Home | Community | Message Board

MushroomCube.com
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   OlympusMyco.com Olympus Myco Bulk Substrate   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineShroomSavvy
◐ʎʌʌɐSɯooɹɥS
Registered: 05/29/21
Posts: 66
Loc: Towards The Mountains
Last seen: 2 months, 5 days
Theories? Aerosolized allergen from shrooms?
    #28612203 - 01/06/24 07:46 PM (4 months, 9 days ago)

Hi all! Hopefully this thread is allowed here. I'm not an expert but wanted to ask minds far more knowledgeable than mine, for advice/thoughts.

Short version question: I have MCAS and my body reacts to many things normal people wouldn't. I loaded up a food dehydrator with cubes (3-4oz dry), turned it on, and I had a horrible intense allergic-like reaction. Aside from mushroom spores, what else could I have reacted to?

My other thoughts is perhaps it was A) metabolites from the mushrooms I reacted to, from being aerosolized by the dehydrator; or B) perhaps there were heavy contams (mold spores/toxins) that hadn't quite visually presented yet, and they were coating some of the mushrooms, and I blasted those into the air.

I have something called MCAS, which can make someone react to just about anything, though. I was trying to think what else it could have been if not spores.

I have two good air purifiers; I stuck them in the "contaminated" rooms and after a few hours I could walk in without a reaction. But, whatever I spread through the air, it messed up my apartment for myself. It's going to take a while to fully remove all the mysterious allergens from the air and nooks and crannies. Friends came over and had 0 issues, this is just a "me" thing.

Thanks so much for reading, and considering!!


Info:
For 3+ years I've been getting more and more ill. Mold sensitivity issues are one part of my health puzzle. If I'm near a high enough density of mold spores or mycotoxins, I react quickly; I get a needle-like prickly intense itching across my forehead, GI issues next, and hours later I have chest tightness for at least half a day. I know I react this way to Aspergillus mold, specifically. If I leave the heavy spore/toxin area, the acute itching subsides within 3-10mins, depending on the severity of exposure.

I reacted that same way to my mushrooms dehydrating the other night. My first thought was mushroom spores caused my reaction, because one of my tubs sporulated before harvesting. Turning on my dehydrator would have blasted the spores (or whatever I reacted to) all over my bathroom (and the rooms connected to it, to a lesser degree).
This theory is further backed by multiple exposures to cube spores from past cultivation runs, 1-2yrs ago, where I let cubes sporulate sometimes, and I was fruiting in my bedroom. I know RogerRabbit mentioned his allergic development to a specific mushroom variety, and I know heavily-sporulating mushrooms (like gourmet Oysters) can cause perfectly healthy people to develop an allergy/sensitivity. Well, I slept in a room/apartment with a high spore count unknowingly.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineEclipse3130
Servant of the Fungi
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/06/13
Posts: 6,279
Loc: PNW
Last seen: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Re: Theories? Aerosolized allergen from shrooms? [Re: ShroomSavvy] * 1
    #28614598 - 01/08/24 09:57 PM (4 months, 6 days ago)

Most likely a reaction to the spores. A normal "healthy" individual can develop chest/lung reactions from working with heavy spore loads too frequently, a similar way breathing too much dust of any kind is not good.


--------------------
"In The Material World One seeks retirement and grows Old
In The Magical World One seeks Enlightenment and grows Wiser
In The Miraculous World One seeks nothing and grows Lighter
As we all tread the Homeward Path we will explore many Realms
And one day... we will all Realize that all experiences are Simply
Different ways in which The
All-That Is
Perceives Itself"

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleNillion
Nobody

Registered: 04/14/22
Posts: 1,002
Loc: Terra Firma
Re: Theories? Aerosolized allergen from shrooms? [Re: Eclipse3130] * 1
    #28617369 - 01/11/24 08:28 AM (4 months, 4 days ago)

Quote:

Eclipse3130 said:
Most likely a reaction to the spores. A normal "healthy" individual can develop chest/lung reactions from working with heavy spore loads too frequently, a similar way breathing too much dust of any kind is not good.



Agreed.

If the irritant was an aromatic molecule then air purifiers would have virtually no effect because they cannot typically remove molecules from air, just particulates beyond a certain size.

Spores are the most likely cause.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   OlympusMyco.com Olympus Myco Bulk Substrate   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Extracting Alkaloids From Shrooms mr_minds_eye 2,572 7 01/28/02 07:53 AM
by SumGuy
* Super potent shrooms, why argue?
( 1 2 all )
egghead 9,451 39 06/05/06 09:22 AM
by Wronguy
* Re: super potent shrooms are possible.
( 1 2 3 all )
Bleuboxo 9,406 43 09/04/03 02:35 PM
by pure999
* Post deleted by Moe Howard
( 1 2 3 4 all )
X.O 7,027 65 01/24/03 06:29 AM
by InMyVersion
* Re: Tryptophan & potency metabolic pathway theory Sclorch 2,602 10 05/30/00 12:39 PM
by Sclorch
* My shrooms grown on DMT-rich substrate. Dogomush 6,962 19 04/14/03 08:06 PM
by Catalysis
* 5-HTP and shrooms ionic 1,415 4 06/07/01 11:53 AM
by TripsAreForKids
* Theory that was inspired by B+
( 1 2 all )
ThorA 4,771 24 03/31/02 08:31 PM
by Mr. G

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: RogerRabbit, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta
135 topic views. 1 members, 2 guests and 3 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.02 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.