Mold toxicity
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Miri HaCohen
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Re: Mold toxicity
Ellen Madono -- can you describe how he handles the case? I have a patient who got mold in her lungs after treatment for breast cancer. It is there all the time. She recently had an ear infection that turned out to be mold in her ear. I am not sure how to treat it.
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Ellen Madono
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Re: Mold toxicity
Sorry, the case that I was mentioning is not about fugus or mold on the patient. It is about mold in the basement of the patient's house. Mold in the air prevented the patient from recovering from other symptoms of mold poisoning. The patient could not live in that environment and get well. Hahnemann had a big issue with living in damp places: Marshes and damp basements. Modern people have the same problems.
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: Mold toxicity
Until the mold in the house is abated it will be an ongoing obstacle to cure.
Mold can only develop in moist warm conditions so the water source must be addressed first.
It may be a simple drainage problem outside the house that causes water to accumulate at the foundation
and penetrate the foundation walls. It could be poor perimeter drains (a bigger problem). It could be
errosion of soil with a negative grade that allows ground water to run toward the foundation instead of away from it.
Don't know enough about building styles in Japan but do know this problem in the US quite well as I did mold testing
and abatement as well as home inspections for many years. After the water source is addressed/ remediated the
basement can be successfully treated for the mold in the air a well as on the surfaces. Unfortunately if many things
are stored in the basement it may be more expedient to toss them as opposed to having them cleaned for mold.
It may also be desirable to have the area tested for mold species to see what the offending mold is--there are
1000's of molds with different levels of toxicity but most testing, at least in the US, does basic testing for about
10-12 categories. This might inform you of specific mold allergy which can hone in on the case.
Then you can find success in taking the case and choosing remedies.
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Mold can only develop in moist warm conditions so the water source must be addressed first.
It may be a simple drainage problem outside the house that causes water to accumulate at the foundation
and penetrate the foundation walls. It could be poor perimeter drains (a bigger problem). It could be
errosion of soil with a negative grade that allows ground water to run toward the foundation instead of away from it.
Don't know enough about building styles in Japan but do know this problem in the US quite well as I did mold testing
and abatement as well as home inspections for many years. After the water source is addressed/ remediated the
basement can be successfully treated for the mold in the air a well as on the surfaces. Unfortunately if many things
are stored in the basement it may be more expedient to toss them as opposed to having them cleaned for mold.
It may also be desirable to have the area tested for mold species to see what the offending mold is--there are
1000's of molds with different levels of toxicity but most testing, at least in the US, does basic testing for about
10-12 categories. This might inform you of specific mold allergy which can hone in on the case.
Then you can find success in taking the case and choosing remedies.
t