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How consumer products and environmental toxins may be killing you

December 21, 2010

What causes chemical sensitivity? It seems to result from acute or chronic exposure to any chemicals. These chemicals can come from consumer products like bleach and disinfectants or from environmental toxins like mold.

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A Tribute to Dr. Mold

December 8, 2010

In a breakthrough medical analysis, Marinkovich outlined the symptoms that hypersensitive individuals experience when exposed to mold. In the beginning there are feelings of nasopharyngeal – sore throats, hoarseness, stuffy nose, transient hearing loss – or pulmonary – coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath. As the exposure continues, patients suffer headaches, fatigues, rashes, vertigo, muscle and joint pain, fever, and sinus or ear infections.

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Clash of the Chitins

October 13, 2010

If anything, this study will help us fully understand why mold can cause severe asthma attacks in some but not others. One of the reasons toxic mold remediation is so misunderstood is because it usually does not affect everyone in the same moldy place equally. More emphasis needs to be put on the reasons why some people are more susceptible.

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Bachelorette Candidate Has Deep, Dark Secret (Hint: It’s Mold)

October 7, 2010

Five years ago, Kirk was a runner in college – a successful athlete. But his life was turned upside down when he moved into a new house that happened to be really old. Apparently, Kirk did not spring for a mold inspector or mold removal specialist to check out the new pad before moving in. Soon afterwards, Kirk started having trouble breathing, feeling dizzy, and couldn’t think straight. He lost his short-term memory, lost feeling on the left side of his body, and eventually couldn’t even speak! His very life was in peril.

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Summer Mold in the Windy City

August 26, 2010

But studies have shown that if you typically come down with what is colloquially called “hay fever” during these allergy seasons then it was likely a condition that developed in childhood. Long-term exposure to allergens, like mold, pollen, and dust cause children to develop an overly-sensitive immune system. This causes an inflammatory reaction when exposed to allergens later on in life.

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Mold During the Winter

October 19, 2009

Below your home, rapidly melting snow can start mold growth by drenching your house in water just like a summer flood. For example, if you have three feet of snow piled up against the sides of your house and the sun suddenly shows up, it’s going to allow all that water to seep into the soil before it can dry. Water can seep further through the soil and dampen basements and other underground areas of your home. Make sure you have a well-maintained sump pump to correct this problem.

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Are You Still Fighting Mold with Bleach?

April 22, 2009

Don’t use bleach to kill mold! But you don’t have to take our word for it. The EPA now says “the use of a chemical biocide that kills organisms such as mold (chlorine bleach for example) is not recommended as a routine practice during mold remediation.” Additionally, OSHA’s Mold Remediation/ Clean Up Methods guidelines also discourage the use of chlorine bleach as a mold remediation tool.

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