Saturday, February 11, 2012

Mold on My Mind: With asthma, how do you protect yourself and your family?

I received a fancy air filter for a present last year. It has a mold attachment, a kind of light blub, which uses ozone to fry the mold spores out of the air.  But ozone is bad for asthma -- very bad apparently. Even the guy who sold the product to us said the ozone lamp causes an "alle...
Anonymous
cp de miguel
2/ 8/08 12:55pm
I am a teacher in a High School. for the last 10 years my room has had black mold...which have made me very sick (many different symptoms). The school did nothing to fix the problem. Now Dr's  found abnormalities in my lungs.... What can I do now?!
2/10/08 4:28pm

this is very serious indeed.

 

i'm NOT a legal expert and that is what i think you need.

 

however, i do have some initial questions:

 

have you kept records and pictures of the mold?

 

have any other teachers in your school become ill? what have they done? 

 

have you contacted your teachers union?

 

have you contacted the department of education in your state?

 

what kind of lung abnormalities has your doctor discovered? are they treatable? are they consistent with black mold illness? what does your doctor recommend?

 

 

 

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