OT: Mold

I want to add that it may even be your roof or your windows.  My dearest friend had an undetected leak in her roof. She didn’t know that it was pouring down the inside of the wall. It wasn’t until a terriable storm one year that it showed up. They finally found it when the wall started to come in.  I have also noticed that it can be around a window pain. It can be in the incelation.  Water comes in and you may never even know it was the window.  Another thing is behind the tub liner. It could also be behind the faucets especially if you don’t have them tight. Could also be your shower curtain or rubber holding your tub.  If you have a crawl space instead of a basement that is another biggie!  Another close friend just spent thousands of dollars getting rid of the mold in her crawl space.  She had a drain spout on one side of the house cause that.  It also showed up in her bathroom on her walls. That was because she didn’t have an moisture airvent properly working. She had a window in her tub area but that just created more problems. 

    That being said… Are you on a special mold diet? You mentioned that you cleaned with vinegar.  Vinegar is a fermented product. “A Mold”  If you are highly allergic to mold then you shouldn’t be using vinegar.  My son is allergic to mold. We must eliminate vinegar from his diet.  He can’t have Ketchup, pickles, mustard, Anything with High Fruitcose Corn Syrup, (It is also fermented).  Bread-  It has Yeast which is a mold. Maybe you should google” Mold diet”  and see what you should be eating. 

  I know this because I had been told by my doctor that you  don’t have to have a special diet. I was told by a few moms that live by me that have mold allergies that she is dead wrong.  So, I did the research myself and I was shocked at all the foods he couldn’t have because they have to do with mold.  After I stopped these foods in his diet I noticed that he was getting much better. Now we can pinpoint his triggers better.  Another thing for us was Milk.  The cows eat silage (moldy grain) It comes out in their milk. So candy is another trigger. Milk chocolate is out and so is just about every candy on the planet.  Why?  Because they have die in them. Die is not only carcinagenic but it also made with milk.  Die is “coal tar”  It is an oil based product. Since oil and water don’t mix they have to use milk.  They won’t label it as a milk product but it is.  So, with that I would say that if you are having a trigger of alleric reactions it may be the mold in your house or it maybe the vinegar you are spraying on it. It also could be the food you are eating.  

  Oh and another person I know had it in their dishwasher walls. I myself had it one time in the freezer seal. Glad we got rid of that. So you may also want to check you appliances.

   Good luck finding the source. It is no fun trying to hunt it down.  Hope I was some help to you.  I know how hard it is to keep a mold free envirnment.  It is next to impossiable. 🙂 It can be done though.

       Blessings!

Just wanted to say there is a difference in the types of mold, some mold is just surface and can be wiped off, like that in the fridge seals etc….and in bathrooms – the stuff that is the problem is the mold that you cannot easily see, and that lurks around badly fitting siding which allows damp to fester and mold to grow under it, and in and around bathtubs and toilets where there can be leaks, and also in the a/c system, caused by not using the a/c properly.  One of the big problems in the house we used to have was that the people would run the a/c in the hot summer, then go away regularly on holiday for weeks at a time, they would then switch the system off, and then the mold would grow in the ducts….it is always better to leave the a/c working we were told, because that way the damp humid air cannot get a hold …so that is worth remembering.  The inspector told us that 80% of people in the US have mold and don’t know it…that is why it pays to make sure there is no damaged siding and that the house is well maintained, by sealing holes and checking plumbing regularly and maintaining the a/c.  When we moved we bought a brand new house, because we did not want to take on an older home again, even a new house after a couple of years can be a haven for mold if the  home is not taken care of.  So it is a big problem here, and it does not matter if you live in the south or north, mold is in every state.  If you have wood window frames that is another area where the wood if not maintained can rot and then mold can enter.  An easy check for that is to get a pen knife and see if you can penetrate the wood with only a little pressure – if you can then it is rotten and needs replacing.  The same goes for siding, our inspector slipped his pen knife under the siding and found rotten wood underneath, the owners had replaced the siding over rotten wood, and then told no-one, so we had a problem there as well.  People can be very dishonest and you have to be careful when buying a home.  We were totally unaware of this mold threat, in England the only mold you see is surface and it is easy to wipe off, it does not take over the house, because our climate is not conducive to it. 

That is a lovely thought Sue….

The crawl space mold can be very bad. It can spread to all walls in the house. I would also make sure you check to see how it started.  There must be some moisture coming in from somewhere that started it.  I am glad that you found your mold source. 🙂 

  The preservatives…  My son is also allergic to preservatives I am not sure why other than they are a chemical.  I will have to do more research into that one. 🙂 

   He is also allergic to jams, jellies, and juices because most companies wait till the fruit gets ripe before they pick it. Some has mold on them. They just throw them in with the rest. Processing them and it spreads threw the whole batch.  So, if I don’t make my own then he doesn’t get any.  We notice that he has more behavioral problems if he has juice.  So we try to stay away from it.

   Just thought I would add that one in there too.   Also grains can sit in the field and have mold on them. So, if someone is allergic to mold then grains can also be a problem.   Some people are treated for food allergies when they are actually allergic to mold.