I have heard of the same thing happening to two people (mother, son) who lived for a year in a house with a low level propane leak, breathing propane day and night in amounts too small to smell. They are now permanently it seems, plagued with ultra-sensitivity to almost any odor or aroma, even ones not detectable by anyone else, as well as other less pleasant symptoms.
Dick ________________________________ From: "martsmai...@aol.com" <martsmai...@aol.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 7:22:03 AM Subject: Re: CS>Off Topic Mold answers from Mike Part Two ultra sensitive,This is what can happen to your body after massive exposure,you become ultra sensitive. In a message dated 1/25/2010 6:01:38 A.M. Central Standard Time, dickgoodwin2...@yahoo.com writes: Either > this guy is paranoid, or ultra sensitive, or onto something that might be > relevant to everyone including us... > > > ________________________________ From: "martsmai...@aol.com" > <martsmai...@aol.com> >To: silver-list@eskimo.com >Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 11:02:44 > PM >Subject: CS>Off Topic > Mold answers from Mike Part Two > >Another thing I have found that is very important is > to clean all >the lint and dirt from your living > area. Look under the bed and >clean the dust > bunnies each day. Get a moist sponge and run it along >the window > ledges. Clean your desk each day and any counter or > flat >surface where lint can gather. Vacuum the entire area > daily. If you >live in a house with a carpet, move. You need to > find a new place >with a hardwood or low voc > tile floor that has a sealed basement >that doesn't grow > mold. This is not easy to find. > >Mold grows on the > lint and fills the environment with spores. If >your > body uses all its resources to fight the mold when you are > at >home, there is very little left to handle the spores in the > car. > >It is important to realize the biggest > source of spores is the >bedding you use each > night. Mold grows in the cotton and polyester >fibres, and you > breath the spores in for eight hours. Then your body >has to spend the > rest of the day trying to get rid of them. > >I have tried > many different ways of killing the spores in > bedding. >They do not work. The spores are > invulnerable to any household >chemical or > processing temperature you can use without > destroying >the fabric. > >About the only thing I have found > that partially works is to wash >the bedding each > day using a cup of fresh bleach in the tub at the >start > of the wash cycle. Use the minimum amount of soap that > will >still make a few bubbles. I use about a teaspoon in my > Kenmore HE3 >front loader. The reason for using an extremely small > amount of soap >is >to minimize the lint > generated in the fabric. This > goes >everywhere and soon starts growing mold. > >I am working > on a machine using ozone to kill the spores. This > is >normally a serious problem since ozone generators do not > work when >the humidity is high or in high room > temperatures. But I think I >have found a > solution to the problem and will let you know if it >works as > well as I think it will. > >Finally, you can mount a high efficiency > furnace filter on the back >of >a 20 inch box fan and turn > the fan on low speed. > >The filter will slow > the airflow down to the point where > the >propeller ceases to function as an airfoil. But it > will act as a >paddle and spray air out the sides of > the case. This is sufficient >for a bit of new air to enter the > filter. > >The problem is the filter doesn't do a good job on > the tiny spores >that cause the greatest problems. I > bought two of the professional >version of the > Dylos Air Quality Monitors to monitor the > spore >count. > >I have tried a number of different > vendor's filters, and most of >them simply do not > work. The best I found was the 3M Filtret 9500. >This > costs around $30.00, but the Dylos shows only gets about > half >the spores. So you need to use it in a closed > room where it can >recirculate the air and get a few more > spores on each pass. > >The next problem is the filter doesn't last > very long. It starts to >pick up lint from the air > which collects on the filter. Soon it >starts > growing mold. Now, instead of filtering the spores from > the >air, it becomes a spore generator. After a few > days, you have to >discard the filter and buy a new one. > This gets very expensive. > >I have tried a > number of ways of filtering > the air using >electrostatic fields from dual polarity high voltage > generators. The >high voltage causes a few > major problems. Dirt collects in the >housing > and causes the system to arc over. The negative HV generator > >is >not designed to handle arcovers, and it is quickly > destroyed. > >The next problem is humidity. When it > is hot and humid outside, >moisture collects > on the housing and causes severe problems > with >arcover. > >I may have found a solution to this problem and > I am in the process >of building a system to try it. I will let > you know if it works. > >Regards, > >Mike > >P.S. This > information may be of interest to others in the list. If > >it >is OK with you, would you mind posting this reply to the > group? > >
