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Overview of Diagnosis

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Mold Illness begins insidiously, as it quietly and silently takes away energy, cognition, and easy breathing; it leaves behind pain, fatigue, and often weight gain. Surviving Mold begins by teaching its victims what is wrong with them and continues by explaining how to get the proper treatment to get well.

Knowledge is power. Surviving Mold begins with knowing what is wrong and developing a plan to defeat the harmful effects taking place in your body. You are not alone, and you are not crazy. You may have been to numerous doctors and specialists who have told you that all of your tests are normal - and, they probably are! But, if they have not checked on tests that have been proven to show abnormalities in inflammatory markers in your body, you have not been properly tested...if you are still showing symptoms of illness. The illness has strong genetic roots and in the end, the injuries patients suffer will not go away without intervention.

Long periods of time suffering from the illness steal hope, breed depression, and erode the desire to live. Defeating that desolation is part of Surviving Mold, too.

Surviving Mold is the beginning of what we'd all like to see: an illness defeated and lives restored, all over the world.

This section will focus on how some with mold illness feel, what causes the illness, and what happens in the body.

Dr. Shoemaker on Biotoxin Illness

We invite you to view this hour and a half talk given by Dr. Shoemaker to a group of physicians in November of 2011. It gives an extensive overview of biotoxin illness and the many components that make up diagnosis and treatment.

What Is Mold Illness?

Biotoxin Illness - World Health Organization Mold illness is not an allergy. It is inflammation within the body which is caused by an immune system that has gone haywire. The term "mold illness" is a subcategory of biotoxin illness, called Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). The proper definition of CIRS is:

an accute and chronic, systemic inflammatory response syndrome acquired following exposure to the interior environment of a water-damaged building with resident toxigenic organisms, including, but not limited to fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes and mycobacteria as well as inflammagens such as endotoxins, beta glucans, hemolysins, proteinases, mannans, c-type lectins and possibly spirocyclic drimanes, plus volatile ogranic compounds.

Symptoms

If you are experiencing several of these symptoms, you could be suffering from mold illness. Take the Online Screening Test to determine your probability of having this illness.

♦Fatigue ♦Weakness ♦Aches ♦Muscle Cramps ♦Unusual Pain ♦Ice Pick Pain ♦Headache ♦Light Sensitivity ♦Red Eyes ♦Blurred Vision ♦Tearing ♦Sinus Problems ♦Cough ♦Shortness of Breath ♦Abdominal Pain ♦Diarrhea ♦Joint Pain ♦Morning Stiffness ♦Memory Issues ♦Focus/Concentration Issues ♦Word Recollection Issues ♦Decreased Learning of New Knowledge ♦Confusion ♦Disorientation ♦Skin Sensitivity ♦Mood Swings ♦Appetite Swings ♦Sweats (especially night sweats) ♦Temperature Regulation or Dysregulation Problems ♦Excessive Thirst ♦Increased Urination ♦Static Shocks ♦Numbness ♦Tingling ♦Vertigo ♦Metallic Taste ♦Tremors

This illness affects multiple systems in the body, which causes the patient to exhibit multiple symptoms.

How Did I Get Sick?

This illness happens after exposure to the interior environment of a Water-Damaged Building (WDB). There are many ways buildings become home to a toxic mix of microbes, fragments of microbes, and harmful chemicals. Buildings can host fungi, bacteria, mycobacteria, and actinomycetes as a result of construction defects like inappropriate ventilation; faulty construction of crawl spaces or inadequate building design; flat roofs or fake stucco cladding without adequate caulking; incomplete basements exposed to saturated ground water conditions; or not correcting water leaks.

Since 1998, Dr. Shoemaker has treated over 6,000 patients with an illness caused by exposure to these conditions. Each patient has a syndrome that is readily identified by blood tests performed in standard medical labs all over the country. These illnesses reflect a growing societal problem: dangerous buildings. Inhaling these dangerous inflammagens is what makes people sick.

We live in the Era of Dangerous Buildings, so the likelihood that you won't ever be exposed to dangerous buildings is quite low.

What Happens in the Body?

Many patients don't "look that bad." But that person is struggling with an illness that causes them to lose their quality of life. These patients didn't know that their genes made them prime targets for an assault by their own innate immune systems. Because of exposure to the interior environment of a Water-Damaged Building (WDB), these patients have an innate immune response that is going haywire.

At the core of why one person becomes ill from this exposure and another doesn't is because of their genetic susceptibility (or predisposition) - what is built into their DNA. Every person's innate immune system is personal and genetically coded - thus, it works differently for each of us. When the body is faced with a foreign substance, it immediately begins to process that substance - determine if it is good or bad, a friend or a foe. If the body determines the substance is a foe, it will develop antibodies to bind these substances, called antigens. Normally then, the next time a non-mold susceptible person walks into a WDB, his antibodies will target the antigen and clear it out fast.

However, there is an occurence of specific genes in about 25% of the population that cause this process of building antibodies to the substances in the WDB to fail. Think of a computer operating system full or errors. In these people, the antigens stay in the body, and our own defenses bombard our body and cause inflammation in the body to go wild. What you now have is a shell of a person who is defenseless against new exposures and is suffering daily from inflammation. The inate immune system doesn't recognize these toxic organisms and goes nuts in the body.

It is a vicious cycle - the foreign antigens (substances) stay in the body, causing the immune system to constantly fight back. This causes so much inflammation in the body that it leads to chronic illness, and the occurrence of the many symptoms listed above. Our entire being suffers from friendly fire from our own innate immune system.

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The online screening test is a measure of one of the neurologic functions of vision called contrast. Your corrected visual acuity must be better than 20:50.

There must be adequate illumination. We use a light meter to confirm 70 foot-lamberts or more. Light from both the illuminated computer screen and an overhead light is usually sufficient. The test is taken with one eye covered and one open at a distance of 18” from the computer screen. You will do the test first with the left eye and then with the right eye. You need to make sure the distance from the screen stays constant at 18”. Some people have found that cutting a string to an 18“ length helps keep the distance correct.

Your score is recorded according to published criteria for VCS testing. It is a ”Pass/Fail,” though how well you do can be used to assess your improvement over time or worsening with re-exposure/repeat illness.

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Step By Step

1. Differential Diagnosis begins with a compulsively obtained data base - answering questions like what could be wrong? The labs needed to show inflammatory abnormalities are collected, and the labs that are always normal in biotoxin illness are also collected.

2. Performing ERMI testing to ensure there is no exposure to a building ith an ERMI greater than 2 if the patient's MSH is less than 35 and C4a is less than 20,000; or no exposure to ERMI greater than negative 1 if MSH is less than 35 and C4a is greater than 20,000.

3. Removal from prior exposure (this means no more working, schooling, or living in a moldy environment for WDB illness patients)

4.Correcting toxin carriage in the body with CSM (Cholestyramine) or Welchol, using VCS monitoring to assess progress

5. Eradicating biofilm-forming MARCoNS

6. Eliminating gluten for those with anti-gliadin positivity as shown by a positive blood test, with celiac disease ruled out

7. Correcting elevated MMP9

8. Correcting ADH/osmolality

9. Correcting low VEGF

10. Correcting elevated C3a

11. Correcting elevated C4a

12. Reducing elevated TGF beta-1

13. Replacing low VIP

14. Final check to verify stability off meds

5 Things All Mold Illness Patients Need to Know

1. Always have a plan.

2. Be careful extending your ankles in bed, as the muscle spasm, the wrenching, twisting, knotting cramps caused by capillary hypoperfusion, which in turn, is caused by inflammatory compounds seen in some CIRS-WDB.

3. Never take steroid meds by mouth unless threatened with death.

4. Trust your new-onset symptoms to tell you to get out of exposure.

5. Ask for objective data from anyone who says you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia (they don't have any). Having a positive XMRV test might not mean anything. What do the inflammation labs show?

6. Never do two interventions at once. If you do, you will have little hope of using scientific principles to get better. All you are doing is guessing. See why later.

7. It is a good bet your crawl space is moldy or your basement is moldy.

8. The diagnosis you had last year does not necessarily make sense this year.

9. If a health care provider says adrenal fatigue or androgen deficiency (without testing MSH), be very worried. And when they talk about reverse T3, run away.

10. Demand peer reviewed publications to support the basis of new therapies.

11. Never use cash-only labs unless you need new liners for canary cages.

12. Never trust negative air samples or those who rely on them to say "no mold."

13. Administrators are known to lie. And they do. Trust rarely.

14. Don't believe for a minute that you need virus killers, anti-depressants, fibromyalgia pills or bizarre therapies. You need a plan based on hard science.

15. Always evaluate action taken thoroughly. Never make assumptions without checking.

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