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Posted Today 12:56 PM (GMT 0)
My mycotoxin test results came back (The Great Plains lab), ochratoxin A came back positive - 9.65
From what I see the reference range for positive result is 4-20.

Is this high, or very high?
What I am trying to figure out (I know it might be impossible) is wheter I have contammination only from the previous house I lived in (I know for a fact there was some mold), or am I still being exposed to it. I can't find traces of mold where I currently live, but I feel something is bothering me here. Then, what is bothering me could simply be lyme, or just mold inside my body. I moved out from previous place a year and 4 months ago. It's clear that my body is unable to detoxify mold on its own, but could it stay this high for this long. I've done all kinds of detox since april, but not cholestyramine. I started A-FNG by Byron White for mold very recently, 10 days ago.
Posted Today 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
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Posted 12/4/2018 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
Not sure if that’s “high” or not. I did mine through Realtime Labs. They have different ranges.

Only an ERMI (Mycometrics Labs) can tell you if you are still being exposed to mold in your current location.

Mycotoxins can be present on possessions. Did you bring your possessions from the moldy house with you when you moved? Paper and books are the worst. I have gone into a screaming rage before after being exposed to papers that came out of my house and could still smell the toxins on them. Upholstered furniture like sofas and mattresses are trash. Clothes can be washed in borax and hot water. Dishes can be washed.
Posted 12/4/2018 6:00 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, I did bring mattresses and books with me.. Sigh.
So much to deal with on top of illness.

Thanks so much WalkingbyFaith, thanks Girlie for bumping.
Posted 12/5/2018 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
Hard to say if this is a problem since ochrtoxins are typically from food and many have them at various levels. These mycotoxin tests can go either way your body is either doing a good job excreting them (hence higher results) or not (lower results).

This is more an experimentation opportunity for you. I would try Welchol (first choice if you can get a script for it) or Alli (OTC weight loss supplement). My old LLMD used Alli because it prevents some cholesterol from being absorbed by your digestive tract (hence the losing weight part) and that cholesterol then binds to mycotoxins and flushes them out through your colon.
Posted 12/5/2018 2:34 PM (GMT 0)

Rikky1 said...
Hard to say if this is a problem since ochrtoxins are typically from food

I’ve read that before, but I’m not buying it. I had mycotoxin tests done twice - 16 months apart. My first test I had very little Ochratoxin A. Those levels increased after I moved. My mother’s did too. We lived in the same places and were tested at the same time.

Not like I started eating a bunch of peanuts, corn, or grains before the follow up test. I know there are crop that are very prone to mycotoxin contamination, but I don’t really believe that people who test positive for Ochratoxin A are being poisoned by food. I believe it’s far more likely from water damaged building exposure.

My sense in the past has been that those who try to poo-poo the idea that mold exposure can cause the range of health effects and illness that it does are the ones who try to discredit positive mycotoxin testing of humans, implying that the toxins are from food and not their moldy buildings.

The dog in this case study of a very sick family in a water damaged building had Ochratoxin A in his skin lesions.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/312836/
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