{"id":886,"date":"2017-08-02T03:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T07:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:25:33","slug":"truth-fiction-worried-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/truth-fiction-worried-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth or Fiction: Should I Be Worried About Mold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_710\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\" wp-image-710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_10733137_xs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Not All Mold Needs Treatment, Get a Free Inspection\" width=\"241\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_10733137_xs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_10733137_xs.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not All Mold Needs Treatment, Get a Free Inspection<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The way late-night local news and personal injury attorneys describe it, you might have the impression that mold carries enormous, fatal health risks for everybody. That\u2019s not exactly true.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, landlords and businesses should worry about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/st-louis-landlord-sued-black-mold-infestation\/\">mold-related lawsuits<\/a>. On the other, people can relax\u2014just a bit\u2014knowing that many horror stories about mold are exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>Mold often triggers painful symptoms in people with respiratory problems. Breathing in too much mold can even hurt healthy people. More commonly, mold damages property when left untreated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Myths About Mold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gailen Marshall of UT Medical School recently delineated some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/stories\/2002\/07\/29\/editorial3.html\">facts and fiction about mold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\u2022 Various types of mold exist everywhere, inside and outside our homes<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\u2022 Mold has not been proven to cause brain damage<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\u2022 You should not pay for a mold test (we offer a free inspection for peace of mind)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\u2022 Most mold problems do not have to turn your life upside down (Stern Mold can kill mold without ripping out drywall!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\u2022 People with allergies, asthma, and compromised immune systems are the most likely to experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/mold-concerns.php\">mold health problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Best Way to Treat Mold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Stern Mold, we don\u2019t like to use fear-mongering to sell our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/moldexterm-system.php\">NJ mold removal<\/a> service. The truth about mold is bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>Untreated mold causes serious property damage and can cause or exacerbate lung diseases and breathing problems.<\/p>\n<p>What you might not know is that NJ mold removal has gotten cheap and fast. Stern Mold&#8217;s scientifically advanced system kills mold and seals surfaces so that the spores never grow back.<\/p>\n<p>Think you have mold or mold-related health symptoms? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/free-mold-treatment-quote.php\">Contact Stern Mold<\/a> or call 888-887-8376 for a free inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way late-night local news and personal injury attorneys describe it, you might have the impression that mold carries enormous, fatal health risks for everybody. That\u2019s not exactly true. On the one hand, landlords and businesses should worry about mold-related lawsuits. On the other, people can relax\u2014just a bit\u2014knowing that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,95,4],"tags":[51,14,83],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mold-and-your-health","category-mold-information","category-mold-treatment","tag-mold-and-health","tag-mold-information","tag-mold-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sternmold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}