Guest guest Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 PS. even if your not genitically allergy prone mold inhalation can act as a irritant on the airways which could cause infection and immune activation.. > > thinking you said it was. without looking it up, I'm thinking it's > mainly allergenic and of corse pathogenic but I'm thinking it doesn't > produce mycotoxins which may explain why you say you only react > around live mold growth. if it doesn't produce mycotoxins you could > be suffering from mycosis but not mycotoxicosis.not that mycosis cant > be misserable by itself. > mycotoxicosis and mycosis > sometimes cunfused, are not the same. > disease cauded by mycotoxins is mycotoxicosis, disease caused by mold > is mycosis. > mycotoxicosis accures when mycotoxins enter the body, ill health is > caused by the actions of mycotoxins on the cells in the body, not > contagious, and no significant stimulation of the immune system. > Mycosis occur when molds infect tissues of the body, can be > contagious, molds began to grow in or on the body after infections > are established.there may be stimulation of the immune system. > different mycotoxins can cause different diseases even though they > are all called mycotoxicosis, they are very different from each other. > > mycotoxins suppress the immune system, I take this to mean that it > gets in and works on our body without our bodys defence system > reconizeing it and therefore does not mount a immune responce. > most people exposed while suffer from both at the same time., > makeing it hard to understand the difference. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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