Molds are tiny fungi whose spores float through the air. They like dark, damp, warm environments and need four things to grow: food, air, warm environment and water. Molds can be found outdoors, in homes and in other buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone breathes in mold spores in the air, but some people have an allergic reaction <\/a>or asthma<\/a> symptoms if exposed to too much of this fungus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are allergic to mold, your immune system is overly-sensitive to specific mold spores and treats them as an allergen<\/a>. When you inhale the mold spores, your immune system<\/a> triggers symptoms such as sneezing, itchy, watery eyes, runny nose, nasal congestion or itchy nose, mouth and lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are hundreds of types of molds, but not all of them are responsible for causing allergy symptoms. The most common allergy-causing molds include Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cladosporium and Penicillium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mold Allergy Overview Molds are tiny fungi whose spores float through the air. They like dark, damp, warm environments and need four things to grow: food, air, warm environment and water. Molds can be found outdoors, in homes and in other buildings. Everyone breathes in mold spores in the air, but some people have an allergic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}