Aaron Hartman, MD, explains how CIRS develops from environmental triggers like mold and tick-borne illness. He describes his own college housing exposure plus a tick bite that made him sick, and lists other sources: breast implants, dental problems, military chemicals, and pilot fuel exposure. Finding the trigger often means looking beyond the obvious.
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This exposure could be. I was in college for four years. The house. Who grew up four years had mold issues. Didn't know, got a tick bite, and that triggered everything. So a lot of times you have to go a little deeper and dig a little deeper, but there's that exposure. And sometimes it's a slow, long exposure, and sometimes it's, hey, I went in this really super moldy place, and a month. And I started feeling foggy. But that's the nuance. And a lot of times I'll have patients. I'm sure you do as well. Where it's like, you have to dig and dig. And they're like, I never lived in a moldy house. I've never had exposure. But also realizing that it's not just the water damage building. There's also these other things. Breast implant illness, dental issues. So that's where the exposure gets a little deeper. If you're in the military, chemical exposure, and pilots are exposed to a lot of petroleum biotoxins. Now, we know we didn't mention this before, but Gafour syndrome is another chronic inflammatory response syndrome where people were getting exposed to tons of vaccines and then inhaling burning petroleum for a year.