4 Must Weapons To Kill Mold

              
     There are 4 absolutely necessary weapons that every household needs to kill mold.  You might be wondering if mold is a problem in your house.  Let's ask a few questions that will quickly make that assessment.  Is your basement wet?  Has your basement been flooded?  Do you use a basement dehumidifier in the humid months and leave it on?  Have you had leaks that it took you a long time to fix?  Are there any musty smells or black/white/green patches on walls or ceilings?  Does your bathroom ventilate well or does it stay wet really long?  If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you have mold.  While all houses have mold, this is referring to mold counts that affect health.

      How can mold affect your health?  Mold can cause or trigger asthma, mold allergy flare-up,allergies,  headaches, body aches, cognitive impairment, other respiratory problems, sinus headaches, and more.  Can Mold Destroy Your Health?  Mold affects the health of everyone in your house.  If you are the unlucky one, you can have a biotoxic reaction to mold that can have very serious health implications.  

     First weapon in fighting mold:

1.  Basement Dehumidifier:  Run a basement dehumidifier that can lower the humidity to around 50%.  This refers to the capacity of the dehumidifier and size of your basement.  For example, you may need a basement dehumidifier with a 70 quart capacity to prevent mold.  Because basements are below grade, the humidity levels are naturally high.  Mold grows in warm, dark, and damp places. Knowing how mold grows is key to preventing mold. This is a key point to remember.  Basements are the number one place to find mold according to the NIOSH. (National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health). Run dehumidifiers throughout the house as needed.  If you have wet crawl spaces, you need a crawl space dehumidifier.  There are other dehumidifiers designed to meet specific needs such as a room dehumidifier, whole house dehumidifier, and a portable dehumidifier. Use as needed.  Dehumidifiers are necessary to prevent mold in the first place especially in the basement.

2.  Allergy Air Purifiers:  To kill mold in the air, allergy air purifiers are the weapon of choice.  They are 99.97% effective in killing mold, bacteria, germ, viruses and fungi(mold).  Hepa filtration acts to absorb biological contaminants into the hepa filter.  Other components to consider:  ultraviolet air purifiers, negative ion generators, electrostatic air purifiers, and activated carbon filters.  Different But Necessary Components of An Allergy Air Purifiers  Clean the air of not just biological contaminants but also unwanted indoor air pollution which also affects health.  

3.  Clean all surfaces with mold removal products.  Once the basement door or any other place with mold opens up, mold spreads throughout the house.  Cleaning all surfaces with either a commercial mold removal product or Borax, will kill mold on surfaces.  This is a key thing to do.  You cannot let mold on surfaces.  It will cause unhealthy reactions

4.  Hepa vacuum all surfaces.  Once all surfaces are wiped down, a quality hepa vacuum needs to be used to suck up all the dead mold spores.  Dead mold spores still cause a reaction so they must be sucked up.  In purchasing a hepa vacuum, make sure that you buy one that will enable you to reach all surfaces including ceilings and walls.Hepa Vacuums To Purchase

It is obvious that all moldy materials need to be pitched as soon as possible.  Start in the basement.  Under no circumstances, should you carpet a basement.  The carpeting cannot stay mold free. The 4 steps above are essentials steps to kill mold, prevent mold and help your family breathe clean air.  Who know how many conditions you are preventing by taking these actions.  

The 4 steps are

1.  Run Basement Dehumidifier during humid months.

2.  Use Allergy Air Purifiers Throughout The House

3.  Clean all surfaces with Mold Removal Products

4.  Hepa Vacuum all surfaces.

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5 Reasons To Dehumidify Your Basement With A Basement Dehumidifier

Here are 5 reasons why you should dehumidifier your basement with a basement dehumidifier.  They are serious so pay attention as you too will suffer from these affect if you do not.

1.  To kill mold before it has a chance to grow by cutting off humidity.

2.  Basements are below grade and are wet, dark and damp offering mold a perfect places to grow.

3.  Mold grows in the basement on any porous and non- porous surface.  When you open the basement door it spreads through the house.  It is invisible in the air so you won't notice until it starts to smell and stink like mold.

4.  Mold exposure affects the health of everyone in the house.  Some get hit harder then others.  Healthy people feel lousy around mold but recover once out of the mold.  However, if you never leave the house, you are constantly exposed.  Mold triggers:  asthma, allergies, mold allergies, biotoxic reaction to mold which means that the untreated mold patient is constantly struggling with a worsening mold reaction.  This person lacks the immune response to create antibodies to kill mold.  Other problems:  trouble thinking, memory problems, headaches which can be severe, body aches and pains.  To read more check out the home page:  Can Mold Destroy Your Health?

5.  Humidity causes chemical off-gassing.  Sounds really nasty.  Well it is. Pretty much everything you own has chemicals leaching out of those items with high humidity:  carpeting, furniture, make-up, hobby supplies, construction materials, paints, etc.  Some these items contain known carcinogens:  VOCs  Volatile Organic Compounds;  Toluene, Formaldehyde, Radon, the many carcinogens in cigarette smoke, styrene used in making plastic and more.  Just to give you an idea why use of dehumidifiers are necessary especially in the basement.  Air Conditioners also dehumidify the air. However, too many folks turn them off to save money.  http://www.stopmoldcold.com/behealthy

                         

4 Must Steps To Kill And Prevent Mold

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 There are 4 absolutely essential steps that every homeowner should take to kill mold in their house.  Mold affects the health of everyone in the house.  If you have allergies, mold allergies, asthma or any other respiratory condition and want to breathe better of feel better then these steps are for you.  Read and take action.

1.  Use a dehumidifier for basement.  Basement dehumidifiers are made to handle the capacity or square footage of your basement.  The goal is to lower humidity to around 50%. Figure out the square footage of your basement and then make the purchase.  Consider how cold your basement gets as there are different temperatures where individual dehumidifiers will freeze up.  Energy efficiency is another must to consider.  Mold needs it to be on the damp side to grow.  Mold needs warm, dark and damp.  Basements are usually where mold originates.  

2.  Use allergy air purifiers throughout the house.  Allergy air purifiers scrub the air of mold and other biological contaminants.  These are the nasties we all want to get rid of:  bacteria, germs, viruses, fungi (mold). pollen, and chemicals.  The air is drawn into the machine in caught in the hepa filter.  Hepa filtration is 99.97% effective in capturing contaminants like mold.  If you look into the air, you will see nothing floating.  However, mold is invisible.  There are many features that can be purchased in an allergy air purifier. Different Types Of Allergy Air Purifiers/Components: You Must Read This

3.  Clean every surface in the house with Borax or some green mold cleaning solution.  I use Borax as it is easy on the lungs and is effective at killing mold.  Green means you develop the least reaction.  Every surface must be cleaned because mold is capable of traveling through the house.  This ensures that mold is killed on every surface.  Now this means every thing you owned will have mold killed.  Throw out any obvious moldy object like a cardboard box in the basement or wood that is black.  Anything porous in a wet basement is likely to be moldy.  Carpeting in the basement must be pitched.

4.  Hepa vacuum every surface to finish killing mold.  Dead mold spores although killed still evoke a mold response and must be captured by hepa filtration in a quality hepa vacuum.  Hepa vacuum often as mold is always in the house and is capable of growing in dirt.  A quality hepa vacuum should not spew dirt into the air.  If using a cleanable hepa filter, clean it outside or you will be defeating the purpose.

Since many mold allergy, asthma, allergy folks have breathing issues, it is vital that there is no strong odors in the air.  use of perfumes, laundry detergents, cleaning products etc with strong scents can cause asthma attacks.  Think through what you are going to do. Even paint will evoke a response.  Air out the area and keep the asthmatic out of the room.  If you have small children or infants, do not expose young delicate lungs to any strong odors.

So there you have the 4 vital steps to kill mold.  These steps are also the ones continuously done to prevent mold.  Live healthy... Be happy.  You can visit my http://www.stopmoldcold.com/behealthy for more information and purchase allergy air purifiers, basement dehumidifiers, hepa vacuums.

4 Steps To Kill And Prevent Mold

    

Can Mold Exposure Cause Migraines?

Bet you never really connected that mold exposure could cause migraines.  We know that mold allergies can cause sinus pressure and certainly headaches, aches and pains but migraines.? If you are one of the 25% that have a biotoxic reaction to mold, which means your body does not produce antibodies to kill mold toxins, you can have headaches that are so bad that they are misconstrued as migraines according to Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, mold specialist and researcher. Really don't care whether you call them nasty boy headaches migraines or not, but from personal experience, I do.  

    How does this happen?  Quite simply, these mold toxins move freely through the body including having the ability to pass the blood brain barrier and wreak havoc on the brain.  Not only can you have severe headaches but also bleeding on the brain if continued to have mold exposure.  

   So what can you so if you are in these shoes?  First you need to go to a mold doctor like Shoemaker and see through scientific testing and a rather intensive protocol and see if that is the issue. Most doctors and specialists don't agree with this 21st century diagnosis despite over1,000 research documents that prove so.  If so, you really need to kill mold in your house and then take measures to prevent mold.  Constant mold exposure is good for no one.  

   Leaks must be immediately repaired.  Do not give mold what it thrives on:  moisture and humidity. If you do not have a basement dehumidifier running, get one and turn it on to decrease humidity to around 50%.  Mold loves dark, damp places and is found mostly in basements for starters. Then place allergy air purifiers throughout the house to snatch mold and effectively kill mold because it is trapped in the HEPA filter.  Wipe everything down with Borax and then Hepa vacuum all surfaces. 

   In the meantime, get treated for the nasty headaches.  They are no fun.  Because mold exposure can interferes with concentration, memory also, it is all the more important to kill mold.  These symptoms come along with the headaches.  Guess the good news is that no, you are not going senile! Even if you do not have these symptoms, it is not a good idea to expose your family to mold.  Could mold exposure cause Alzheimer's; don't know?  But there is still a lot of learning to be accomplished in medicine.

Migraines Are No Fun!

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Do You Feel Lousy All The Time?

  Some people consider it ‘Yuppie Syndrome” or maybe you work too many hours, but you never really feel rested and you are always tired.  There is a need to get to the bottom of this.  Will the fatigue get worse with age?  Wow that would really stink.  What causes chronic fatigue?  Let’s look at a few possibilities that you should consider.

     Have allergies?  Allergies like mold allergies, dirt mite allergies and just allergies can drain you of your energy.  There is a battle going on inside.  It is important to treat the allergies but go further.  Those allergens and dirt mites need to be gone from your house.  To do that, use a dehumidifier in the basement to stop humdity and mold from growing.  Mold is a trigger for allergies and mold allergies and can trigger asthma attacks.  High humidity can also cause the dirt mite population to grow. 

     Clean the air of pollen.  You do that by using allergy air purifiers throughout the house.  Docs often tell you to run them in the bedroom which is certainly a idea.  But you have mold and pollen all through your house.  Use allergy air purifiers according to the square footage of your house.

    Last step.  Clean everything with Borax. Thorough cleaning is always beneficial. Use a hepa vacuum to clean up dead mold spores and suck up pollen left on surfaces.  Always close windows at night as that is when pollen count increases.

    See if you feel better then.  If not keep going to see if your fatigue is the result of some underlying condition. Make sure that you are eating fairly often.  Healthy meals certainly make a difference if eaten through the day.  And don’t eat too much as that makes anyone fatigued.  Lots of folks have terrible eating habits that will certainly lead to fatigue.

   Sleep at regular intervals.  Figure out how much sleep you need and don’t over do it.  Everyone has a sleeping pattern.  Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep.  The Lord told us to take a Sabbath.  Well, do you?  Are you always doing something 7 days a week.  You need to chill out on that one day. It heals and refreshes you.  Read the Bible”  Proverbs are great.  Poetry or engage in meaningful conversation with a spouse or friend.  Reduce stress by getting some exercise.

     Hope this helps.  The tips to have the dehumidifiers, allergy air purifiers and hepa vacuum are a must for every home. Mold exposure is not good for the health of anyone. To kill and prevent mold also decreases pollen and dirt mites.

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Winter Means Colds, Asthma, Pneumonia; Time to Kill Mold

     In the winter, it is nice to cuddle up by a fire and read a book or hang our with someone you love.  Problem is sooner or later you get really sick.  Now why do we get sick in the winter and not summer?  We spend even less time outside.  Indoor air is more polluted than outside air.  Throw in the mold that is being blown around your house because the ducts weren't cleaned.  The air around us is something really to think about; too many chemicals, mold, bacteria,viruses.etc..
    Winter does not have to mean sickness.  Use mold air purifiers to kill mold in the air.  Using hepa filtration, mold air purifiers are great at collecting contaminants like mold,viruses, bacteria, and germs.  It is like a well kept secret to have mold air purifiers in your house.  It should be the norm that everyone have  mold air cleaners throughout the house; no one told you that these wonderful machines can clean the air so well.  maybe you would not feel as sluggish.
   To prevent mold and kill mold on surfaces, hepa vacuum all surfaces.  Again, these vacuums suck up the dirt and do not throw anything back into the air like the old vacuums.
   More tips:  even though it is cold, open the window a bit.  Freshen the air.  The old drafty houses let more air in then the modern homes;no drafts in those houses.  Newer houses are less healthy for being so air tight.  good for the heating bill; bad for the health. 

    Let sun shine in; make sure curtains are open on a sunny day.  The sun is very good for you.  Remember, mold grows in warm, dark and damp places.  So remember to keep the curtains open.  hope you and your family have a healthy winter
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