RE: Re: cross contamination

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erikmoldwarrior <erikmoldwarrior@...> wrote:

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> What do people do about pets??

If pets stay out of contaminated areas, they're no problem at all to a

mold responder.

Amazingly enough, it was the SEVERITY of my hyperreactivity that

reached a stage in which I could point at specific molds and discount

other benign molds which allowed me a greater freedom than being at

the interim lesser " generalized " " Universal Responder " state.

It allowed be to start avoiding those particular toxin formers alone

and forgetting about the rest.

I don't even worry about going into moldy basements anymore,

just so long as I don't perceive the " hit " which I associate with

Trichothecenes.

Did you see my story about the doctor telling me to get rid of my cat

in Mold Warriors?

I still have the cat.

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After I was exposed to the Stachybotrys, my 42 lb. healthy cat: " Spanky " , got

sick with an upper respiratory ailment and died quickly. He was only an indoor

cat and would love on me after I came home from work. I know he died from the

same thing I have and it really is sad. I did not know " mold " could make a

person or animal that sick.

I am glad you kept your cat. Why did your doctor want you to get rid of your cat

in the first place?

Marcie

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I have a dog and she is being treated too. Anti-microbial shampoo (twice a

week) and by prescription pill.

As long as I stay away from original site of contamination (my old

apartment) and anything to do with it, I am feeling better.

I took a walk in the forest today (lots of mold there) - no problem. The

rental car air conditioner doesn't give me problems like my car did.

Etc..

Pets can be treated. I also noticed if I take garlic tabs, I level off.

Still waiting to see the specialist though. So it will be a few more weeks

before I get results and put on full treatment.

Angelika

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USDA standards say that 20 parts per

million is “gluten-free”.

I react to that. Some folks don’t.

The Canadian government standards are 0

ppm.

So if the Amy’s stuff I’ve had

registers at 20 ppm, the USDA still considers it GF. If you read the back

of the Mac N Cheese though, it says something along the lines of “allergen

warning: this product is manufactured in a facility that processes wheat…”

Now, if we could only get OUR government

to adopt a “zero tolerance: policy around gluten…

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of cory katt

Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006

8:05 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: cross

contamination

Thanks, I think it was Amy's, too bad the names are so

close! I think its

Annie's stuff I've bought before and never had a problem with, now I will

look more closely at Amy's! Does anyone know if there are actual laws

around labeling a product GF? If there are, we should report products that

call themselves GF and are not! I've only been doing this for a few months,

I assume the longer I do this, the better I'll get at keeping totally GF.

Sometimes I just dont think, like I bought strawberry Mochi's from Trader

Joe's (sooooooooooo good) and read the label carefully. The next time I

went I bought both strawberry AND chocolate and didn't bother reading the

label again! I bit into the chocolate and tasted what seemed to be cookie

dough like, I spit it out and read the label, yup, wheat in the chocolate!

Live and learn :-)

Cory

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funney you should say i will smell it. cause i am the only one who smells

anything now. I threw out a perfectly working air conditioner cause when i

inspected it it was filled with mold. its 8 years old and never had a drop of

mold on it. the air conditioner in my living room is on its 3 year and its

smells like cat urine. last summer we were going crazy trying to locate the

smell. now i know what the smell is from. so that has to go. i can will not

leave the stuff at the curb cuse others dont need the mold. otherwise i would

offer it up freecycle. my goodness what a darn nighmare. i cant afford to

replace all this stuff!! was your landlord held liable for any of your losses?

nne

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> My books? no not my books? my photo albums, and some very special

to me books are in a book shelf right under the ceiling where the mold

" may " be. this is not good. what do we do in this case? my couches

- no problem - they are ugly and can go anyway.

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> nne

Sorry Roseanne but yes, your books-paper and mold are like magnets. I

threw out every single thing I had in my basement-things that I'd

saved for 30 years. It was so traumatic that by the end of the day I

left my Mom downstairs to supervise the guys doing the work and went

upstairs to bed. I just couldn't look at my stuff going out the door

anymore. And I LOVE my books! In fact the stuff that was really really

precious to me got wrapped up in boxes filled with baking soda (to

absorb the smell) and got sent to my Mom's attic. But mostly

everything got sent to the curb (where,this being Queens, promptly got

picked up by passing cars and people! I was glad to give my books and

stuff new homes!)

You have to be ruthless because if you bring any mold with you to the

next apartment you WILL smell it, it will affect you and you will not

know what is going on. I stupidly put ONE small fan in my upstairs

closet and for months the mold drove me crazy till I realized it was

coming from that plastic fan. I threw it out and immediately felt better.

Good luck moving! Surella

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Thanks Cheryl,

Did you or the mold testers you hired ever test your belongings as well as

areas in your home. What measures have they offered for remediation of your

belongings? Are there any other possibilites for you to get more thorough

assistance with testing and remediation?

I hope so.

Regards,

Sam

Cheryl <sunbum256@...> wrote:

Sam, I did both. I had mold testing companies, so I thought, but there

wasn't any follow up & they tested what I pointed out to them. I,

also, bought petri dishes from Mold Help.com(I think!) & did my own

testing on suspicious areas & from my vents

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