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Do you think i have mold in the house?
I am going off to my beach house for a week this week and when we go away, we turn off the air so the whole house gets moist and stuff. Two summers ago my grandma got a huge cough from my beach house and so did i. i was diagnosed at home later with allergetic ashthma that was formed and i wasn'tborn with it. my grandma then caught pneumonia. she fought it for months. we thought it was mold in the vents. so we got it examined and turns out that we DID have mold in our vents but i was allergic to the type in the vents. They cleaned it and then it was fine. but that was summer '08. Now it's summer '10 and that was a while back. OUr beach house has meadows behind it and a bay. I am scared that deadly mold has formed over the years. how long does it take to kill you and what are the symptoms? do you think that it formed? my brother got a sinus infection from it a couple weeks ago. How long doe it take to die from mold? Do you think i have it in my house?
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You are going to make yourself sick with worry. Forget about mold - you are hurting yourself with this obsession.
I'm very sorry about your grandmother. Pneumonia is a very, very dangerous illness for the elderly, and the very young. However, as a healthy young women, mold wont kill you after a week of exposure. If there is mold, you and others might develop a cough or asthma, at worse, a fever. But all that could be avoided by simply having someone come in and look at the vents and check that nothing else has grown.
There are some molds in everyone's home. Most of them are not dangerous at all. Some people are extra sensitive to them, but even then, death is very, very unlikely.
At this point, you are more likely to make yourself sick with stress than mold. Try to enjoy your vacation. Pack a tent and sleep under the stars a few times if you are concerned.
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