Barb

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Barb, heres what I've gotten from several abstracts, most fungi's

(mold) release spores while their growing,and blumming, but stachy

releases them when its drying. stachy has a slim covering it and can

to some point hold moisture a little longer because of that ,I think

the thickness of slim may be dependent on how much moisture and food

sorse is available. but its thought that bug's, pest's might eat away

this slim causeing stachy to dry out or enough to release spores if

it in a constant water sorse.. I've read that myco's from toxic

fungi's(molds)are released when food sorce is drying up and to

compete for space against other molds. myco's attach to spores and

other particles in the air. so they can be anywhere, not just where

mold or mold spores are. stachy spores with myco's attached can

remain toxic for several years even when dry. it looks like their can

be a lot of things involved in just the spore itself of several kinds

of molds and when you inhale spores its hard to say what involved,

their finding out more all the time. I did read that those who end up

with allergys will be alot sicker from mold exposure. theres also non-

medicated IgE effects that effects everyone,not sure what that means,

but with exposure to several molds that can be

allergenic,pathogenic,and toxic, plus voc's and no telling what else,

in your home where your breathing them contantly I can see where

people can become allergic or get allergic type diseases like

allergic asthma, sinusitis,allergys to foods(which I still think in

our case is a reaction to the myco's in certain foods and maybe other

things in foods that are body reacts to that we may of have been over

exposed to by inhaleing spores and voc's. when you think about it,

theres no telling what particles in the air get attached to spores

you inhale.my allergys came on in my second home with high

moisture,smell, and no dought voc's, I think the voc's were the

particles that played a part in my allergys I got to

roches,mites,trees,cows,cut grassalong with allergies to the same

molds that I was exposed to.(this is just my thought, because I

experienced no allergy type symptoms in my first home). spores might

have some miosture content that would attract many particles. this

are just some things that stuck in my mind while reading several

different abstracts, maybe because they made sence to me, there is a

lot of it still unknown, so I cant say I'm 100% accurate on this.

I'm still strugleing with weather the allergys are allergys or

reactions to the allergy testing, one reason for this is because

i'm " allergic " to cut grass and I believe its not the grass but the

particles that are stirred up when the grass is cut. EHC in texas

grows their own mold cultures for allergys testing because their can

be other toxins and things in the testing serum that could cause

false positives.I'm thinking that some allergy testing results to

molds could be positive just because you have a reaction because of

the mold/myco load in your body, but its only a theory of mine, it

may be a little of both. but I really think my food allergy to corn

is based on the fact that molds growing in my homes may of come

straight from a corn field and maybe there was tiny particles of corn

attached to them or something like that. I do know the molds in your

home come from the environment around you, inless its a cross

contamination

thing.

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> > Barb,

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> > The issues of mycotoxins aren't completely

> > settled yet. I'll try to

> > answer both this

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