throat constriction - Environmental Disorders Message Board

charitinaf · 05-22-2007, 03:25 AM

I have had chronic 24 hour throat constriction for 5 years now. It is undiagnosed though I have been tested for many, many things including gerd, lpr, and allergies. We do live in a house with a spring in the basement and I do know there is some mold problems. We have 8 children and none of these have symptoms. I left the house for 3 weeks once on vacation with no improvement. Could my symptom be related to mold or not?

Alagaesia · 05-22-2007, 11:37 PM

The only way to know if its mold or not is to get your place tested. It could be other things as well like the cleaning products that you use. Have you had your throat x-rayed at all?

Bearygood · 05-23-2007, 08:40 AM

Just this morning a friend of mine told me that her chronic problems had finallyh been diagnosed as a yeast infection due to mold exposure. The problems manifested in her throat and she sounded like a frog.

As Alagaesia said, there's no way of telling without testing. You say you know there have been problems with mold so I don't know why you wouldn't, especially with children in the house! Regardless of whether or not there are symptoms you can see, it needs to be dealt with. Not that much is known about mold but one thing IS -- and that's that it is NOT good.

From what I've seen, some problems will go away on their own if they're removed from exposure but others will not without treatment. If a medical diagnosis can't be made and appropriately treated, it may require a detox of some type [removed]. I hope you don't have mold but if you do, make sure you keep copies of the reports to show the levels and what type it is.

Good luck!

charitinaf · 05-23-2007, 09:55 AM

Yes, I have had a ct scan of my throat. Also I did a couple of those mold tests you buy at the store and they both came back negative.

Bearygood · 05-23-2007, 11:59 AM

My testing was done by an environmental engineer. He took air samples outside to get levels and then compared indoor samples in various parts of the dwelling and sent to the lab. The levels in my living room were highly elevated and in the kitchen somewhat. (The leak from the roof had settled in these two areas.)

To start the remediation, the place was cleaned by professionals and "air scrubbers" put on high for two days. They also cut into the areas we suspected hidden mold might still be lurking. Follow-up levels by the environmental engineer on the rooms were clean which meant that all airborne spores had now been dealt but the samples he took from the areas inside the ceiling that had been cut open showed high levels of aspergillus and one other type of mold. That's being taken care of as I type this and if follow-up testing is clean, we can start building back and I can take a big sigh of relief!

I'm not familiar with mold tests from the store. How exactly do you administer them and what do they test for? (There are MANY different strains of dangerous mold.)