Journey of Resilience on “Keeping Our Spaces Clean”
August 8, 2017
Sarah from Journey of Resilience wrote an article on “Keeping Our Spaces Clean.”
From the article:
As much as we try to avoid them, mold spores that float through the air are not our worst enemy, and with some elbow grease are fairly easy to wash away. The mycotoxins, however, are a different story.
There’s a lot of info out there on how to clean mold toxins, and bleach is commonly one of the first recommendations. However, we’ve learned that bleach can cause major problems
Rebekah’s blog post goes into more details about why bleaching mold can be even worse than leaving it alone! Since we are so sensitive to smells and strong chemicals, bleach ranks very high on the “avoid list” anyway, so we don’t even own a bottle.
One of the biggest lessons we have learned is that it’s a lot less headache to purchase new items and maintain them in a “mold-free” environment than to attempt to clean things that have been in a contaminated environment. The baby’s metal O2 tanks go in and out of warehouses and other people’s homes, so we are very thorough when we clean them after a delivery. The metal has cleaned up well for us, but plastic and fabric has not been as simple.
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