What if it’s not just in your imagination…..
If you suspect your home could have mold, or if you feel your work or prior home had mold and you may be experiencing mold/mycotoxin illness you have come to the right place. With professional and personal experiences, Lara can provide helpful insight, wisdom and encouragement as you navigate dealing with mold. She has seen first hand how mold and mycotoxins can impact your health in a negative way, how beneficial clean air can be as well as the importance of a thorough and detailed mold detox.
Here are just some of the most common signs and symptoms people can experience when living in mold or dealing with mold/mycotoxin illness:
Brain fog or memory loss
Trouble with word recollection
Fatigue
Feeling overwhelmed or anxious over little things
Frequent yawning or sighing
Headaches or migraines
Dark circle under eyes
Sensitivity to sunlight
Frequent static shocks
Metallic taste
Sudden change in vision or blurred vision
Eye irritation or red eyes
Ringing in ears
Sudden onset of environmental allergies
Eczema or rashes or hives
Joint or nerve pain
Vertigo
Diagnosis of MCAS or CIRS
Epstein Barr Virus
Clearing your through often
Irritation or burning lungs
Constant cough
Shortness of breath
Sore throats
Frequent colds, sinus infections, throat infections
Constant nasal drip
Diarrhea
Vomiting
IBS
Nausea
Frequent urination or bed wetting in older children
Changes in menstrual cycles or hormones of thyroid
Mold Resources:
Where to start?
Testing your home is one of the first steps in figuring out if mold if effecting your health.
The US Environmental Protection Authority developed ERMI to provide a straightforward, objective, sensitive and standardized way to assess mold and indoor air quality investigations. The USEPA developed the ERMI as a ranking system based on dust samples collected from homes, the ERMI will help predict the moldiness of homes.
The ERMI is a “swiffer type” cloth where you will collect 10 different dust samples from your home to determine the severity of overall mold from the 30 most common molds from water damage.
This tests also includes a HERTSMI-2 to go along with it, which tests the five most toxic molds for human health.
You will then mail in the cloth, and you can determine the turn around time. The 5 day turnaround time on this test will cost $240. If you want a faster turn around time the cost will be more.
This again gives a good starting point for the overall moldiness of your home, but it won’t show you where the mold areas are.
To find hidden mold and the source of mold and water damage you will want to hire a mold dog or a good quality mold inspector/assessor to help pinpoint the location of mold and hep write up a mold remediation protocol.
Send an email to Lara@narrowpathfamilywellness.com if you are local to DFW for best mold companies.
Home Testing:
Tests for your body:
If many of the above signs and symptoms sound like you, than one easy, affordable and effective test you can take from the comfort of your own home to help determine if you have mold illness or signs of CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome)
The Shoemaker Protocol™ Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test (VCS). This is online screening system is relied upon by certified Shoemaker Protocol™ Practitioners & Partners, patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers all around the world. It will provide valuable information to guide your recovery journey. The screening offers a symptom assessment that can help you determine if you might be suffering from Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome or Mold/Biotoxin illness.
This assessment is convenient (you can test at home), affordable (One VCS test is $15, while 10 tests are $75.) reliable and 92% accurate, and you receive your results in minutes. The VCS test is a measure of one the neurologic functions of vision known as “contrast.” Biotoxins impair the ability to detect subtle contrast within 24-36 hours after exposure. The Shoemaker Protocol™ VCS testing system is an extremely valuable tool to detect and monitor exposure to toxic environments for individuals with CIRS.
If you fail one or both eyes than it likely means you are or have been exposed to mold/mycotoxins or other biotoxins and your body is experiencing biotoxin/mycotoxin illness or CIRS and needs to detox.
Our family all took this test when we first suspected we all had mold illness. We all failed, but have used this same test to monitor our detox and healing process. This VCS test is easy and super affordable to test our progress than other testing.
If you fail the VCS test or get your ERMI results back and need help figuring out what to do, and what the next steps for your family should be… Click below to see some of my services or book a FREE consultation with me and we can see which service is best for you or your family.
I can also order an mycotoxin urine test or blood or lab work as well.
Basic Mold Detox Package
Detox and heal from mold in body, mind & soul with 1 on 1 guidance and detailed suggestions and protocols from a Biblical approach.
In this package you will receive:
1 - 60 minute initial consultation
2 -30 minute check in support calls
2 email check ins between zoom call
Help reading and interpreting up to 2 tests/labs
Help ordering any tests that are best and most efficient for your family/home
Lifestyle guides
Food guides
Supplement recommendations
Home cleaning guides
Prayer and support from someone who is trained with adults and children and been through mold personally
Hope and healing
Premium Mold Detox Package
All of the above except geared towards an entire family.
Weekly check ins with email or voice memo
Total of 6 zoom calls
Unlimited access to messages, and questions via Practice Better Portal
Testimonial from a pregnant Mom of 4 who went through Mold Detox with Lara…
“When I first started my mold treatment with Lara, I was having all sorts of issues, chest pain, random pains all over, muscles spasms and twitching, joint pain and excessive cracking, anxiety and heart palpitations, my 3 kids were getting sick almost every other week, and I was desperately searching for answers as I knew this was not our “normal” Lara helped me start protocols and detoxing that helped TREMENDOUSLY with my symptoms, she helped explain my test results, gave encouragement and prayers and cleaning protocols, I knew it was a God thing that I happened to come across her on social media. I desperately needed help navigating and figuring out what to do next. We ultimately got out of our lease early and moved to a house and we’ve been getting better and better. My kids don’t get sick nearly as often and my symptoms have gone away for the most part! It’s a long journey but I’m so thankful for Lara and all she’s done for me and my family. I 100% recommend hiring her if you’re facing confusion and need help with mold symptoms. ” - Ellen D.
Free home cleaning guide
I created a 12 page home and health guide to give some helpful resources and suggestions of signs to look for, cleaning products, helpful and handy gadgets and products for your home. This is not an extensive list but its a good starting point.
NORTH TEXAS RECCOMENDATIONS FOR YOUR HOME
If you are local and in the North Texas area please reach out to get recommendations and referrals for mold dog, mold inspection, and mold/water damage remediation companies.
Email: Lara@narrowpathfamilywellness.com