Should We Take a Black Mold Health Problem For Granted?
This is because there are different types of black mold. Majority of these are not too harmful and may only make you teary-eyed or give you the sniffles after being exposed to it. On the other hand, there are black mold species that could give off toxins that are extremely harmful to the body. Stachybotrys chartarum is an example of a black mold that possesses highly poisonous mycotoxins. This mold species has been feared since the 1930s when horses and other farm animals in Ukraine and in areas in Europe which were given straw contaminated with S. chartarum became severely ill – exhibiting symptoms of stachybotryotoxicosis – with many of them even dying. The symptoms experienced by these hapless animals include severe irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and mouth; a drop in the number of white blood cells; various nervous disorders, haemorrhage, and dermal necrosis. It was later found out by Russian scientists that the cellulose-rich straw had been the breeding grounds of Stachybotr
