Can wearing clothes with mildew on them make you sick?

[Anonymous]

Can the spores land on your food, for example?

[Anonymous]

Uh yes

[Anonymous]

Uh yes. Inhaling spores and biowaste

[Anonymous]

Wth yes.

[Anonymous]

What do clothes with mildew look like? How can you tell? Do they have black mold spots or are you referring to white residue that can be seen on dark clothing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh yes. Inhaling spores and biowaste

+ 1 welcome to chronic bronchitis and pneumonia

[Anonymous]

Please seek help for your health anxiety. Please also research how people lived 100+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Everything you eat has mold spores on it. They are floating in the air and you take them in with every breath. They are in your drinking water. They have no effect on a person with a normal immune system.

When you say "clothes with mildew", do you mean clothes that were left wet and never washed? Or are you talking about mildew stains that remain after going through the washer? While neither would make a healthy person sick, it's a little gross if the clothes were never washed. If the clothes are clean and it's just a stain, then... it's just a stain.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s health anxiety lady again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh yes. Inhaling spores and biowaste

+ 1 welcome to chronic bronchitis and pneumonia

Fungal pneumonia is something you see in people with advanced AIDS (untreated HIV). It is never seen in a person with a normal immune system. Mold spores do not cause bacterial infections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do clothes with mildew look like? How can you tell? Do they have black mold spots or are you referring to white residue that can be seen on dark clothing?

The only time I've seen clothes with mildew is when I have forgotten there was a load in the washer and I didn't discover it for several days. When that happens, the dark mildew stains are really hard to wash out without bleach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything you eat has mold spores on it. They are floating in the air and you take them in with every breath. They are in your drinking water. They have no effect on a person with a normal immune system.

When you say "clothes with mildew", do you mean clothes that were left wet and never washed? Or are you talking about mildew stains that remain after going through the washer? While neither would make a healthy person sick, it's a little gross if the clothes were never washed. If the clothes are clean and it's just a stain, then... it's just a stain.

We're exposed to mold every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything you eat has mold spores on it. They are floating in the air and you take them in with every breath. They are in your drinking water. They have no effect on a person with a normal immune system.

When you say "clothes with mildew", do you mean clothes that were left wet and never washed? Or are you talking about mildew stains that remain after going through the washer? While neither would make a healthy person sick, it's a little gross if the clothes were never washed. If the clothes are clean and it's just a stain, then... it's just a stain.

We're exposed to mold every day?

Every second of every day. There are thousands of different kind of molds and all but a few rare types are harmless to us. This is why mold will always form on things that are left wet too long. The source of that mold is from spores in the air. Our world is not sterile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything you eat has mold spores on it. They are floating in the air and you take them in with every breath. They are in your drinking water. They have no effect on a person with a normal immune system.

When you say "clothes with mildew", do you mean clothes that were left wet and never washed? Or are you talking about mildew stains that remain after going through the washer? While neither would make a healthy person sick, it's a little gross if the clothes were never washed. If the clothes are clean and it's just a stain, then... it's just a stain.

We're exposed to mold every day?

Of course we are. Not the toxic black mold you may be thinking of, but many, many other kinds.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, PPs! That's interesting.