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Very interesting comment.  Mold need something to feed it to grow.  A person with uncontroled diabetes has glucose in their urine, which is a wonderful medium for mold.  Being undiagnosed as  boarderline is ( IMHO) criminal.  This teenager is at dire risk - if he, she, were to start control now he would have a much better chance of living a decent life and avoiding complications sooner.

If the teen has fruity breath it usually means the diabetes is not under control.  The mold could be coming from urine with sugar in it which bacteria loves to grow on.  I am a nursing student and know that the numbers for what is now acceptable are being lowered for not only diabetes but also for high blood pressure and high cholesteral.  I would ckeck with the latest information on the CDC website for more information.

all my life I had normal fasting glucose levels, until I lived at an apartment with a mold problem.  the light fixtures would mold over, as well as the bathroom and toilet.  I'm wondering if the mold caused the diabetes, so I find this post interesting.  this was in sausalito, ca.

I just had my best friend move in and before that event our toilet had remained relatively clean (me and my brother didn't clean all that regularly either) but now, even with weekly cleaning it comes to be all black and moldy. i came online and googled it to see if there was a link between diabetes and dirty toilets, he is type 1 and his sugars are often high.

 

Good to know I'm not the only one.

Do you know how to give a labrotory rat Diabetes? They inject it with Mold.

Wow - very happy to have come across this comment trail. Same deal at our house. I suspect my husband has diabetes, but being typical male, he does not go to the doctor. Only toilet in our otherwise fairly clean home where mold grows thick, quickly and black is "his" in the master bath. There is NO mold in the other toilets. He has other symptoms too of Type II, and it runs in his family. I figure it may be coming on for him, at age 49.

I'm a type I diabetic and I actually came online to search if anyone else had had problems with this wierd black mold growing in the toliet. I recently moved out of my parents house and it seems like I have to clean my toliet every week. Now my sugar levels have been high now for awhile and I never thought to put the two together about the high sugars and mold growing.

Ahh I have found the answer out.  Nobody in our family has diabetes and I had never seen this black mold in the toilet before.  The only toilet it is in now is the one my daughter's boyfriend uses, and he has Type 1 diabetes that is uncontrolled, he can't bother to get his meds or eat right.  I guessed it was the sugar attracting the mold.  I hope this mold isn't dangerous in any way.

Hi

I'm experiencing this phenomenon also.  My aunt was diagnosed with Type I very late in life.  Her mother had Type 2 supposedly.  I have a sweet tooth but mostly drink too much wine.  Have fungal problems and a mold-challenged house.  My fasting glucose has hovered around 90 for years.

 

This is very worrisome.

 

I also had to look up the info about the rats and found this link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T1J-4B0P1WJ-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=3798c55eb72edc2a6ba7d2b7f109b85e

 

good luck to everyone.

I noticed this 7 years ago when my son was first diagnosed with type I.  I couldn't find anything back then.  I was just reading blogs again looking for what causes the black mold.  No one seems to know.  I read HVAC, low flow toilets, on and on.  We have moved about every 3 years, remodeled, replaced toilets - all that and within days we always get the ring of black mold.  My son is now 15 and doesn't ever want to test for keytones and even hates testing his blood sugar at times.  I'm convinced their is a link.  Probably a side effect of diabetes and not the cause.

I was diagnosed a year ago with Type II and I bought a house a year before that.  I had a much older brother with diabetes.  My problem is that the only place I have black mold is in MY BEDROOM.  It started last year now I am battling this situation.  First, I used pure bleach and those spots have stopped it.  I was reading an article at Home Depot and it says that bleach does not kill it.  One product I found there has hydrogen peroxide as the active ingredient. 

 

Any other suggestions.

My wife has been bugging me for months to find the cause our ongoing "spotty black mold" problem, and she assumed it was something to do with perhaps an infection I could have - essentially assuming the worst!  Well, I'm actually Type-II and my Doctors are telling me it's time to switch to an insulin pump instead of oral meds... funny, the mold definitely has become more and more a problem as my blood sugar levels have risen over the years.  Guess I can add one more reason for switching to insulin and lowering my blood sugar:  less need to clean the toilet due to the unsightly, nasty black stuff!

 

Side-note:  have any of you found better mold control results if you put a tablet in your toilet?  Like 10,000 flushes or a Lysol bleach tablet?

I have just been dx with type 2 diabetes.  I always wondered why black mold would grow in my upstairs toilet and not in the one downstairs.  Well, now I know why.  I never use the on downstairs, I just clean it.  I was told the sugar in my urine, (result of too much blood sugar) helped the mold to grow.  The sugar acts like food for the mold. Also it effect algae the same way.

I have a similar issue but am not diabetic (tested), although my father is (not residing with me).

 

I moved last year from my new condo to a 5 year old house. The day I moved in I noticed black mold in the master bathroom toilet. My previous condo never had it and I had never used this toilet before.

 

Now one year later .. it won't go away. I clean it and within a day or two its back in the bowl. The heaviest concentration is at the water edge and under the top edge (water inlet ring). If it was diabetes related I would think that the water inlet would not be affected. The tank is clean.

 

 

 

I thank God I found this site. I had moved at least 3 times in the past 4 years and was thinking something was wrong with the air! I know how serious diabetes is now, and will start back taking my meds. I also noticed that my bath towels (face and drying) were turning black (moldy looking) after short usage. My wifes towels will sit right next to mine on the rack, but would never get black. I guess I got sugar coming out of my pores too, huh? - lol, but serious now.

my wife has what would be considered as uncontrolled diabetes, lost 2 toes, constantly high blood sugar with insulin even and the bathroom toilet off of our bedroom, which she only uses, is constantly turning black with mold. I have recently gotten diabetes, and not on insulin cause my sugars don't run as high, have recently started seeing the black peppery mold showing in other bathroom toilet, which i always use. so yes, i'd say that the mold has something to do with the glucose amounts that accumulate in the toilet thus feeding the mold. my toilet doesn not get as bad as hers and my blood sugars aren't as bad either. Before my getting diabetes, my toilet never had this problem. I was wondering if it was the water or old toilets or what, lol. now i know.