5 Odd Places To Find Mold

 Since mold exposure is bad for your health, you must make sure that all mold in your house is gone.  All houses  have some mold.  You cannot get rid of all mold.  However, mold levels need to be as low as possible.  Obvious mold growth is a big time no.  You can review major places to find mold, for starters:  Basement Mold; Stop Mold In These Places

     Those are the big places that usually occur.  So clean them as if there is mold there.  Mold spores are invisible floating through the air.  When they are visible such black on a cardboard box in the basement, pitch the box.  Today's blog is on odd places to find mold. 

1.  The Cat litter:  Think about it.  You have absorbent product absorbing pee that is  warm, in a dark place (usually the basement) and damp because it is wet.  Mold can grow quickly within 25 - 48 hours.  For the double whammy, many folks with mold allergies also have cat allergy.  This needs to be cleaned every other day.  Another tip is adding baking soda to help kill the mold.

2.  The dog's dish:  You would not think of mold in the dog's dish.  But if you clean it every other month, chances are it will accrue mold.  Many dog's let their food in the bowl and do not eat it all.  Dog's dishes also come with a water bowl attached.  That can easily spill and end up under the dish undetected.  Move the dish when you clean.  Clean the dish itself at least once a week.

3.  Rotting leaves right next to your house:  if you leave them they rot and create leaf mold.  Open the windows to get that much needed clean air and you have mold blowing into the house.  Rake the leaves away from the house. Spring Cleaning To Kill Mold

4.  In the Refrigerator:  Food gets moldy also.  The mold on food also causes a reaction.  That mold is Penicillium.  As soon as you open the refrigerator, you let mold our into the rest of the house.  Clean your refrigerator at least once a week.  Pitch food that is old.  Check jars of food.  Start dating food if you are not sure how old the food is.

5. HVAC Ducts:  Condensation can form in the ducts.  These ducts must be cleaned to ensure that there is no condensation inside them.  If there is, when you turn on the heat, you are effectively blowing mold through your house.

Consider that 3 out of every 4 houses have an asthmatic patient.  Some homes have more than one.  It is amazing that traditional medicine is stuck on prescribing medicine and does not access environmental factors such as mold and indoor air pollution.  It is the goal of this blog for you to consider what environmental factors could affect the health of your family.  Do not blow off getting rid of mold.  Do not assume that your child's asthma and allergies are just caused by pollen. Mold aggravates allergies and can cause mold.

The steps necessary to stop mold and kill mold are:

1.  Dehumidify your basement with a basement dehumidifier.

2.  Use allergy air purifiers throughout the house.

3.  Clean all surfaces with Borax.  Pitch obviously moldy items.

4.  Hepa vacuum all surfaces after they have been cleaned.  Purchase a quality hepa vacuum.

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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

                         

Too Many People Dying Young

  Now what does that mean?  When you pick up the paper how many people are in the obituaries at the age of 40 or 50 or so?  More than should be.  At least 10% or more in my area.  You do not know because of the HIPPA laws.  Know a health professional working on a cancer unit and he was taken back by how many people were in their 40's and 50's dying of cancer.  The question is how did they get there? Were they doomed by poor genetics or can you alter the path of genetics and what is the key to doing that?

    Lots of questions but where are the answers and why does medicine not seem like it is in a hurry to find out why.  Don't get me wrong.  Where would we all be without the wonders of medicine.  I personally would be dead for many reasons.  I take life saving medicines that do just that: save my life on a daily basis.

     How can you improve your overall health so that cancer, heart attack, stroke or some other horrible life robbing disease does not come your way?  A balanced life of good diet, exercise, stress coping, inspiration, and a positive outlook go a long way.  

    Now to go further.  How can you make your house healthy so you will stay healthy.  Go upstairs into the bathroom and count the number of shampoos, hair products, dental products, air fresheners etc all chemicals and how many of them really necessary.  Under your sink somewhere are how many cleaning products?  What about wall to wall carpeting which contains VOCs:  Volatile Organic Compounds:  cyclohexene,toluene, styrene which are use to stain proof and contained in the latex backing.  Some of these compounds are either known carcinogens or suspected.  This research comes from The Johns Hopkins Magazine Article:  "Home Sick Home"  September, 2000.  In the early 1990's USC did research on 362 homes and found DDT in the carpeting of 90 homes.  I guess we better start doing a better job of wiping our feet on the little rug in the entrance way.

   There is so much more in this article but I do not want to overwhelm you.  I prefer and use hardwood flooring because my husband noticed a dramatic improvement in my health after removing carpeting.  Healthy carpeting free of these chemicals is very expensive.  If you are going to go with carpeting, it is suggested by this article to leave the windows open, use fans to pull out the VOC off-gassing which occurs  a lot of which occurs when installed and let the gasses literally go out the window.  Deep cleaning your carpets is necessary as well as the use of dehumidifiers to keep chemical off gassing from occurring in general in your house.  Start with a dehumidifier for basement and dehumidify any other area.

    Since 90% of time is spent indoors, make sure it is healthy air as possible.  Open the windows when you can.  Run allergy air purifiers, period.  They kill mold, pull in biological contaminants like germs, bacteria, viruses, pollen, and if have activated charcoal aggravating fumes and chemicals.  Read more at: Warning: Your House Is Very Polluted!  

Imagine the battles of these loved ones with cancer.

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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Asthma, Colds, Pnuemonia All Winter Long: Kill Mold

     Some folks dread the winter months.There seems to be someone sick at all times until spring comes. Asthma flares, colds that never seem to end, and finally pneumonia which certainly is serious if you get it every year. Please consider some environmental factors in being sick  Wet basements mean mold exposure.  Mold can affect health causing asthma, chronic sinus congestion and a whole host of other problems including upper respiratory conditions like emphysema and airway restrictive disease.Kill mold in the basement and improve the health of your family.

       How do you kill mold and attack that wet basement? Start by using a dehumidifier in the basement.  Pitch all the moldy stuff which means cardboard boxes, books, wood  and any other porous materials. (Pretty much anything that would suck up mold including clothes).  Dirt crawl spaces need to be covered with heavy plastic because they give off mold spores.  Do not leave laundry in the basement for any extended periods of time. Get rid of carpeting in the basement; regardless of how you dehumidify the carpet will be moldy in the basement.   In order to kill mold, you need to dehumidify the basement and not store porous materials in the basement period.
     Other places to consider for mold appearing are finished building:  drywall, foundation walls, and floor joints,  Sometime the job seems to overwhelming to do alone. There are professionals that specialize in mold remediation  To kill mold is vital to the health of your family.  According to FEMA, mold can grow between 24 to 48 hours after water intrusion.  They recommend cleaning all surfaces with 1 and  a fourth cup of bleach to 1 gallon of water. Lot to know and do; but if you keep at it will be done because the healh of your family is far too inportant.   Live Healthy...Be Happy

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