Next time you take a breath stop and ask yourself what you've just breathed into your body. The air around you may contain harmful spores, toxic mold, bacteria and gasses.

Mold can invade ventilation systems, basements and attics as well as surrounding walls and foundations. Certain molds may not only cause illnesses, but cause structural damage as well. Mold strains pose many health concerns from allergic reactions to mycotoxin poisoning to severe eye and respiratory infections. Others cause infection of the mucus
membranes of the respiratory tract and can cause fever, cough, wheezing, and shortness of breath, chest pains and coughing up blood. In severe cases, other mold species produce toxins that may cause liver dysfunction, kidney dysfunction, respiratory inflammation, and immune system suppression and possible infertility.

Carbon monoxide contamination may result from improperly vented or faulty space heaters, furnaces, clothes dryers, wood-burning stoves and propane fueled equipment. Dangerous exposure to carbon monoxide may also be found in areas around automobiles or other gas or diesel powered equipment. Carbon monoxide poisoning causes lightheadedness, headaches, nausea, confusion, loss of consciousness and eventually death from respiratory arrest.

CSE tests for biological contaminants in the air. Our analysts sample the air
for harmful environmental hazards.

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