Posted by Beth --Previous Message--
on 3/10/2006, 7:33 am, in reply to "red mold in my office"
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I believe I may have the same thing. I live in a dorm on a college campus, attending a college-leve high school. I've gotten a sinus CT scan because of chronic cold-like/sinus infection symptoms that antibiotics and excessive allergy meds couldn't do away with. I'd been having these problems since early last November. The results of the scan came back informing me of what I was worried about, a chronic sinus infection, apparently resistant to the antibiotics I'd been perscribed. Now I'm going to see a ENT specialist, but I still have my suspicions. I've been getting sinus infections two or three times a year all of my life, but they have never lasted nearly this long. This has only occurred since I've been in this dorm, which has obvious mold and mildew colonies. When my fellow dorm-mates and I complained, we were told that the building is tested every three years for harmful molds, and that there are none. Excuse my language, but I think they're full of shit. I clean my room as much as possible, but there's only so much that can be done in the given time-frame and with what little cleaning supplies I have.
I was cleaning today, tired of the disgust, and I found a reddish substance on the sealing liner of my window. I believe it to be red mold, but I'm unsure. I've been doing research with pictures and other cases of red mold, and I'm sticking by my assumption.
This building also has no outer sealant or some sort, according to the RA, and they're supposed to be putting it in at some point in the next two years. .. But who knows when that'll happen, given the recent hurricanes and budget cuts ( I live in Louisiana ).
I'm not one to normally complain, but this is getting ridiculous.
I can't even put my bed fully against the wall because there's a colony of mildew forming in the corner there. I can't have anything of value near the window because, even though I leave it cold nearly all the time, water gets in daily and ruins my belongings and forms mold and mildew on most of the surfaces.
If anyone knows a specialist of any sort or someone of some kind of authority that can lend a helping hand in getting our school officials to do something about this, it would be IMMENSELY appreciated.
: If someone could provide me with any
: information?
:
: My office is located on the 1st floor of a 7
: story bldg. We've been experiencing water
: linking from the outside and seeping into
: our offices, etc. The building management
: tried to seal the areas but it continues to
: be a problem. Today, one of my colleagues
: discovered "red slime/mold, etc.
: growing under that thick plastic mat you
: place under your chair so that the carpet
: doesn't get messed up and the chair rolls
: easier. To our amazement, I had the same
: thing and 3 others (total of 5 of us-we are
: next to the glass wall of the building that
: leaks). All of us have "noticed"
: that our plastic mats were turning red but
: we just thought it was the plastic getting
: discolored from age??? We started recalling
: when we first "noticed" the
: redness and its been about 8 mo.-year. It
: is obviously a "living thing", it
: is red, pink or beet red. It is moist,
: slimey and smelly.
:
: I am concerned that this is red mold. Does
: this sound like red mold? Please help.
: I've notified by company, management and
: they are "sort-of-matter-of-fact"
: about it. I read up on Legionella and
: Legionnaires Disease. I cannot find
: anything about it "growing" like
: this? The conditions are great in the
: office: moisture, heat, the plastic, etc.
: Or maybe we have red algae??? Anything you
: can provide would be helpful. I need to
: mentioned that we have been sick and feeling
: sick (feverish, cough, muscle pain,
: headache, migraines, fatigue) or sometime
: but ,again, thought it was just
: "stress." I will be contacting
: our Department of Health as well. My email
: is rokero@att.net
: Ph (808)282-9045.
:
: Thank you.
:
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