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Why did using a dehumidifier make the mold worse?

October 4, 2008 in Mold and Mildew, Odors in basements, Odors in clothes by Martin | No comments

Let me tell you right up front, I run OdorXit Products and we sell odor control products that really work.

That being said, we get many phone calls from people who either have not read the relevant information about their odor problem on the OdorXit website or did not believe what they read. Though recently there have been a bunch of calls from people who have started using a dehumidifier in their wet moldy basement and as a direct result the apparent mold odor got much worse.

After giving this some thought and remembering what I had read regarding what happens as mold fungus goes into its dormant state.

When the mold fungus is deprived of water:

  • The fungus drys up and looks funny, as soon as the water (vapor) starts to disappear,
  • And in a desperate effort to propagate, the mold fungus produces millions of microscopic spores (seeds) that float in the air in order to  move to a more hospitable place.
  • Finally the fungus changes into its dormant state.

These spores are looking for a warm, wet, dark place to root and start a new life. If this criterion for a friendly place to live sounds familiar, it should. One is inside your chest called your lungs.

From the mold’s standpoint, this turns out to be not a vary friendly place to call home because of your immune system. Even if you are not “allergic” to mold or spores, your immune system takes this invasion very seriously and does what it knows how to do to fight off the intrusion.

The down side of the action taken by your immune system is that when it is triggered into action, it doesn’t just make the anti-bodies that fight off the mold infestation, it also makes all the anti-bodies you have ever produced to fight off every sickness you have ever had in the past.  Some of these anti-bodies can make you feel pretty bad.

Using the OdorXit ClO2 Product to kill the mold and spores is the easiest, cheapest, most effective way to rid your living space of mold and mold spores. It also gets rid of lots of other nastys too.

For lots more information check out OdorXit ClO2. There is lots of good inforation there.