Dangerous mold may just be trying to take over your home—but you can fight back.
in her liver, which made her think something was amiss. What that something was took Lauren, a 34-year-old entrepreneur in Bandera, TX, two years to discover. One doctor thought she might have Lyme disease; another worried that it could be cancer. Finally, allergy tests revealed that Lauren’s symptoms were due to excessive exposure to mold.
Lauren had no idea where she’d been exposed to high levels of mold, so she combed her house for possible sources. She didn’t find anything—no leaks under the sink, no cracks letting rain enter the walls, nothing dripping from the roof or the air conditioner. Then she remembered how her health worsened when she got into her touring van, a vehicle she used almost every month to drive her family nine hours to visit relatives; she and her kids would sleep in the van’s two king-size beds.
Yet how much mold we’re each exposed to and exactly what harm it does is not well understood. “There’s still quite a lot we don’t know,” admits Dori Germolec, Ph.D., a toxicologist at the. Part of the reason is that researchers can’t ethically expose some people to mold and compare them with others they don’t expose, following the method of the best clinical trials.
What is clear is that too much mold is bad for our health. “When it’s in excess, such as in a water-damaged building, it can become a problem, particularly for individuals with respiratory conditions such as asthma and allergies,” Germolec says. More of us will experience this as climate change turbocharges storms and flooding as well as raises temperatures and humidity—all these things contribute to mold growth.
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