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Mold Grows on Toast and Other Food

Jordan, 11, from Oklahoma, shares her experience and some advice in dealing with mold:

One time, I made some cinnamon toast. I took a few bites and then left to go outside. I forgot about my toast.

While I was out, I left my toast on my school desk, but when I came back in at the end of the day I had still forgotten it and went to bed. I found that my toast had grown mold about a week later - when I found it under all my school garbage.

Then, to top my whole story off, the trash can got mold on it so I had to clean it with Tilex. My mom was verrrryyyyy mad and told me to clean up my messes when I make them. I’ll keep working on that.

A Bit of Advice on Mold

• Don’t leave food out for long periods of time.
• Mold spreads VERY quickly.

Jordan - Guest Writer from the MoldBlogger Team

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• Mold on Food
• Risks of Food Mold

What Happens When Mold Gets on Clothing?

Jacole, 11, from Oklahoma, shares her experience and some advice in dealing with mold:

Hi! My name is Jacole. My experience with mold happened with my favorite pair of pants. They were verrry comfortable.

They were in the laundry basket waiting to be washed, but they were in there sooo long (because I forgot about them in my room) that they got mold on the legs!

My mom washed them with bleach, but they were stained anyways.

A little advice :

If mold gets on clothes - IT STAINS!

Jacole - Guest Writer from the MoldBlogger Team

Further Recommended Reading :

• How to Remove Mold and the Smell from Clothing

The Effects of Mold

Here’s an exerpt from an interesting story of a man named Wayne. Its his personal story and battle with mold.

My trouble started in childhood with my eyes.

They were always itching, especially when I tried to sleep. After a while I developed a nevus on my eye — a hardened blister formation on the white part.

It did not interfere with my vision, but it wasn’t pretty. Eventually I had the nevus surgically removed. I vividly remember the whole procedure. My eyes were wide open.

That night, I went out on my first date with Cynthia, the woman who would later become my wife. During the date, I remember making Cynthia sit on the side of the theater (instead of in the middle seats), so I could turn my eyes and still see the movie, thus relieving the discomfort of having the suture in the corner of my eye.

To read the rest of Wayne’s story visit Dr. Greene.Com

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• House Mold Allergies
• Symptoms of Mold Exposure

Joslyn from the MoldBlogger Team

Mold Affects the Life of a Child

This story is heart wrenching.

A young girl wishes to create a Mold Exposure Association to save other’s from suffering what she had to; leaving, her friends, her beautiful home, and her life behind her.

Mold is bigger than we think.

It’s out there, and it’s destroying lives.

…I would sit on the side of my bed very weak not able to hold my head up and tell my sick mother I am going to make it this time.

All my mother would say is please please don’t give up we can make it. Fight for me and please pray. Well that night I made it through thank God…

Read the rest of this breath taking story at Mold-Help.org : Toxic Mold in a Child’s Words

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• A Personal Mold Story
• Manage Mold for Good Health

Joslyn from the MoldBlogger Team

Is Mold “Trivial?”

A woman, her husband, and their 2 children are living in a home that they cannot move out of now. Why is this? Simply, because of mold. This is their story.

For quite a while, their daughter would stop breathing each night, for a period of time. Doctors were more focused on giving her endoscopies, than listening to the truth and helping her.

They gave her drugs; steroids and singular, which she is still on mainly for her asthma condition.

Doctors would not listen to Nancy and her husband as they tried to tell them, the reason was mold spores circulating through the house.

A month or so later, they found the cause of the mold. A sliced bathtub drain pipe that was cut into during the electrical work during the building of their home 10 years before.

Layers of sheetrock and metal had a two inch layer of a chocolate peanut butter fungi. The family had contractors come in and replace the pipe and the area around it to make sure it was taken care of completely.

They were advised that fighting the builder in court would never work, and as suspected, even after 2 home inspections, pictures, and a mold remediation test, the case was dropped because it was “trivial”.

The results from this was their home owners insurance was dropped and it took a long time to get VERY limited insurance with a small broker in North Carolina.

And so, they are forced to stay in their North Carolina home even after so many replacements and renewals have been done on their home, because they cannot get home owners insurance on any other home. Nancy has learned that

Unless the house was all concrete, I will never trust what is behind any wall, in any home, no matter how old or new.

Read the rest of their amazing fight with mold with Nancy’s Story

Further Recommended Reading :

• A Personal Mold Story
• Research Shows Mold is Common in Homes

Joslyn from the MoldBlogger Team

Source : Mold-Help.org