Columbus Ohio black mold

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Toxic Black Mold, (stachybotrys chartarum) is a microfungus that exists in nature (in dirt) but is mostly found in buildings with water damage, growing on building materials that are made mostly of organic materials. Black mold is a variety of fungus that needs a great deal of moisture to grow, and it grows slowly in comparison with other molds. It also does not spread as easily: toxic black mold only releases its spores into the air when physically disturbed.

What black mold in Columbus lacks in growth speed it certainly makes up in danger to human health! Health issues due to black mold were first reported about 100 years ago. Black mold has been identified as a component of “sick building syndrome”, which refers to the situation where a building has enough issues like mold that it makes the people who work or live in that building over a period of time very, very ill. This is often thanks to toxins that accumulate in the air within the air of the building.

Black mold can poison infants: after a period of exposure to particularly high levels of black mold spores, several infants in Cleveland in 1994 died of bleeding in the lungs (pulmonary hemosiderosis). Black mold can also poison cats! Felines living in water damaged homes and being exposed to black mold spores are also highly subject to dying of pulmonary hemorrhage.

Pneumonia is triggered after black mold exposure in a small number of people who have other medical issues. Other symptoms of toxic black mold exposure are allergies/common allergic reactions: sinus issues, headaches, itchiness at the eyes, etc).