How much mold does it take to make you sick?

How much mold does it take to make you sick? How do you know if the amount you have found at your job or in your home is enough to be concerned about?

Mold release mycotoxins, which are toxins, into your body. It is not an allergy.

As you are exposed to mold, your body will accumulate the toxins and will become weaker and less effective in its efforts to fight it. This is why no one is immune to mold.

This is what happened my husband and I. He lived in the same house that I did for the four years we were married and was not as sick as I was, which is why it took us so long to figure out that it was the house making me sick. I figured, if he wasn’t sick, then the problem could not be environmental. Wrong. Everyone reacts differently to mold. It wasn’t until he began to have symptoms that we realized what was happening.

There are 10,000 mold spores in the space the size of a pen dot. I will let that sink in for a moment.

As for how many spores are too many, that depends on you. It depends on how well your body can flush the toxins and how quickly your body reacts to being poisoned.

The difference in reactions is similar to someone with severe allergies. For example, some people can eat a peanut butter sandwich and are fine. Others can not eat jelly that was spread with a knife that had previously been used for peanut butter without reacting.

You are reacting the toxins being released into your body. Your body is being slowly poisoned.

The severity of your reaction depends on your body’s ability to flush the toxins and it’s ability to kill the mold before it starts growing a colony inside your body.

After struggling with infertility, our doctor asked if we had checked our house for mold, stating that mold can cause the same fertility issues we were having. My husband checked the house.

When we pulled off the paneling in our basement, we found mold growing up our walls. These photos were taken AFTER we unsuccessfully tried to clean it. Please DO NOT CLEAN it until you read my post on proper cleaning. We cleaned the mold in our house wrongly and as a result we lost everything we owned.

The photos show the discoloration were the mold ate through the paint. The shower floor photo was taken after my husband spent 2 hours scrubbing on it. The mold was two inches thick. There was actually more mold than this.