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Who Are You
Driving Around With?
Driving around with "Troika"? Troika refers to the deadly trio
of tropical and sub-tropical fungi that can grow in your automobile. It
multiplies quickly and easily. While you are getting into your motor
vehicle during rains, the vehicle carpet will get wet, this provide a
conducive environment for these fungi to grow and multiply. The
scientific names for the Troika are Aspergillus, Cladosporium and
Penicillium. Once the carpets are wet they will begin to grow and
multiply within approximately 24 hours and they can be deadly.
In US there were 5,000 recorded deaths from Cladosporium poisoning in
2007. Aspergillus and Penicillium are responsible for respiratory
problems and decreased lung capacity. They are responsible for eye
infections, ear, nose and throat infections and a host of other
debilitating medical conditions.
An automobile parked all day long in the tropical or sub-tropical which
temperature might reach up to +40C inside cabin. The automobile becomes
an incubation chamber for rapid fungal reproduction. Then, if you have
a chemical air freshener inside, those chemical fumes mix with the
living, growing toxic fungal. You get in the car, switch on the A/C
and direct the cool air to your face and body.
Cool air is not always clean air. These are not golf balls floating in
the air that you can see. Approximately 700,000 of these deadly fungal
spores can fit on a pinhead. So tiny yet so deadly. In a confined space
the toxic level can build quickly and dramatically.
In one hour of commuting, one would have
breathe more than 1,000 liters of air and unfortunately it's the air
trapped in your vehicle. Most of the time passengers do not associate
these conditions with their running nose, itchy eyes, sore throat but
it is definitely connected.
Researchers at University at Buffalo and
the Mayo Clinic have shown that chronic sinusitis is an immune disorder
caused by fungus and not bacteria.
Our body is one huge filtration system.
The larger fungi get trapped in our nasal passages leading to
sinusitis. The medium size ones get into our upper respiratory track
leading to throat infections. Those tiny, pesky spores get all the way
down into your lungs - dark, moist, made of living tissue and lots of
oxygen passing through.
Long term exposure at this stage leads to
Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. It reduces lung capacity. In extreme
cases, it can be fatal. Take precaution!
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