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Kym Wald's avatar

I had a reaction to stachybotrys that hospitalized me for five days. Stachy can absolutely cause diarrhea and or vomiting. I had a very high fever, rigors and my white cells were so high that they thought I had sepsis. I had cleaned the mold myself and dispersed it into the air. With stachy this is very dangerous. Unfortunately it was in my apartment so I had to dispose of everything ( we hired someone because I could t go back in) Also, when they went in to clean it out there was a layer of geeen and white mold on everything as if it has sat there for months. Turns out through testing it was stachybotrys and aspergillus and penicillin which are very toxic as well and seem to trice together with stachybotrys. If you have any questions at all please feel free to email me at kymwald@ gmail.com

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Mary Stokes's avatar

I have two questions: 1) did you look under the carpet? There could be a field of stachybotrys under there.

And, from personal experience, 2) how intense was the pain? The muscle contractions, the nausea, the diarrhea, all of it could have been a stress response to some furious organ in crisis (e.g., a gallbladder passing a gallstone). I would ask for an ultrasound if the mystery deepens.

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