Black Mold

Mandie asked:


I live in an old house (probably built around 1940) located in Connecticut. Older homes like mine usually have layers of wallpaper sealed on every inch of the house. It has been raining heavily during this summer and the rain is leaking through my window. The water gets between the wallpaper and the wall causing the wallpaper to peel. I teared off some wallpaper a few weeks ago and found this black fuzzy mold that is kind of chalky. It rained today and I teared off some more wallpaper and it looks like this mold or mildew is growing up my wall. Does anyone know what this is and should I be worried?

bbeecher1 asked:

Walgreens in 7 stores selling expired food from over 3 years old and doing nothing about it. Black mold growing. Here are them pulling it from the shelf at one location. Don’t feed this to your baby!! Black mold growing. Check the date before you feed your child.

uSoBayArea asked:

Aired – May 16, 2004
The Extreme Makeover Home Edition team provides the right medicine for a young man whose house was making him sick. It wasn’t easy for Carrie Powell to bring relief to her younger son, Keenan, who suffers from a rare cell disorder, asthma, as well as allergies. It was all made worse by the dust and living mold in their Arleta, California home. Doctors told Carrie that Keenan wouldn’t live to see his first birthday. Determined to not give up hope, Carrie, a florist by trade, turned to her herb garden to help Keenan deal with his diseases. Keenan beat the odds and is now a strapping 16-year old who wears a size 15 shoe and stands at 6 feet tall. Keenan has been able to keep his health in check, but keeping the house hypo-allergenic for him has been a problem. So, the team of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” in an episode airing on SUNDAY, MAY 16 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), made a house call. Their mission was to prescribe the right antidote for Keenan by eradicating the black mold and providing a healthy, new environment for the entire family. While the divorced Carrie learned to grow her own medicinal herbs for Keenan, she lost job after job because she had to take time off every time Keenan was admitted to the hospital. In addition to caring for Keenan and her older son, Chris, now 25, she couldn’t keep up with the expenses of constantly fixing things in the house that made Keenan sick. Before Chris leaves for military duty in the Middle East, he wanted to make sure his mom and little brother would be well taken care of and the house be no longer toxic to Keenan. Carrie, Keenan and Chris went on a vacation to New York. The design team for this episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” features team leader Ty Pennington, Dawson Connor, Alle Ghadban, Paige Hemmis and Michael Moloney.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/index?pn=index