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userwords
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Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house
#17148610 - 11/02/12 02:59 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ive read rr talking about breathe apparatus and respirators specially when growing oysters. I have some allergies and ask myself if a full mask to protect eyes also is enough. One like this:
3m full mask 6800
And which kind of filters should i get.
Also im not sure if with breathing apparatus rr was talking about some expensive autonomous breathing system, or just a filter mask like that 3m.
And finally should i be worried about those spores getting piled up on the growing room, or moving them around when cleaning with a wet mop.
Do they degrade fast or they can become a permanent danger in your house.
Would it be a good idea to drive ventilation exhaust through a windows so spores moved by the exhaust end out of house.
Am i overreacting? XD
Give me some hints anyway please.
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FunnyFungi
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: userwords]
#17148621 - 11/02/12 03:03 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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i think the mask is for the spores protection lol. So nothing comes from your mouth and lands on anything you're working with
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FunnyFungi
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: FunnyFungi]
#17148625 - 11/02/12 03:04 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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for sterile reasons
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userwords
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: FunnyFungi]
#17148925 - 11/02/12 04:03 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well that was wht i first thought until i read this from rr:
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True. For some people, the spores are just an irritation, but for others they can be really bad.
For example, I can no longer grow Elm Oysters indoors due to a massive spore release one time when I already had the flu and felt too shitty to harvest the fruits that were ready to pick in my mini-greenhouse, located in my bedroom. They filled the room with spores and I nearly died. . .seriously. I tried growing them a year later, and when the very first substrate block fruited and dropped a few spores, I was unable to get my lungs to even take in a breath when I was in that room. Mrs Rabbit had to get them out and clean out the greenhouse for me, and throw away ten or more substrate blocks that were just beginning to pin.
Cube spores mostly just make a mess, but I can see if one developed an allergy to them, it would be bad. People with AIDS or other immune system diseases should avoid exposure completely. Trichoderma has definitely been found growing in people's lungs, along with a few other species. RR
Wood dust is bad, and when you keep reading any dust is not good, and spores are like hard wood dust i suppose so thats why i ask.
Wood workers get increase nose cancer risk because breathing wood dust. Because the small pieces of wood damage cells dna splicing it like a knife as far as i understand, or maybe cause they force them to repair themselves continuously until dna get damaged or something.
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Lennybernadino
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: userwords]
#17172340 - 11/06/12 12:31 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Oyster mushrooms produce huge amounts of spores wich can cause allergenic responses, and mask have to be used in areas where Oyster mushrooms are being produced. And do not grow oyster mushrooms in teh house you live in, unless it is perhaps in a place wich is isolated arially from teh rest of teh house.
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RogerRabbit
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: Lennybernadino]
#17172397 - 11/06/12 12:39 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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For people with a healthy immune system, only spores from the 'oyster' complex of mushrooms such as P ostreatus or H ulmarius seem to be a problem, with the allergy taking a few years to develop. If you're growing oysters, get a respirator or at least a dust mask to protect yourself before the allergy develops.
If you're only growing other species, get a surgical mask, not dust mask, for use when doing sterile work to protect the media from your own breath. RR
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: RogerRabbit]
#17200516 - 11/11/12 11:00 AM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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It can be used for both reason. Like every one says it depends what your growing but I have hear of shrooms fucking with peoples allergies be for.
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: Tsukasa]
#17215625 - 11/13/12 09:39 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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and don't forget guys, all these things are naturally in the air to. life is everywhere
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Re: Is a full mask enough to protect you from spores, can spores be a danger in your house [Re: userwords]
#17368895 - 12/10/12 04:37 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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If you have an allergic reaction to molds, then you probably shouldn't be growing them indoors in the first place. The oysters seem to be the main culprit so if its a big problem I'd find another type. A big help would be an ozone generator and a slow hepa. You can run the ozone generator in the room and it will collect and drop the airborne particles in the room. Then you'd just have to mop and air out the room (window) each day and afterwards run the hepa an hour or so before opening your containers, to purify the new air. This is provided you are not using carpeted floors.
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