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How Common Mold Toxins Hurt the Body

A List of Exact Symptoms, Signs

and Body Parts Hurt by Mold

Parents may wonder if their family's emotional or health troubles come from mold toxins. We have reviewed over two hundred articles on mold symptoms, and below we list the most common effects of mold on the mind and body. No one has all of these and some are only present in very severe exposures. Even if an exposure is modest, it can still have significant effects on school, work or relationships. These mold chemicals can enter the air from hidden mold sources with the mere vibration of a stereo or merely opening a door. The toxic mold chemicals then disperse all over a school or home. Once they enter your lungs or are swallowed in your nasal fluids or saliva, then they will travel all over the body.

Please realize that if you spend any time in a musty location or a location with visible indoor mold, you will have mold toxin exposure. High levels of exposure overwhelm everyone. Mild mold toxin exposure still bothers approximately 1 in 4 who are poor at removing biologically active mold toxins. These sensitive people need to be extra careful with mold, because they do not remove the toxins from their systems as well as the non-sensitive people. They have to be sure to live in a home that has no hidden indoor mold. They cannot work or go to school in a moldy structure. They need clean low dust environments with air scrubbed with disposable MERV 11 air filters. They also need to take mold toxin binding agents such as Cholestyramine. (Dr. Rosen believes the fat binder Chitosan and pharmaceutical charcoal may also have some mold toxin binding effects).

Mold toxins can produce hundreds of different body problems. This list below is just some key Neurology and Psychiatry sample findings. In an upcoming book on the effects of indoor mold on youth, I go through all the major organs of the body. Again, some patients with mild exposure or who are not extremely sensitive to mold toxins may just have a couple symptoms.

Brain

Headaches

Poor memory

Trouble concentrating

Trouble learning

Trouble finding words

Disorientation

Seizures

Trouble speaking fast

Trouble with understanding fast

Trembling

Vocal or Motor Tics

Serotonin changes

Abnormal reflexes

Strokes

Edema or swelling in the brain

Scarring of Brain seen on MRI's

PET and SPECT scans show hypoperfusion

EEG abnormalities

Brain and Psychiatric

Mood swings

Mania

Irritability

Impulsivity

Increased risk taking

Decreased speak smoothness

Poor stress coping

Increased verbal fighting

New lateness

Poor empathy

Poor boundary awareness

Immaturity

Spacey

Rigidity

Poor insight

Poor insight into illness

Decreased productivity

Unable to process trauma or interpersonal pain

Increased narcissism

Forgetfulness

Poorly organized or obsessively organized

Dead creativity

Depression

Anxiety

Panic Attacks

Decreased attention

Eccentric personality

A delay in a Child's developmental milestones

Increased alcohol consumption or increased drug use

Eyes

Light sensitivity

Red eyes

Blurred vision

Tearing

Eye pain

Hearing

Sound sensitivity

Decreased hearing

Mouth

Metallic taste

Saliva with blood streaks

Nose and Sinuses

chronic infections

Sniffing

Tingling nose

Nasal itching

Stuffy nose

Runny nose

Blood streak in saliva or nasal mucous

Throat & Lungs

Erosion of membranes

Shortness of Breath

Sore throats

Cold or Flu symptoms

Chest pain

Wheezing

Voice changes

Stomach and Intestines

Ulcers

Indigestion

Nausea

Vomiting

Sloughing and death of intestinal villi

New Reaction to wheat or dairy

Diarrhea

Belly pain

Bile duct disease

Liver

Fatty liver

Liver cancer

Abnormal liver lab tests

Jaundice or yellowing

Skin and hair

Numbness

Tingling

Hair loss

Diverse and severe rashes

Itching

Blisters

Biopsies with no clear cause

Burning skin sensation

Muscles & Joints

Cramps

Stiffness

Joint pain

Cartilage damage

Heart & Blood Vessels

Heart Muscle damage

Heart muscle inflammation

Chest pain

Abnormal ECG

Red or pale skin

Reproductive Tissue and Genitals

Increased Testicular cancer

Vaginal irritation

Decreased sperm production

Erectile dysfunction

Hormones and Hormone Tissue

Low DHEA

Low MSH

Low Free Testosterone

Low Androstenedione

Low Cortisol

Abnormal cortisol regulation

Damage to Adrenal glands (Makes Cortisol, DHEA and ADH)

Overall body

Fatigue

Weakness

Malaise

Eccentric weight gain

Occasionally Eccentric thinness

Bizarre pain

Ice pick pain

Lightening bolt pain

New chemical sensitivity

Spinning sensation/Dizziness

Increased thirst

Frequent urination

Shocking sensation

Sweats

Temperature variation

Appetite swings

Easy bleeding or bruising

Swelling

Trouble walking or running easily

Reduced coordination

Rapid pulse

Low temperature

Jerky movements

Abnormal Blood Pressure (low or high)

Fever

Chills

Increased tumors

Laboratory Test Results

Liver tests are abnormal

Liver growths that do not have clear biopsy results

Increased creatine-kinase level

Blood glucose too high or too low

Low or high white blood cells

Anemia

Increases Eosinophils

Blood in the urine

Inflammation labs are high, e.g. TNF-a, C-reactive protein, C3a

Immune system function problems

Bone marrow labs abnormal

Natural Killer Cells that kill cancer decrease in number

Epstein Barr virus, present in everyone, has high levels

Auto-immunity labs which show the body is attacking itself, are abnormal, e.g. ANA, ASM, MBP (blood), Myelin antibodies from Spinal fluid

Red Blood cell abnormalities

Homocysteine over 10

Depressed Immunoglobulin (antibody) levels

Macrophages do not work correctly

Pregnancy

Fetal abnormalities (Birth defects)

Body Chemical Changes

Decreased Protein making

Decreased DNA manufacturing

Decreased epinephrine, adrenaline, norepinephrine and dopamine If you think that the state and Federal government is happy about indoor mold physicians, you are being funny. Pharmaceutical companies with their stranglehold on medicinal innovations, which only promote their new drugs, are fully disinterested in mold illness. ly, clinically irrelevant medical agencies, large corporations and the insurance corporations dislike articles with this material. Having taken an oath to help the suffering, I have no understanding why they do not care about mold injured people, and dislike physicians trying to help patients that many merely insult and degrade with false psychiatric labels. I guess trying to save billions of dollars is more important than helping the victims of mold.

As I write this, New Orleans is under water and those homes will no doubt be unable to be remediated. Bacteria with toxins in their outer walls and toxic mold will fill these structures. Do you really think that government is really good at offering cutting-edge clinical medicine? If the various levels of government including state and Federal agencies, cannot get water bottles to a single stadium, do you really think they have all of medicine covered? The need for massive State and Federal interventions was clearly known to be needed, long before the disaster of Katrina hit New Orleans, because of exceptional weather monitoring, which made it highly likely New Orleans would be buried in water. If these were doctors running the care, they would have all been sued and their licenses attacked. While I salute the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, the Police, the EMTs, the military and the Southern Baptist Interventions, the fact that after so many days so little has been done, shows you cannot count on your government to make all your survival decisions, and I would add they cannot decide what is wise for your personal medical decisions. Sincere people who are not in favor of death, were not able to get services in place fast, when it was clear they would be needed fast--not in four or five days.

If they cannot even get citizens water bottles, food bars and tolerable shelter, do you think they really are going to be intellectually and clinically on top of all the components of your mold illness? The hurricanes in the past twelve months created indoor mold in many homes, and many in the State and Federal government still have not fully appreciated the magnitude of the simple EPA principle that musty and visible mold is not ever acceptable.

Dedicated to the lost in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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