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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

perhaps / dunno--there are airborne spores (not quite gasses) an' they "grow" in a petrie dish--the remediator guy told me that much... either way, human bodies (lungs!) are harmed by breathin' in whatever is produced (spores, gasses too?). The odor is strong... but normally drywall is just gypsum, the paint latex... no lead 'er other chemicals present afaik... all I kin say is black mold is bad nooze an' vinegar 'n bleach ain't enuf ta remediate it... (some folks are far more sensitive to it...that's likely as well)

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Ida's avatar

Yes, mold spores are always in the air. The drywall paper is made by adding chemicals. Putty, + paint, or wallpaper - with glue - is applied to it, which, when wetted and + moldy, release various toxic gases into the air. Which then weakens people and causes various diseases. I am not a chemist, and I do not know the exact formulas of all the substances that react with each other in this case, but I think that the essence of the article is that the health hazard of black mold has not been proven. Because the described method of proof cannot prove anything other than that vile people like to torture animals, people, and anything else, which they then want to sell as "science" to those who do not know their methods... Because as Agent wrote, putting mice in a moldy place and seeing if they get sick would have been enough proof that it's harmful or makes you sick... But what they're doing is completely worthless as evidence, but perfectly suitable for offering sacrifices to evil...

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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

sure, an' I'm not qvestionin' that. But I will say that non-moldly drywall that just gits wet (been there too) has no such effect. I'm not sayin' any of the testin' that's been shared shows the keerecht mechanism by which "black mold" harms--but ta say it's all a hoax really negates that true experience of many. An' it's not only drywall that causes it. We know folks in a velly old pre-war apartment that had regular plaster (no drywall!)-- an' when an upstairs tub caused their leak that formed black mold that was embedded in the plaster for months--two of the fam and their dog suffered horribly an' the others did not. My friend who suffered now needs an epipen as even after the remediation she didn't heal--her immune system became more sensitized. Like I said, I don't understand the mechanics--nor do I know if there's non-bull-oney studies not shared here. I know medi-sin is much made up... but all I will say is all molds are not the same... our pink mold under the sink? Just gross (an' we remediated it with enzymes!) but the black stuff ain't a joke... just our eggsperience... notta good one!

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Ida's avatar

You're right. Surely the release of toxins from rot weakens a person's immune system, and the number of mold spores is no minor factor.

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