animalcule
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Recently discovered mold in a bedroom closet, posted about it before. I'm coming to the realization that I'm probably going to have to throw everything out, even what I've cleaned. The question is ... why??
I had some clothing in the closet that I wanted to salvage. So I washed it with ammonia and a super surfactant detergent. Then I washed it with vinegar. Smelled it afterwards and had a reaction (tongue went numb, sore throat). So I washed it again, this time with more vinegar and detergent, then with essential oils that are supposedly antifungal, then with a ton of borax. Still I had a reaction to the clothing, this time pretty bad. Why?? Note: none of the clothing had visible mold on it, at any point. It all looked clean, but it had been in the closet where the mold was found.
I cleaned the mold up before I could sample it, but room samples turned up some other toxic molds in the air (but not the big bad guys like aspergillus or stachybotrys). Fusarium, penicillium, acremonium, alternaria. Could have been any of them that cause my illness. But after washing my clothing 5 times ... the spores should be gone. And the mycotoxins should have been neutralized. What gives? What exactly could it be that remains that is causing a reaction?
I had some clothing in the closet that I wanted to salvage. So I washed it with ammonia and a super surfactant detergent. Then I washed it with vinegar. Smelled it afterwards and had a reaction (tongue went numb, sore throat). So I washed it again, this time with more vinegar and detergent, then with essential oils that are supposedly antifungal, then with a ton of borax. Still I had a reaction to the clothing, this time pretty bad. Why?? Note: none of the clothing had visible mold on it, at any point. It all looked clean, but it had been in the closet where the mold was found.
I cleaned the mold up before I could sample it, but room samples turned up some other toxic molds in the air (but not the big bad guys like aspergillus or stachybotrys). Fusarium, penicillium, acremonium, alternaria. Could have been any of them that cause my illness. But after washing my clothing 5 times ... the spores should be gone. And the mycotoxins should have been neutralized. What gives? What exactly could it be that remains that is causing a reaction?