Guest guest Posted November 9, 2006 Report Posted November 9, 2006 > >Contaminated items can and will transfer contamination to a new and >clean place, and even establish new living mold colonies (albeit >non-visible if there's limited amount of moisture). Elevated air >moisture or condensation is usually sufficient for this to happen. Obviously if you give spores the favorable conditions you will have a problem. I have no argument here. My argument is if you put humans in contact with common contaminated household items in an otherwise clean environment. They WILL NOT react to them. It's just my hunch, I can be persuaded with reputable science that points to either way. But still have not seen any. I could also be persuaded by carefully conducted test's on myself which I intend to do. > >It appears that some people will not react to this level of >contamination (they react only to visible mold and high concentrations >of mycotoxins), but there are some of us who do react even to this >level of contamination. I consider myself amongst the highest of reactors. So I should definitely be inside this group but I am not. Further, this is anecdotal I admit but if you read my previous post's you know I brought more than enough items to my brothers house to contaminate it. 2 1/2 years later I stayed there for 5 days and felt nothing but relief from where I was staying in my mold ridden trailer. Not saying I was cured but it is probably the best environment I have been in baring being outdoors. Conversely a year and a half prior to that I was sick the whole time I was there because I brought this monitor http://home.tampabay.rr.com/rchrist9/Moldy%20Monitor.shtml with me and sat in front of it more than a few hours a day. I was profoundly ill. The difference is that this monitor had albeit small, actual LIVING mold colonies on it. >There is nothing extraordinary in what he said. Read this peer >reviewed scientific document: Something that defy's common sense DOES qualify as extraordinary regardless of weather it's real or not. The fact that the earth is 4 billion years old is extraordinary, the theory that the entire universe was once encompassed an area thousands of times smaller than the head of a pin is incredibly extraordinary. but they have much better evidence to back this up than what you have presented to me here to further your argument: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN & cpsidt=4847462 I will first preface this with I have no question of the legitimacy of the test's at pub med. But you have NOT shown any evidence of profound human reactivity to common household items contaminated under normal circumstances one would expect in a house with severe mold issues. You haven't shown the longevity of mycotoxins on real world belongings deposited by natural conditions, from a home with severe mold issues. Instead you have shown what their longevity is in sealed ampoules and in special solutions. Also there is no information on how these toxins were obtained. Are they synthetic or are they actual samples taken from specific species of mold? > >I have a hypothesis - and this is just my conjecture - that these >stable mycotoxins serve as a very good " protective shield " for the >species of molds that originally produced them. Let's take an object >that is contaminated with, say, T-2 toxin which was produced by >Fusarium mold. The spores of the original Fusarium that are still >present on that object, or the spores of Fusarium that drop on that >object from the " new " place, will have the competitive egde over the >other, commoner molds because of this toxin, and will be able to >overcome other molds. A little condensation or higher humidity will do >the job, and you'll have the problem again. I pretty much always took this as a given. Sounds logical to me. >So, think twice before you take your contaminated objects to a clean >place. I plan on doing just this under controlled conditions, specifically because I want to know the facts. If I find what you and others have been saying all along here is right I will be the first to come back to this forum and say I was wrong. Quote
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2006 Report Posted November 9, 2006 All I really can say to you at this point is your monitor looks so clean it is not funny, you want to see a moldy monitor go look at mine in the groups photos. Sit in front of that one awhile and see what happens... Christ <antares41_41@...> wrote: > >Contaminated items can and will transfer contamination to a new and >clean place, and even establish new living mold colonies (albeit >non-visible if there's limited amount of moisture). Elevated air >moisture or condensation is usually sufficient for this to happen. Obviously if you give spores the favorable conditions you will have a problem. I have no argument here. My argument is if you put humans in contact with common contaminated household items in an otherwise clean environment. They WILL NOT react to them. It's just my hunch, I can be persuaded with reputable science that points to either way. But still have not seen any. I could also be persuaded by carefully conducted test's on myself which I intend to do. > >It appears that some people will not react to this level of >contamination (they react only to visible mold and high concentrations >of mycotoxins), but there are some of us who do react even to this >level of contamination. I consider myself amongst the highest of reactors. So I should definitely be inside this group but I am not. Further, this is anecdotal I admit but if you read my previous post's you know I brought more than enough items to my brothers house to contaminate it. 2 1/2 years later I stayed there for 5 days and felt nothing but relief from where I was staying in my mold ridden trailer. Not saying I was cured but it is probably the best environment I have been in baring being outdoors. Conversely a year and a half prior to that I was sick the whole time I was there because I brought this monitor http://home.tampabay.rr.com/rchrist9/Moldy%20Monitor.shtml with me and sat in front of it more than a few hours a day. I was profoundly ill. The difference is that this monitor had albeit small, actual LIVING mold colonies on it. >There is nothing extraordinary in what he said. Read this peer >reviewed scientific document: Something that defy's common sense DOES qualify as extraordinary regardless of weather it's real or not. The fact that the earth is 4 billion years old is extraordinary, the theory that the entire universe was once encompassed an area thousands of times smaller than the head of a pin is incredibly extraordinary. but they have much better evidence to back this up than what you have presented to me here to further your argument: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN & cpsidt=4847462 I will first preface this with I have no question of the legitimacy of the test's at pub med. But you have NOT shown any evidence of profound human reactivity to common household items contaminated under normal circumstances one would expect in a house with severe mold issues. You haven't shown the longevity of mycotoxins on real world belongings deposited by natural conditions, from a home with severe mold issues. Instead you have shown what their longevity is in sealed ampoules and in special solutions. Also there is no information on how these toxins were obtained. Are they synthetic or are they actual samples taken from specific species of mold? > >I have a hypothesis - and this is just my conjecture - that these >stable mycotoxins serve as a very good " protective shield " for the >species of molds that originally produced them. Let's take an object >that is contaminated with, say, T-2 toxin which was produced by >Fusarium mold. The spores of the original Fusarium that are still >present on that object, or the spores of Fusarium that drop on that >object from the " new " place, will have the competitive egde over the >other, commoner molds because of this toxin, and will be able to >overcome other molds. A little condensation or higher humidity will do >the job, and you'll have the problem again. I pretty much always took this as a given. Sounds logical to me. >So, think twice before you take your contaminated objects to a clean >place. I plan on doing just this under controlled conditions, specifically because I want to know the facts. If I find what you and others have been saying all along here is right I will be the first to come back to this forum and say I was wrong. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go... --------------------------------- Sponsored Link For just $24.99/mo., Vonage offers unlimited local and long- distance calling. Sign up now. Quote
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