There seems to be more things in this world
that can harm us than can help us, and with the latest scientific research
always discovering new things in our world that we were previously completely
unaware of, you would be forgiven thinking that if you took one step out of
your front door you’d be walking into danger! The trouble is that many people
start to fearmonger, and make people panic about things like lightning strikes
and shark attacks, when in reality the likelihood of someone actually suffering
through an incident like that is ridiculously small – and that detracts
attention away from the things that really genuinely could harm you, and could
actually be harming you and your family right now.
If you were asked to name the most
dangerous thing in your home right now, there are quite a few different answers
that you could give. You might talk about the knives, blender, or even
something like the oven that can get very hot. Others may think about the machinery
and tools that they have in their garage, along with the potentially toxic
chemicals that they still have lying around after a DIY project. Others may
worry about bathrooms, and all of those medicines lying around in a bathroom
cabinet, or the razor that you left in the way for little hands to grab. But
actually, the most dangerous thing in your home that probably exists right now
is not something that you can probably see – unless you start taking walls
down, or going up into your loft, or following that weird smell of mold that
you noticed the other day: and that is because homes up and down the country
are starting to become infected with toxic mold.
There are many different kinds of mold
around the world, and many of them can be found only mere steps from your front
door. That is because mold does not really need a lot of encouragement or help
to grow; all it really needs is a little bit of warmth, and a little bit of
moisture. Everything else is just an extra, which means mold can survive in
some of the harshest and most barren conditions. On the other hand, that means
that our homes look like the perfect nesting place for mold. Some molds are
really obvious – such as black mold, or the mold that periodically appears in
your bathroom. It is relatively simple to deal with it, and it’s gone. The
trouble comes when mold is ingrained so deeply into your home that you are no
longer aware of it, and that means that it could be growing exponentially
without any checks. That is seriously bad news for us, because unlike many
natural organisms that we share our homes with, there are many different
species of mold that actually release toxins as natural by product.
Toxic does not sound that bad, but in fact
these toxins can cause some rather serious health consequences – especially for
young children and babies, the elderly, and those who are already unwell. The
variety of symptoms that people experience often means that many people do not
realise what the cause is because they cannot work out what the root cause is.
Some people will experience shortness of breath, and dizzy spells. Others will
have running eyes and noses, or a sore throat. Some will actually find it
impossible to stop sneezing – and others will have to struggle against all of
these different symptoms combined.
These toxins can build up over time, which
means that the longer you wait to have toxic mold removed from your home, the more intense and
the more dangerous these health effects are going to become. Some scientists
and health officials believe that those who live within an area full of toxic
mold for not months but years can actually be diagnosed with very serious life
threatening illnesses, all due to living so close to toxic mold. These diseases
include kidney disorders, swelling in the brain and liver, liver cancer, and
abnormally low platelet counts. These are not simple things to diagnose and to
treat, and that is why living with toxic mold is so critically dangerous.
Some experts believe that as high as 40% of
American schools, and one in four homes already have infestations of toxic mold.
Toxic mold can sometimes be a very difficult thing to rid from your home,
because it can burrow very deeply into the very fabric of your building. That
means that many professionals who spend their lives removing mold from
properties will not be able to ensure that every single last bit of toxic mold
has been removed – and there only needs to be one tiny bit of toxic mold left
for it to start growing again.
If you believe that there is a chance that
you or those that you love are living around toxic mold, the time to act is
now, not months down the line. Many people who discover that toxic mold has set
up shop in their property realize that what they had always assumed was asthma
was actually just the symptoms of breathing in toxic mold for so long. Your
quality of life could be drastically improved if you bring in a professional to
remove the toxic mold from your home, and you will kick yourself for not acting
on your hunch years ago.
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