We hate to break it to you, but if you don\u2019t think there\u2019s mold in your home, then you\u2019re probably wrong.<\/p>\n
Mold is everywhere<\/a>: It thrives indoors and outdoors all year round, wherever conditions are wet and warm. You may have heard scary stories about\u00a0\u201cdangerous black mold\u201d that requires a total home overhaul to eliminate. But we\u2019re here to tell you that while a serious issue, most types of household mold are easier to handle than you think. Consider the facts:<\/p>\n
There are at least\u00a0tens of thousands of varieties<\/a> of mold, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And chances are its spores are already floating around your house.<\/p>\n
But it takes a certain type of mold ? and a certain type of person ? for those spores to actually make you sick, says Robin Wilson<\/a>, an interior designer who specializes in hypoallergenic homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
White, red and orange molds<\/a>, for example, usually do not irritate humans. But many types of greenish-black molds, specifically Aspergillus<\/a>\u00a0and Cladosporium<\/a>, can cause stuffy noses, itchy eyes, wheezing or skin irritation in kids or adults with allergies, asthma, weakened immune systems and existing respiratory problems<\/a>. What we call \u201cblack mold<\/a>\u201d is just one type of the many household molds<\/a> out there, and all of them should be treated with equal concern<\/a>.\u00a0No matter what type of mold you have, it\u2019s never a good idea to leave it lying around.<\/p>\n
We hate to break it to you, but if you don\u2019t think there\u2019s mold in your home, then you\u2019re probably wrong. Mold is everywhere: It thrives indoors and outdoors all year round, wherever conditions are wet and warm. You may have heard scary stories about\u00a0\u201cdangerous black mold\u201d that requires a total home overhaul to eliminate. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}