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Suggest Treatment For Long Term Mold Exposure

I have been living in a house that has had a mold issue, apparently for years. I have many symptoms especially a consistent I have recently had a chest ex-ray and a lung scan with no findings. What treatments are used to treat long term mold exposure.
Thu, 1 Oct 2015
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I warmly Welcome you!

Thanks for consulting me at virtual clinic HCM. I hope all of your health concerns resolve after this answer.


First of all you need to stop the source of exposure. Get your house thoroughly cleaned of molds and avoid contact with fungus anymore.

If you don't have any findings in lungs, then you are lucky enough not to worry much. It was a major issues if it was there in lungs infecting and causing issues.

You need to take care of your skin. And keep an eye on skin as this is the major organ affected by the fungus. And if you feel rash, itching or any other finding, consult your physician righr away as it may be due to fungal infection.


Management in such longterm exposure cases starts with screening of lungs and you went very right with that. If lungs have had some growth of fungi, definitelt we needed to start antifungal medications for you. But you are good to go.

Now the management goes wait and see and will go symptomatic as to see if you get some fungal infection on skin, we will need to treat that accordingly.



Hope it helps. Feel free to contact me anytime if you need further assistance.

Regards!
DR.HANIF
USA
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Suggest Treatment For Long Term Mold Exposure

I warmly Welcome you! Thanks for consulting me at virtual clinic HCM. I hope all of your health concerns resolve after this answer. First of all you need to stop the source of exposure. Get your house thoroughly cleaned of molds and avoid contact with fungus anymore. If you don t have any findings in lungs, then you are lucky enough not to worry much. It was a major issues if it was there in lungs infecting and causing issues. You need to take care of your skin. And keep an eye on skin as this is the major organ affected by the fungus. And if you feel rash, itching or any other finding, consult your physician righr away as it may be due to fungal infection. Management in such longterm exposure cases starts with screening of lungs and you went very right with that. If lungs have had some growth of fungi, definitelt we needed to start antifungal medications for you. But you are good to go. Now the management goes wait and see and will go symptomatic as to see if you get some fungal infection on skin, we will need to treat that accordingly. Hope it helps. Feel free to contact me anytime if you need further assistance. Regards! DR.HANIF USA