Most often, the mold replicates in damp, poorly ventilated rooms. Resembling mildew molds are: garbage cans, air conditioners, heating appliances, bathrooms, flower pots, cellars, attics, garages. The more you know about mold, the better for your health.
Mold (both house and food) is dangerous for health, in particular, for the child's body. It develops and spreads spores, which, getting into the human body, become powerful allergens and pathogens of various diseases. If mold spores penetrate the body through the respiratory system, they provoke the occurrence of allergic bronchitis or asthma. When mold spores get into the human body through the gastrointestinal tract, spores provoke food or skin allergies. If you are suffering from a permanent migraine, then it can also be an allergic reaction to mold spores. You need to consult an allergist.
To protect yourself and your loved ones from the negative impact on the body of mold, you need to take care that its dispute in the air of your home was as small as possible. To do this, you must follow certain rules.
Every day, ventilate the house, creating a draft for 15 minutes. Such full airing is much more effective than a constantly open window, as they expel used and polluted air from the house. Do not forget to ventilate various pantries, piles, attics and garages.
Pay special attention to the bathroom when cleaning, as most bathroom accessories suffer from mold most. After taking a bath or a shower, well ventilate the bathroom, let it dry out. Do not leave wet mats in the bathroom. They need to be washed often and dried well if they are soaked. The shower curtain should also be dry. After using the bast, they must be dried, then cleaned in a cabinet until the next use.
Do not store dirty wet clothes, mold is started in it instantly. Wash the laundry immediately out of the washing machine and hang it. Linen should be dried in a room with good ventilation, and best of all - on the balcony.
The trash can also be subjected to frequent disinfection. After you take out a bucket from the bucket, wash it with a cleaning agent and dry it well.
Never eat foods on which mold has appeared. If the bread has become moldy from the edge, then it should be thrown away, as the loaf is completely affected by spores of mold. The breadbasket should be washed well and dried in the sun. Do not use moldy flour and cereals. Remember that the most dangerous is yellow mold, it is more often formed in flour, cereals, food products. Getting into the body, spores of yellow mold disastrously act on healthy cells, causing liver cancer and other serious illnesses. In Russia, yellow mold will fall with peanuts and peanut flour, rice and rice flour. Be extremely careful when choosing these products.
Iodine is harmful to mold. In order not to spoil the cereals and bread, you can put a jar with a cotton swab soaked in iodine in a cabinet with cereals (or in breadbox).
If you notice the mold on the book, then you do not need to shake it and wipe it with a rag, it will not help. The only way to remove mold from a book is to dry it in the sun, and then treat it with formalin solution. To prevent mold from affecting all of your books, you need to remove them from the shelf from time to time and ventilate them literally.
Mold stains from various surfaces are removed with the help of soda (1 gallon per glass of water).
It is interesting to know that the blue mold, which is used to create the famous cheese with molds such as roquefort, cheddar, dorblyu, is not dangerous to human health. But allergic people should still refrain from using such products, so as not to damage their health. Cheeses with mold are made as follows: a useful blue mold is added to the fresh cheese, which gives the cheese an incomparable pungent taste and a blue color. Blue mold is obtained with the help of bread cakes, which for this purpose are kept in a damp cellar for 6-8 weeks.
Take care of your health!