Medical professionals Many of our medical professional clients are qualified "Functional Medicine" practitioners, but increasingly we assist MDs and GPs with providing possible exposure and these is great.
Equally, since COVID the general public have become much more aware of the science of CIRS and Mitochondrial disfunction. Unfortunately, Dr. Google can provide the wrong route and many causes or triggers should be investigated to identify possible inflammagens present.
ERMI typically, has been held up as a indicator of safe or unsafe in homes with HERTSMI 2 misinterpreted as safe or unsafe to enter homes and building. With the actual developers of ERMI Steve Vesper, and co together with the USA government, they have specifically warned ERMI should not be used for risk and hazard assessment and has no use in amateur hands. ERMI can be extremely misleading and lead to no action where action is required or total demolition of homes when it was unnecessary.
Patients may also present urine samples with off the scale mycotoxin results and plead for treatment, which may be unnecessary.
There are of course major indicators of CIRS and water damage illness, typically described as mould illness and these can include;
Asthma Multiple Sclerosis Obesity and rarely unexplained weight loss Development of ADHD and Bi Polar, Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, Chrones and Autism. Early menopause, spontaneous abortion, general Gynae issues Effects on Autonomic nervous system affecting both central and peripheral nervous system. There are also major hazards with mycotoxins which can have diverse and powerful toxigenic effects which include:
Carcinogenic: cause cancer Hepatoxic: toxic to the liver Immunotoxic: toxic to the immune system Dermatoxic: toxic to skin Teratogenic: cause foetal abnormalities Neurotoxic: toxic to the brain and nervous system Estrogenic: cause elevated levels of Estrogen Haemorrhagic: cause internal bleeding and bruising Nephrotoxic: toxic to kidneys Mutagenic: cause genetic abnormalities Not wishing to or indeed qualified to enter the world of medical science we cannot provide treatment advice, but we can recommend sampling and investigation of exposure routes from likely triggers present in properties we investigate. We will, when or if requested by functional medicine and main stream medical professionals, provide links to resources on specialist blood, urine and other useful information.
While health complaints often result in tests for Mycotoxins, we now recognise these are likely to represent less than 12% of any inflammatory response and from genetic testing and analysis by Dr Jim Ryan various form of bacteria have been identified as likely being responsible for over 50% of symptoms.
Building Forensics can assist in identifying their presence and developing a decontamination strategy.