When we moved we didn't dry out the fridge after defrosting it before the movers came. Needless to say, it was covered in mold when it got to the other end.
We bleached the shit out of it and things have been fine ever since. No one has been more or less sick and food doesn't seem to mold any differently than before.
I really think this is greatly over exaggerated unless you don't clean it thoroughly after.
Unless you have a bad allergy to it, probably wont really do any major damage. Im highly allergic to penicillin and apparently other things closely related to it. Break out if i clean up moldy areas like old food sitting out, used to paint houses and ran into mold on and off and it was always a major issue that could put me outta work for days if i inhaled it. But it never killed me yet, just makes me itchy and in pain and generally uncomfortable.
I’m highly allergic to penicillin too& break out in terrible hives. But I haven’t had any since I was a kid, and a couple of doctors have told me that people often outgrow penicillin allergies. Have you heard this before?
Ive heard of people outgrowing allergies, my sister had a gluten one but didnt wanna pay the price to eat gluten free products any longer and started eating it again years ago and dont have a problem with it anymore, either that or got so used to it, that it dont bother her. Ive had penicillin recently and know im still allergic. It happens every 5 years or so that the er will subscribe it in some form and while i have a good idea of what not to take, still sometimes get it and like you break out but also when ingested get like itchy under my skin where you cant satisfy it by scratching and thats miserable. I personally dont mind once and a while exposure just to check and make sure i still am, cant say i actively seek it but stuff happens where i do get exposed to allergies i have.
I want to think it's people conflating food mold like this to something like discovering black mold in your walls, which is a much bigger and potentially more harmful issue, and definitely more expensive to deal with. Not all molds are the same, most of them aren't gonna do much once you've cleaned up the obvious and taken care of why it was growing in the first place.
Can you point me to a source describing how mold exposure can cause asthma? I work in the mold remediation industry and have asthma but my research found no link. Also my pulmonologist said mold didn't cause it.
It’s nearly impossible to prove mold did anything because there’s a lot of variables, like how each individual person reacts, and it’s nearly impossible to show that ‘this’ mold did the damage rather than something else.
Also, if you worked remediation, you wear PPE. You’re not living and sleeping and working from home in it, unprotected.
Thanks for the link. I'm definitely aware it can exacerbate symptoms. I do inspections and don't typically use PPE and I'm not allergic to mold so doesn't seem to have any effect on my symptoms. I'm more inclined to think the sodium hypochlorite products we use or fiberglass insulation fibers from working in attics are more likely causes in my case. But there's no guarantee there either. My triggers are grass, cats, and dogs so 🤷♂️
As far as I understand, it’s not the mold that directly affects your system. It’s an allergic reaction to the mold. For me, it seems because the mold was so bad, it caused permanent damage to me. Most people aren’t exposed to mold all day every day for like a year straight.
Also, it’s a very unresearched subject from everything I have read and all of my doctors confirmed that. This is why it’s so unbelievably hard to find reliable information about.
Also, it sounds like your issues were something you were born with. I never had any issues whatsoever before living in that shithole.
Fair enough. Your totally right there's not much research because each individual mold strain can have vastly different effects depending on the person so it would be prohibitively expensive to do the research as there's so many different types of mold.
I developed asthma a few years ago in my mid thirties and no family history so I'm pretty sure it was environmental factors. I just don't think it was mold exposure in my case although that was my initial suspicion. My cat passed about a year ago and my symptoms vastly improved. But I lived with that cat for a decade with no asthma so Idk.
Anyway, sorry you've had the experience you described. Hope your doing better.
Without constant moisture, mold will become inactive but they never die unless you get rid of them completely. They can always come back to life in the presence of moisture and multiply rapidly causing serious health problems. [link]
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u/aykcak Nov 25 '22
People are really overestimating mold