Black mold allowed to grow in a home or office environment can cause severe health problems for the inhabitants. Let’s take a look at five health problems caused by mold.
- Single exposure or prolonged exposure to toxic black mold can produce allergic reactions including migraine headaches, sneezing, runny nose (often bleeding), red itchy eyes, and severe skin rashes.
- Exposure to toxic black mold can cause asthma attacks in asthmatics allergic to mold.
- Toxic black mold can irritate eyes, skin, nose, throat, and lungs, even if you are not asthmatic.
- Breathing in toxic black mold may cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a disease resembling bacterial pneumonia. In people with weak or suppressed immune systems infections may occur.
- Exposure to toxic black mold can cause difficulty in breathing.