Health Effects Of Mold

what are the health effects of mold? I need as many listed as possible as trying to get neighbors in building
to understand dangers and sign petition to send to health department. What are the dangers and health effects of a room in the building loaded with mold, I am told by those who saw it, from top to bottom. thank yoy.

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What are the health effects of mold?
We are renting a home and the bathtub leaks. It had leaked for a long time and when we moved it leaked through(it's on the 2nd floor). So there is a hole in our ceiling and the sheetrock has mold on it. My landlord is having problems getting a reliable plumber over here. It has been exposed for a month and we are breathing in the mold spores. I have 2 kids(3 & 5). I was wondering if there is a serious effect on our health from the mold. I myself am real phlemy(?) a lot. My roomate is having issues with her sinuses. I don't know about my kids. Could the mold be causing hers and my problems? And are there other problems that it could cause? Thank you.

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Can mold make you sick? Is it possible that the water leaks we had during the summer are making us sick?
My fiance and I have been living in our apartment for about a year and a half now. Its a fairly new building (less than 5 years old), but there were what we now know to be water stains on the ceiling in the living room when we moved in. Last winter a blizzard blew some shingles and siding off the building and they didn't fix it till the fall. We had water damage in our living room (a leaking ceiling with new water stains and the growth of an old one and a leak under/around the a/c which damaged the paint and drywall slightly from what we can see). I don't even think anybody actually did take a look at the damage and if they did nothing got done. This happened before new management took over. Anyways since this summer both my fiancé and I have been having health issues (mine are minor, his are severe). My question is this. What are the possible health effects of mold and should we be really pushing the apartment people to fix this before we sign our new lease? I'll add a bit about the health issues we have been having. For myself its been a slight worsening of regular allergies, a new severe allergy to minocycline (but I took textracycline no problem, i'm also allergic to amoxicillin), some chest congestion that doesnt seem to be going away, a bit of coughing once in awhile, a fungal skin infection i have had for a long time, some bumps under my arms that look like pimples (tetracycline didn't work, and i was allergic to minocycline, so off to the derm I go), a bit of concentration issues, sleep issues. As for my fiancé, his were worse. He had a kidney stone in october that was misdiagnosed at first in september. He ended up having to get it surgically removed. They put a stent in and he got an infection, was allergic to medicine they gave him. So they gave him a different thing. He's has some problems since then, with a heart arrythmia with chest pain, worsening of his poultry allergy, tired all the time, feels kinda icky lots. He also has had a very severe reaction to a new asthma inhaler (same chemical as his old one, just different brand, He hardly uses it since hes mostly outgrown his asthma). He has always had allergies. Hes been having stomach pains again lately. Also is complaining of coughing once in awhile, his immune system is shot, his doctor thinks it might be chronic fatigue for lack of anything else. Is it at all possible these problems (or at least some of them) are due to possible mold in the apartment. We clean regularily and he is a clean freak. Vaccum, wash floors with swiffer wet jet every week, clean bathroom, kitchen counters, coffee tables, wash towels floor rugs and sheets every week. We have a dog that we got this summer but that isn't the issue because we both had dogs of the same breed before without being sick. Our dog also is having allergy problems we think. Yeah we had dripping water from one spot in the ceiling for a day after the bad rainstorms and it poured in (soaked a towel in maybe 15 minutes) around the air conditioner, which was improperly installed in our apartment in the first place. Unfortunately the place was built crappy. Its still a lot better than a lot of places in the city and since the rental availability in the city is only at about 0.6% (since they have had a big boom here with lots of condo conversions without city council stopping them) and we have a dog, finding a new place to live would be hard. Especially since rents have gone through the roof here. Our rent has increased almost $300 in the last year and a half. That's been the average here. Our 2 bedroom apartment is now renting for $1060. Renting a house would cost at least $1300/mo. Our apartment is in the area we like where there are few apartments (most have gone to condos) and the only open apartments don't allow dogs or are rundown. I actually used to live in a house with a seriously mold infested bathroom. Our place seems like spotless compared to that filthy pigsty. I never had allergies until I moved in there. I lived there for 2 years. they still haven't fixed it maybe this summer they will fix it. It's a family owned house. Anyways, we can't see any mold in the apartment, but we know there is water damage and I got to thinking we might have a mold problem after reading stuff online.

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