Instances of Mold
Mold is a fungus that can be found in damp places like bathrooms and basements. Mold travels in the air as tiny spores. The spores find their way to a wet area. This is where the spores breed and grow.
Effects of Mold on Human Health
Great exposure to mold can cause a lot of health problems. Mold can effect the human health by causing allergies, infections, and toxicity. Those most at risk are infants and children, the elderly, pregnant women, allergy and asthma patients, and immune compromised patients. Symptoms that you may be exposed to mold are as followed, wheezing, nasal and sinus congestion, burning eyes, and a dry cough. Other more severe symptoms may include headaches, memory loss, and flue like symptoms. These may be a sign of exposure to toxic mold.
Mold and Human Health The health effects of different kinds of molds.
Department of Health and Senior Services A guide to making your indoor air quality mold free.
American College of Occupational and Enviromental Medicine The adverse human effects of mold.
Mold: Indoor Fungal Infestations and Mycotoxity How health care providers deal with mold.
Exposure to Enviromental Hazrds The harmful effects of indoor mold.
American Academy of Pediatrics The spectrum of heath effects of mold.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Frequently asked questions about mold.
Evidence Based Statements The adverse human effects of mold in the indoor environment.
Science Beat The effects of human health when mold runs amok.
Office News and Public Information Dampness is linked to respiratory problems with indoor mold.
Mold as a Lasting Impact of Natural Disasters
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International Facility Management Association Eliminate mold successfully with the right approach.
Black Mold How to remove black mold from drywall.
Office of Environmental Health How to tackle mold that is growing in your house.
Colorado Department of Public Health Everything you need for mold cleanup.
University of Missouri Extension Home methods on how to remove and prevent mold and mildew.
Mold and Fungi Clean-Up The general procedures in cleaning up mold and fungi.
National Institute of Building Sciences The instructions on how to eliminate mold in schools.
Environmental Management How to successfully remove mold in the home.
The best way to prevent mold is to keep a clean, dry, and well ventilated home. Take the actions now to prevent an outbreak later. You could avoid getting mold in the first place and keep your family healthy.
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Mold is a member of the fungi family. Since mold is part of the fungi family, it cannot use the sun to obtain energy. This means that mold has to use other plants or animals to grow. Even though they cannot see them, there are millions of mold spores in the air. These spores settle down and start to multiply which can be done rapidly or slowly as long as it has a food source. Mold usually grows best in warm environments, but it can still grow in cold environments also. Mold can cause illness such as vomiting or feeling nauseated when it is eaten or when it smells bad.
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The first step of the process of hay production is the standing crop. The standing crops contain bacteria and yeasts. This is where potential mold growth begins (Smith). Once the crop has been cut the moisture of the plant is then decreased very quickly. This now allows a new group of microbes to begin to reproduce and spread. Hay that is apparently dusty but lacks visual evidence of mold, is caused by fungi growing in the cut hay that is drying out in the field. After the hay has been baled, yet another new group of microbes (mainly consisting of fungi and yeasts) start to reproduce (Smith). These new fungi are better suited to fill this new, drier, and warmer niche. The most common molds found in hay include Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cladosporum, Fusarium, Mucor, Penicillium, and Rhizopus each of these types cause spores that can cause problems for livestock and especially horses (Lemus). Out of these common types of fungi, there are three types that start to grow mainly during storage; These are Aspergillis, Fusarium and Penicillium. Several of the fungi that grow during the hay bale storage process are known to produce mycotoxins. These are the organisms that feed off sugars and organic acids emitted from the plant during the drying process and they are also the types of fungi that cause hay to become moldy (Smit...
In the case of the cellular slime molds, each spore released becomes a single ameba, which feeds individually until starving cells release a chemical signal that causes them to aggregate into a new pseudoplasmodium, and the process is repeated.
• Wash your hands thoroughly before and after preparing food and after using the bathroom. Make sure people who live with you wash their hands often too. If soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer.
A biofilm is a layer consisting of various combinations of many different organisms, autotrophic and heterotrophic. They are dense, organized communities of cells, encased in a self-produced slime. The bacteria grow together in water like atmospheres, attaching to a solid surface, forming a small ecosystem. Biofilms are known as a micro-environment, a micro-habitat, or a slime matrix. They help decompose dead organisms and recycle carbon and nutrients.
Mold is a group of fungus that are a decomposer in nature. They are basically a single celled organism with thousands of nuclei. They nearly have the same life cycle as fungi. They are made up of filaments, called hyphae.They can be found in shady, damp areas outdoors, like rotting logs, or any place with decomposing vegetation. There are also parasitic molds, that live off a host. . Mold can reproduce with itself, asexually, and with other molds, which would be sexual reproduction. They use single celled bodies, called spores, to do this. Mold can have aerial spores, or even spores in the water, from water molds. Bacteria can communicate with each other. Spores are extremely versatile, and can even go dormant, for up to 75 years, and then still germinate. The have receptors that can detect positive or negative chemicals. They can sense the environment, and make decisions. I think mold will be able to have the same social interactions, and be able to know where, and where not to go. A well studied mold is the slime mold, or Physarum polycephalum. This mold, like many other inhabits shady, moist areas, such as under decaying logs. It is usually yellow in color, and eats bacteria, fungal spores, and other microbes. To consume its food, it surrounds it, and uses enzymes to break it down. Since it consumes food like this, it is not harmful. As food starts to run out, it goes into its reproductive state. Physarum polycephalum can anticipate changes. Even though they do not have a brain, or central nervous system. It can anticipate change, when dealing with its environment. I always wonder if organisms like this can think at all. Also, if we were once like this mold, as we did start as small organisms. As we e...
Reduce your home’s heat load. Close windows, shutters, and drapes facing the sun during the day. Turn off lighting and electrical devices as possible.
Certain solid or liquid produced a gases known as Volatile organic compound (VOC).Volatile organic compound (VOC) is the most common contamination of indoor air. Many chemical give short- term or long term of health effect. (Levin.H,2014) claim concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors. Sources of VOC are carpeting, copy machine, cleaning agent, manufactured wood product. In addition, environmental tobacco smoke , unvented space heater and fireplace will increase the chemical contamination.
As humans, we use our sense of smell to judge a room’s cleanliness. Keeping a room clean and fresh is a problem which most people have. A room that has a positive pressure, laminar flow ventilation system, properly sealed facilities, ducting and most especially a fresh aura is very mind relaxing. Ideally, any room should be a place of peace and comfort, but if odors build up in quarters, it is hard to feel at ease. These are the primary reasons why manufacturers come up with a product which is the air freshener that could address this kind of environmental problem.
Floods are the most common natural disaster as well as the leading cause of natural disaster fatalities worldwide. (Doocy S., Daniels A., Murray S., & Kirsch TD., 2013). Schanze et al., 2006, also indicate that flooding is one of the most threatening natural hazards in the world. Musa and Usman, (2013) assert that, flooding has the largest damage potential and affects a larger number of people when compared to other natural disasters. According to Munich, 2015, due to flood disaster, there have been a proportionate increase in economic losses, loss of human lives and livelihoods, environmental damages and destruction to social infrastructure during the last forty years. The annual average of floods, 127 in the previous
3. Filter the air around you: Air which you are breathing should be filtered to get good indoor air and it could be done by the air filters which can help in creating healthier indoor air by capturing airborne allergies and smog from the air passing through the filter. It’s just like vacuuming the air and you don’t have to make much effort for
The condensation problem-A humidifier can lead to condensation if it is not in impeccable working order or if the settings chosen are wrong. Such a humidifier will facilitate growth of bacteria, mold and dust mites. The microorganisms will not only be a threat to your hygiene but also make symptoms of asthma much worse. Millions of people including kids and the elderly are allergic to these microorganisms.