Classroom mold, how long until I fee... 
#124755
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I work in a 90 year old classroom. Five years ago I started feeling daily/ constant fatigue and brain fog, and each year I get more symptoms: TMJ, numb foot, hormonal imbalance, can't breathe out of one side/septum became deviated, headaches, dizziness, premature heart beat, one eye dilated more than the other, abnormal breathing and oxygen test, brain MRI with 30-40 tiny lesions, gamma globulins showing "chronic inflammation." Painful eyes, smells bother me, metallic taste in mouth. Also, all day every day muscle pain.
About the same time I started feeling bad they changed the carpet. But I just found out, they actually put the new carpet on TOP of the OLD carpet! The old carpet had been previously wet due to hurricanes.
Months ago I noticed a smell in my classroom. I checked the AC and it was full of disgusting black "stuff." They said it was dirt, so I sent it to the lab and it was 4 kinds of mold--acremonioum, cladiopsorum, bipolaris, and nigraspora.
After a huge delay, they pressure washed the coils (but didn't clean the ductwork). I dusted everything. My nausea and the smell went away immediately, but I am worried I've had too much exposure and won't get well. I have taken oregano oil and a anti fungal herb with things like cinnamon etc. Also neti pot.
Does anyone know when it will get out of my system, or what else I can do???? Invest in a $400 air purifier?
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- Re: Classroom mold, how long until I... Hellfire
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This is a reply to # 1,890,950See an allergist Doctor. Ask them about Cholestyramine. Cholestyramine bonds to mold fungi in the human body. Then I assume it gets passed out of your body via human waste.
IN regards to a HEPA air filter. I own a Rabbit Air BioGS SPA-582A. This thing works GREAT! I have tested it with a particle counter which reads particles as small as .5µm. I put it in a room. Particle counts went from 500's down to 100's in 15 min. Here is the Air Quality scale on my particle counter.
3000+= Very Poor
1050-3000= Poor
300-1050= Fair
150-300= Good
75-150= Very Good
0-75 = Excellent
This device is awesome for finding problem areas in a home.
I hope you start to feel better soon! FYI, if you really want to find out what is going on in that classroom, you really need to have an AIR SAMPLE done which will measure mold spores /m3 and will identify all molds found. Mold spores indoors should be under 500/m3. If you find Stachybotrys which should be 0 in my oppinion, then you need to find out where this one is coming from!!
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- Re: Classroom mold, how long until I... #124755
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This is a reply to # 1,893,459Thank you!! I know I should get that filter,but for my size class it would be over $400. But my eyes feel like the've been rubbed by sandpaper, and they never did that over the Xmas break. And some students are having eye symptoms, too. So cleaning the AC didn't solve the whole problem. And they're never in a million years going to pull up the 5 year old carpet to get to the 15 year old carpet they left underneath! Idiots.
There is no state or federal agency that will test for mold. I called everywhere. It's a shame when people have to be poisoned at work.
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- Re: Classroom mold, how long until I... David144
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See a naturopath. One of our employees became ill and was suffering for almost 2 years with a runny nose. She would speak to people and her nose would just start dripping. I experienced similar myself being a mold inspector and going into many homes that are infested without protection. She went to a naturopath who recommended that she try going on just greens. I personally subscribe to a vegan diet, and as she was doing the diet, you could see the blood cells changing in her blood tests. And her runny nose went away. She lost a lot of weight as well in the process. It rebuilds the immune system which helps it fight off colds, and sinus buildup and things like that. Try juicing as well.
Hope that helps.
For mold testing and mold removal services in Ontario go to http://www.mold-removal-toronto.ca
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