Mold Health Effects-Part 1.

I would first like to thank you for taking the time to read this. I relish the opportunity to talk plainly with concerned individuals about dangerous environmental conditions in their own homes. I promise you now, by the time you finish this brief letter you will not only have a better understanding of your own general health risks; but also, for those of your family and friends as well. Permit me for a moment to ask you a few questions.
- Do you ever find yourself feeling more rundown after you get home than you did before you left work?
- Do you notice more headaches or feelings of nausea in your own home?
- Do you see your spouse, or your children showing more frequent signs of cold and flu-like symptoms: COUGHING, SORE THROAT, SNEEZING, WHEEZING?
- Is there an area in your house that makes your eyes or throat feel scratchy?
- Do you notice a funny musty odor that you don't recall being there before, even though you know you have a clean house?
- Is there a moisture problem in your house?
Well, those can be frightening questions if you don't exactly have the "right" answers. But, in a situation where you may not be armed with the best information, (if any at all) who can you really trust? Now you may be asking yourself what could cause all of these problems in my house, one word, and mold. But wait, you might be saying to yourself, how could it be a mold issue if I keep my house clean? To answer that question it is important to know how and why mold grows.
Molds produce tiny spores to reproduce. Mold spores waft through the indoor and outdoor air continually. When mold spores land on a damp spot indoors, they may begin growing and digesting whatever they are growing on in order to survive. There are molds that can grow on wood, paper, carpet, and foods. When excessive moisture or water accumulates indoors, mold growth will often occur, particularly if the moisture problem remains undiscovered or un-addressed. There is no practical way to eliminate all mold and mold spores in the indoor environment; the way to control indoor mold growth is to control moisture.
This information was provided courtesy of the EPA in the pamphlet: "A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Home" [EPA 402-K-02-003]
There are many different Mold Companies, offering a variety of techniques who throw fancy terms and product names at you in the hope that by giving you all of these "buzz-words" and industry terms they'll confuse you enough to get you to believe anything that they might say. Many they will try to convince you that they have the strongest chemicals on the planet and a foolproof system that is "guaranteed" to work or they'll promise just about any thing you want to hear sometimes minimizing the problem just in order to make the sale! Most will not stress the most important underlying issue is removing the source of the water. What they don't tell you, is the chemicals that they use are almost completely ineffective; in many cases they even contain known poisons some of which can cause cancer in laboratory animals! In many cases they and their wonderful "systems" (poisons) usually make the problem worse than before they started! All the while they spend most of their time taking your money while often missing the "hidden mold" leaving your families health at risk and charging you for the privilege of taking your money and making your life more miserable.