Humans and mold

Molds live with humans in their houses. Mold basically needs organic matter for their survival. They generally take this organic content from dead plants and animals. But since organic content can be even in indoor places like houses and commercial building, they can exist and hence need to be detected in houses by performing mold test. Los Angeles has always attracted population from around the globe to come and live there. More population has caused and upsurge in number of new residential building construction. More houses also means now there are more mold related complaints coming every day. This large number of mold complaints has also created a new market of mold inspection and mold remediation service providers. Los Angeles is a hub for these service provider as well as it is a hub for finding buildings.

Are mold always harmful to humans?

A short answer to this question will be no. Molds are not always harmful to humans. In fact they can be good for humans and environment alike in some ways. Molds feed on dead plants and animal. Hence they are in a way a cleansing agent. They play an important role in cleaning the environment of organic waste and also recycling the precious nutrients from dead plants and animals back to the environment. So here mold is our friend. Also not allmold species are harmful to humans. In fact there are over one lakh species of molds and only a handful of those are harmfulto us. Only those mold spices which releases toxins can pose threat to human health. This toxin is known as mycotoxin is a constituent of mold excreta. Also an important point to note here is, not all people are susceptible for mold related allergies. Some people may have immune that is resistant to mold related side effect. Also one can be more prone to mold relate symptoms on account of an already existing sickness, which causes less immunity against molds.

Molds are not always harmless to humans

Molds are not always our friend. At least indoor presence of molds is bad in most cases. Large mold presence in house can cause various kinds of health related symptoms in the residence of the house. So in short one should not welcome or ignore molds in their house. Once suspected it’s a good idea to call mold inspection experts for mold testing

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