Will Toxic Black Mold Poison Me In My House?
Toxic black mold or Stachybotrys is certified mold inspectors about 6% of time in indoor air samples and about 1% of the time in outdoor samples.
According to literature and according to this inspectors experience it grows almost exclusively on very wet cellouse containing materials such as paper holders, carpeting, ceiling tiles, and especially on drywall.
It is the most feared of all molds, due to numerous reports, newspaper articles and magazine articles attributing possible brain damage, infant mortality, damage expensive materials and other horrible consequences surrounding its growth in residential environments.
Many molds produce mycotoxins (toxic chemicals that molds use in a type of microbial warfare). Living things that do not possess claws, fangs, or a hard shell to use in self defense or fast legs to escape predators, usually revert to the use of camouflage or the production of poisons. This is very common in nature.
In reality, toxic molds like Stachybotrys also known as toxic black mold and others may have to be consumed in mold contaminated foods, or physically handled so that physical contact Excessive between human skin and the mold for toxic reactions to develop. At this time most scientists do not believe that breathing in Toxic Mold Spores may have toxic effects in humans by inhalation at levels common in homes and offices.
Public opinion can not provide support for the statement above and in the future we may find that the previous sentence is not true and perhaps one day we will find that toxic molds cause toxic by inhalation but scientific evidence is not currently compatible with the view that toxic molds can poison you via inhalation at levels found indoor environments. To support this statement please review the following summary of the International Journal of Toxicology Volume 23, Number 1 / January-February 2004 pages 3 to 10.
"The risk of inhalation of mycotoxins in indoor office and residential environments
Bruce J. Kelman A1, Coreen A. Robbins A1, Lonie Swenson J. A1, Bryan D. Hardin A1 A1 GlobalTox, Inc., Redmond, Washington, USA
Abstract:
Mycotoxins are known to produce veterinary and human diseases when consumed with contaminated food. Mycotoxins have also been proposed to cause adverse health effects of human exposure after inhalation of mold indoor residential, school and office environments. Epidemiological evidence has been insufficient to establish a causal relationship between indoor mold and nonallergic, toxigenic health effects. In this article, the authors model a maximum possible dose of mycotoxins that can be inhaled in 24 h of continuous exposure to high concentration of mold spores containing the maximum reported concentration of aflatoxins B1 and B2, G and H satratoxins, fumitremorgens B and C, and trichoverrols verruculogen A and B. These calculated doses are compared with the data for the same mycotoxins. None of the maximum doses modeled were sufficiently high to cause adverse effects. The model illustrates the inefficiency of delivery of mycotoxins via inhalation of mold spores, and suggests that the lack of association between mold exposure and mycotoxicosis in indoor environments is due to a requirement of the levels of spores in the air extremely high for long periods of exposure to elicit a response. This model is more mycotoxicosis evidence that humans are unlikely after exposure by inhalation of mycotoxins in mold-contaminated home, school or office environments. "
Regardless of if toxic mold can poison you with mycotoxins via inhalation, is a fact observed by this inspector many times mold can make some people very sick. Asthma attacks, allergies, sinus infections and mold appear to be common. These conditions in turn can cause people loose sleep, loose energy and concentration, miss work, and generally feel as if it were a mycotoxin poisoning.
About the Author
Daryl Watters has a bachelors degree in education for teaching biology and general science and is a certified mold inspector, certified home inspector, and certified indoor environmentalist providing building inspections in South Florida since 1993. For more information visit
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