Posted on 11/25/2018 9:52:33 AM PST by antidemoncrat
If your workplace is experiencing high levels of mold in the air and the folks in charge ignore the problem leading to prolong exposures to it, you can end up with a life long problem every time the weather produces a high mold reading.
I’m also leery of central air conditioning. The crud in the ducts is on the express to your lungs.
All this has nothing to do with the dirt outdoors, which gets washed on a regular basis. I have no objection to the soil, nor to the bugs, outdoors where the Lord put them. But in your living space you have to do a lot of killing. :-)
Since we’re all weighing in here, I’ll give my take:
1) If the kid had a suppressed immune system, it is incumbent on her PARENTS to make damn sure that wherever she stayed was healthy - FOR HER. Obviously they failed.
2) I lived 4 years in an old house where I sneezed and blew my nose constantly, every day. Moved out, into a new home, one week later it stopped, never to return in now 20 years. Exact same for a co-worker, even though she refuses to believe it.
3) One of my kids was in an apartment. If you walked in, it was ‘musty’. First floor, so couldn’t open the windows. Same symptoms as above. Told him to move out, to higher story where he could open windows - all gone.
4) Things are different in ‘the industry’ these days - now buildings are SEALED to the best extent possible, which mold (along with environmentalists) absolutely love. In the day, the buildings breathed, much healthier for those inside (not just mold-related, but keeping Carbon Dioxide levels down along with keeping Oxygen levels up).
5) Mold doesn’t affect everyone. In my case, out of 5 people and one kid (part time), only me, so don’t be fooled if some are healthy.
6) I agree with the others regarding ‘radon’ - it’s a scam.
That’s a fair question that I cannot answer with accuracy. I do know most of the people we deal with who have “Ensure” or similar drinks tell me it tastes awful and don’t drink it, & we toss lots of it out when we do clean-outs.
Good for them. My wife fought tooth and nail with the nursing home her mother was in to keep that crap away from her. My(late) mother-in-law have very compromised breathing capacity and that stuff would have put her in the ground sooner.
Any flat roof building is highly susceptible to leaks. My wife’s school had roof leaks that got into the walls. For months the teachers complained about mold smells which the administration denied but then made the teachers vacate their rooms and went in, tore the sheet rock off the walls and sprayed for mold and replace sheet rock. Unfortunately some teachers ended up with permanent lung damage that requires them to use meds like PRoAIR HFA every time there it is rainy and the mold content in air shoots up.
It’s not just the U of Md. Try to find a campus today where the snowflakes don’t outnumber the intellectually alert!
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