A clinician-speaker describes common, often-overlooked signs of hidden household mold and offers practical screening questions (water intrusion, humidity >50%, leaks, brown window stains, musty basement smells). The presenter emphasizes that such moisture events are very common—even when homeowners think they have no mold—based on long clinical experience and personal healing from mold exposure.
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We could look for or when to indicate that maybe we should probably get our environment tested. Any telltale signs there that you have? Yes. And I learned this decades ago when I started asking about mold and realized, oh, my goodness, maybe this push does mold. And what's funny is because I had had this experience of my own and then healing from mold, I was actually quite. I mean, we're, we're taught objectivity in medicine, meaning we don't want to assume anything. We use the data. So I was actually very careful not to assume that everybody had mold. But I kept finding it and kept finding it. I kept finding it so that now my staff jokes, because I think literally 100% of patients I've ever thought had mold, they've had it. Like, I've been right at the time. So back to a patient. So it's super common to say, do you have mold in your home? The kind of question you ask, and almost a hundred percent of you will like, no, or I tested, or I have a new home, so what gives? So first of all, I don't ever ask that question. I'm like, have you ever had water intrusion? Have you ever had water damage? Is there any sort of moisture issue? What's the humidity in your home? Is it above 50%? Is the crawl space been looked at, contained? Do you have any brown spots around the windows? Have you ever had a dishwasher leak? What about the fridge? What about a bathtub overflowing? What about, do you ever have a musty smell in the basement? And I could go on and on and on because I know, right? But all those questions, as you can imagine, if you're listening, you're like, oh, well, yeah, we had dishwasher leak two years ago. We fixed it. Or oh, yeah, my kid overflowed the bathtub one time and it went through the ceiling and we dried it up. Every home that I can think of has some little story.
