Fwd: Re: [] Dr Enlander - MOLD?

[Guest guest]

someone asked my to ask Dr Enlander what he thought mold causing CFS

Dear Bob

Dr Crooks wrote a book many years ago on the thought that yeast

(candida , a

type of mold )caused CFS. I believe that candida can aggrevate CFS

as can

other molds. Sick buildings can create great problems in the immune

system, how

the mold acts on immunity we do not know, but obviously it is toxic.

I have a number of patients with mold problems and CFS. The mold

grows

behind damp sheetrock and the spores are inhaled.

The first order of priority is to remove the infected sheet rock or

site of

the mold, spray the adjacent area with strong bleach ,air and vacate

the room

, until the bleach dissipates. Swab the area two days later and

send the

swab for a mold culture. If there is still mold repeat the process.

One of my patients with the problem is a lawyer who has taken action

against

the building for allowing the mold problem to continue, I wrote a

report

relating to mold aggravating CFS, he won his case.

On the subject of Candida, one of the writers in your group sent us a

write

up on Knock Out Inc, a new company that has produced a new approach

to Candida

treatment. I will followup on that and Joy will report any news. You

seem to

be very active , keep up the good work.

Regards

Enlander MD

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In a message dated 1/9/2006 7:36:57 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

blue74730@y... writes:

I have had CFS for 30 years and two years ago I started having new

symptoms of migraines, brain-swelling, very loud tinnitis. I finally

crawled under my place and mold was growing rampant from some a/c

work

done several years ago. I am also on a list and

someone

on their asked me to ask Dr E if he thought mold could be a cause of

CFS? There are about 1,500 people on that list and all of them have

CFS, FM or both. I know a person who became ill with CFS at Incline

Village, NV in the famous 1984 breakout, who has become almost well

as

long as he stays away from mold. He has learned how to tell when he

is

around it. I also know that two virologist, Knox & Carrigan who have

been in a long time study of CFS and it seems they may have found

something?

Bob

[Guest guest]

>

Sick buildings can create great problems in the immune system,

how the mold acts on immunity we do not know, but obviously it is

toxic.

> I have a number of patients with mold problems and CFS.

Amazing.

After twenty years of being called crazy for asking CFS researchers

and doctors to investigate mold, suddenly mold is " obviously toxic " .

Yet they never asked the people at " ground zero " for the CFS

epidemic.

It was half the girls basketball team and the Truckee teachers that

caught the attention of Dr Cheney and Dr and got " CFS "

going.

This has been posted a number of times.

Maybe it will finally " Click " now.

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SICK-BUILDING-SYNDROME

CONCURRENT SICK BUILDING SYNDROME AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME:

EPIDEMIC NEUROMYASTHENIS REVISITED

Cases of sick building syndrome (SBS) associated with the

development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were described. Three

apparent outbreaks of SBS were investigated: high school teachers in

Elk Grove, California in 1989; federal government workers in

Washington, D.C. in 1986; and high school teachers in Truckee,

California in the 1980s. Reported symptoms included cough, headache,

sore throat, fatigue, colds, sinusitis, dizziness, memory loss, and

weakness. Illness deemed more serious than SBS was observed in nine

of the 10 teachers who frequently used a single conference room in

Truckee, five of the 22 responding teachers in Elk Grove, and nine

of the 93 responding office workers in Washington, D.C. Individuals

with severe fatigue tended to have symptoms of mucous membrane

irritation characteristic of SBS; in addition, however, they

frequently had neurological complaints not typical of SBS but

characteristic of CFS. The authors conclude that CFS can apparently

occur in the setting of SBS and may occur in predisposed individuals

after exposure to noninfectious agents.

Clinical Infectious Diseases; 18(Suppl 1):S43-S48, 1994. (45

references)

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