Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how mold exposure triggers mast cell activation, causing rashes, itching, and breathing problems. Treating symptoms with inhalers or steroids alone won't help. Check your home and work for water damage and remove the mold.
You're going to the dermatologist for this rash and this itching all over your body, and then you're going to the pulmonologist because you're having breathing issues, but they're not putting those 2 pieces together that it's the same disease, it's the same syndrome, right?
And you can throw Band-Aids, you know, an inhaler or a steroid, and on all the symptoms, but you're never getting to that root cause if it's mast cell activation. So the root, root cause is checking your home, checking your work environment, if there's any history of water damage, trying to figure out what's going on because getting rid of that mold will start the process of actually calming those mast cells down.
