to remove.

If your compost container is outside don't worry about. The

floating mold spores are not quite the same as mold growth.

Mold is not like radiation where it's " zap, you're dead. " There are

spores and hyphal fragments in the air everywhere all the time.

You are always breathing them. The key is if mold is *growing*

especially in confined spaces where you spend time, like inside a

house or on a mattress where you sleep.

If it is growing and you can see it, remove it. Don't try to kill it

because killing changes nothing. The dead mold causes the

same reactions as live mold. Remove the mold and there is

nothing to kill.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Hi there i've just discovered that i have green mould on my mattress. Is

this as toxic and scary as the black mould? We also have a leak in our

roof, we are renting. Is there any way we can test to see if there is mould

ourselves or would we need to get someone in? I have mcs so im pretty

vulnerable and dont want to get worse. The mcs i believe was brought on

my a chemical exposure over a few months at work, but you never can be

sure. Our compost container does grow black mould on occasion, so

perhaps thats indicative of black mould spores in the air. Sigh, one thing

after another lately!

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[Guest guest]

Hi Carl,

Thanks for the reply. Yes I will definately be removing the mattress. The reason

I was asking about the type of mould is that i'm wondering how far I need to go

- some people talking about throwing out clothes and other things in the room,

but I think that might just be for the black mould?

Would I need to throw out the bed base as well where the mould is touching the

bed or could this be cleaned?

I was also wondering HOW to get rid of the mattress. Is it going to be a hazard

taking the mattress in the car, thereby spreading the contamination further?

The compost container is inside in the kitchen, the prescence of the black mould

in it makes me wonder if there are spores coming from an infestation in the

ceiling. The ceiling is fairly closed off but there is a fan in the kitchen so

spores could get through there if there is an infestation in the roof. As

mentioned there is a leak in the roof of our rental and goodness knows how long

it has been there.

That is why I was wondering whether I should get somenoe in to test or if I'm

taking this too seriously. Even better would be a test I could do on myself as I

assume that would be cheaper and less hassle and less disruptive to the other

memebers of my household.

This is all new to me. I've spent so much time looking into so many other things

and this is another that I'm trying to find out more about.

Thanks again for the reply.

Regards,

Dana