Mold & Your Health

Mold causes disease through two mechanisms:

Mycoses - fungi infects a human host and causes disease

Toxicoses - toxins produced by the fungi cause disease



General Symptoms - Headaches, lethargy, fatigue, poor concentration, systemic effects of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Eye Findings - Irritant or allergic conjunctivitis (burning, sensation of dryness, redness)

Nasal Manifestations - Rhinorrhea, nasal obstruction, irritant rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis

Respiratory Manifestations - Chest tightness, cough and/or fever, shortness of breath with exertion, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, infectious pneumonia (Legionella, aspergillus, tuberculosis), respiratory hemorrhage, lung cancer

Oropharyngeal Manifestations - dryness, irritation of the throat.

Skin Manifestations - Dryness, irritation, rash

Other Adverse Effects - damage to the nervous system, kidneys, liver, brain, blood, skin damage, cancer and even death.