Category Archives: air quality
Seattle Children’s operating rooms closed for mold
Aspergillus mold was discovered in Seattle Children’s Hospital. The hospital has been closed while it is air handling utilities are inspected. A professional hygienist has been called in to help the hospital bring the air handling unit up to speed. … Continue reading
A Noxious Substance: Mold
Noxious substance Potentially mold can cause health problems. Many of these health problems are due to the fact that mold can be an allergen as well as a toxin and carcinogen. Allergens are the core of allergic reactions. Toxins are … Continue reading
Introducing Cladosporium
Cladosporium is a genus of mold that rarely produces lethal disease in humans except for causing skin and nail, sinus and lung infections. There are about forty individual species of Cladosporium, most of which are plant pathogens. When Cladosporium species spores are … Continue reading
Green Winter: Don’t Let Mold Take Over.
Locked up for winter, trapped with the stale recirculating air. Guess what’s living in your winter-sale air? Mold spores, of course.It can be especially bad in a tight new home because all of that stale air has been circulating along … Continue reading
Susan Somers New House Had Mold
Susan Somers says that mold almost ruined her life. Her new house had toxic mold in the air conditioning and heating ducts, spreading mold spores through the air system, causing Somers and her husband a number of symptoms. Somers wrote … Continue reading
List of Plaintiffs in Northwood Centre Lawsuit
Victims claim airborne mold and animal feces made them sick, and they are suing Northwood Centre. The number has escalated to more than 86 from 20. Some claim they were unaware they were working in unhealthy conditions. Raw sewage backed … Continue reading
ByeByeMold Has a New Presence on Facebook and Twitter
Mold has an adverse affect on the very sick, the very old and the very young. That’s why ByebyeMold’s most recent ads on Facebook show an infant in the arms of his concerned father. Every parent is going to be … Continue reading
Mold: More symptoms than you can shake a stick at
According to one study, many cases of mold-linked illness can’t be explained by allergic reactions. A report by allergists David A. Edmondson, DO, Jordan N. Fink, MD, and colleagues at Medical College of Wisconsin, appeared in the February 2005 issue … Continue reading
Indoor Air Quality Experts
There is more than one thing involved in air quality. There are plenty of toxins out there. Indoor air quality can be affected by Carbon monoxide, radon, cigarette smoke, whatever toxins are floating around in the smoggy air outside your … Continue reading
Do you have mold?
You probably have mold if: You spell a moldy odor. You see mold. You have a water leak. You have had more rain that normal. You have had a flood in the past. You have condensation on your windows. You … Continue reading
Not so hidden mold
Maybe you’ve been the round with your doctors and can’t find the cause. Maybe there are terrible headaches, or nausea, or swollen faces, and you can’t figure out what it is. Maybe it is mold in your home. Tightly sealed … Continue reading
World Health Organization Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality
World Health Organization Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.
Mold Prevention
Molds are microscopic organisms that live on plant or animal matter. In the natural world, mold aids in the breakdown of dead material and recycle nutrients in the environment. That includes your house, and any of your property that is … Continue reading
Sandy Sickness
Wikipedia has dubbed an illness “Katrina cough.” Here is what they say about it: Katrina cough is a putative respiratory illness thought to be linked to exposure to mold and dust after the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States. … Continue reading
University of Louisville Student Resident Building Taken Over by Mold
High level of mold spores were detected in one of the residence halls of the University of Louisville. 270 students were requested to move out from the building. Mold spores specifically occupied University of Louisville’s Miller Hall on its Belknap … Continue reading
More on Mold
If you don’t live in a hermetically sealed bunker (See Sarah in Eureka), you can expect to have mold. But like the percentage of allowable mold or rat hair in peanut butter, there’s an allowable percentage of mold that health … Continue reading
Mold Allergy
Not all mold is lethal. Some molds are actually poisonous; but most are intrinsically harmless. Part of the problem with mold is that people have the capacity to develop responses to harmless mold. We develop allergies. We develop allergic sensitization … Continue reading
Pollen Count and mold levels
If you react to mold in the air, you can keep track of whether your area is in the midst of a dangerous level of mold by following http://www.aaaai.org/global/nab-pollen-counts.aspx which tracks mold levels. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & … Continue reading
Does the Villa Cortina complex have a Mold Problem?
Villa Cortina tenant Bethany Anderson attributes her family’s illnesses to mold growing in her apartment. Testing by a private investigator turned up toxic mold. Anderson says “I believed it was mold. There solution was changing my air filter. They’ve now … Continue reading
Can blank mold spread if my windows are open?
Another question from the BYEBYEMOLD Archive CAN BLACK MOLD ON THE PATIO CEILING FALL ON MY BED CLOTHES AND FURNITURE IF I HAD MY SLIDING GLASS DOOR OPEN. CAN IT BE BLOWN ON TO EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE BY THE … Continue reading
From the Archives of Bye Bye Mold: Could there be mold in my Furnace?
I had my basement finished in my old home this past winter. Suddenly there is a mold smell in the furnace room that appears dry. The duct work and furnace are 3 1/2 yrs old. The duct work was cleaned … Continue reading
Knox Box apartments equals Box of Mold, Future Lawsuit
A property, the Knox Box Apartments, managed by Gorman Management had a published mold count of over 3000 inside. Now we don’t know if someone stirred something up before they took measurements, but I’m here to say–that’s a lot of … Continue reading
From the Archives of Byebye Mold: Are there reliable tests to indicate the presence of mold?
Are there reliable tests to indicate the presence of mold? Almost all of us already have two effective mold detectors: our eyes and our noses. If black or green discoloration is noticed that is fuzzy in appearance and is in … Continue reading
Prescription: Mold on Wood
If mold infiltrates soft goods, it’s pretty much the end of them. But when something is hard, the mold may simply be superficial. If that is the case, then it can be cleaned up and resurrected. If you have wooden … Continue reading
When you need Help with a Mold Problem
A mold screening test is used to determine if a mold antigen is present in your living environment. A mold diagnostic is a full lab analysis on the type and size of your mold problem. You may need a dehumidifier. … Continue reading
How Can a AIr Purifier Help this Moldy House?
A problem with mold is that when it is dry, it sends out spores into the air. So how do you get them out of circulation? By filtration, of course. Air purifiers reduce mold spores from the air inside your … Continue reading
Mold is everywhere.
Here’s the problem with mold: The spores are everywhere. They just float around in the air, waiting for time and the opportunity to land on something edible like cellulose. Some areas there aren’t as many spores (like, say, in the … Continue reading
Dehumidifiers are Aquarium Owners Friend
Toxic mold growing in carpet can be worsened by fish tanks, especially if they leak. Placing the fish tanks over a hard, cleanable surface can help control the mold. Dehumidifiers can help, and also flow-through ventilation can help dry the … Continue reading
School Mold Affects Health
Temperature control—i.e. keeping temperatures low at 60 degrees—is not the healthiest way to keep down mold. Emily C. Watkins Elementary School in LaPlace is keeping the thermostat at 60 to reduce humidity. Reduced humidity does help prevent mold, but the … Continue reading
The MoldCast
Mold hits the highest September level in ten year record on. The mold spores count in D.C. rose to 47,483 spores per cubic meters, the highest in the U.S. Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab’s ten year record for September. September … Continue reading