Mold

[brightlotusmoon]

Adam is exhibiting symptoms of mold exposure.
http://www.azmolddog.com/mold-signs.html
Crap.

The hotel where he's working was badly flooded on Saturday (a water main broke), and they're still drying out the second floor, where he has been working. They've been spraying chemical air fresheners and cleaning agents on the ancient carpents and all sorts of things to try and dry out. I can't even imagine all the levels of chemical toxicity floating around in the air. Apparently several people have started feeling sick since yesterday.
The place smells like mold, all damp and icky. It smells like chemicals.
I have no idea how bad mold exposure can get. This worries me. I don't know how long he will be sick for. Since Monday, he's been working at least twelve hours with very few chances to go outside. Last night he came home with respiratory trouble, congestion, sore scratchy throat, red watery eyes, clogged sinuses, headaches, malaise, nausea, diarrhea, and stomach pain.

Then again, he might just have a bad cold, but common colds don't usually come with upset stomach problems.

*frowns*

Comments

[queen-lily-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh No! I Hope He's Alright!

[shiefox.livejournal.com]

"i thought thay broke the mold but looks like some of it
it grew back." i had to runn to cvs and i bought a fist full of drugs so at least im treating the simptoms. contiplating seting the hotel on fire to treat the cause

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Good. But you still need to see a doctor. No excuses. Mold exposure can fuck a body up real good.

[fyremoon.livejournal.com]

In the UK, the hotel would be shut down for health and safety violations and any workers would have to be equipped with breathing apparatus.

Here health and safety is taken very highly since the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) have powers to imprison employers and impose unlimited fines.

I hope he doesn't get sick because of this.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I really hope the hotel will be shut down. I want it evacuated, say, yesterday.

[ronin-lethe.livejournal.com]

okay, stop.
mold exposure--the type which you are concerned about--happens over the course of, at the very least months. not hours, and not days, unless one has such an unusual sensitivity to mold that it would be possible (he doesn't, and i know it because he has gone camping in the fall, which is when mold is at its peak). what he is exhibitingis classic symptoms of chemical exposure. he needs to get them to open the windows, or walk off the job. it isn't the mold that's doing this. the worst that would happen from the mold at this point would be headaches, maybe eye problems.
now, he has every right to be worried about the chemical exposure, it is dangerous, and it is real. but for heaven sakes, don't go ascribing him sick building syndrome after 4 days. some people live with this for years, because they have no choice.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Voice of reason. I panicked.

[ronin-lethe.livejournal.com]

i know, that's why i intervened =)
seriously, though, he does need to make them open those windows. chemicals + breathing = yuck!

love you *snuggles*

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Love you too! Seriously, you always know what to say. And I feel better now for it.
Chemicals would cause stomach yuckiness a lot faster than mold would, I think. Gahh.
I don't think that floor HAS windows!
:(