I-Team: Mold Patient: "We Had No Mold"
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2016
- By: Randy Travis
Aired: May 17 2016
GAINESVILLE, Ga. -
Her family moved into a new home. A few months later her hair began falling out.
Coincidence? According to a Gainesville woman's complaint to the state medical board, a self-proclaimed international mold expert wrongly blamed her illness... on her house. A man known as the Mold Doctor.
The title "Doctor" is what multiple patients and former employees tell state investigators Michael Pugliese liked to call himself. He says he's got an alternative health doctorate but never calls himself a doctor. He's connected to a collection of Georgia mold clinics and testing labs that people like Jenny Wright found on the internet.
"It could have been a coincidence," she remembered thinking, talking to the FOX 5 I-Team with a scarf covering her head. "We moved in here in October, 2012. My hair started to fall out in December."
The questions would come in bursts of panic. What was suddenly making Jenny Wright so sick? Her doctors thought it might be a hypoactive thyroid. But last year, Jenny took to the web and found Michael Pugliese offering another possibility. Mold in her house.
"It made me wonder," Jenny admitted. "Not that I've ever seen it, not that it smelled moldy or was dirty in any way."
She and her family of four visited the National Treatment Centers for Environmental Disease in Alpharetta, all submitting samples to Biotrek Laboratories at a total out of pocket cost of a thousand bucks. Husband Jeremy skeptical, but supportive.
"I didn't want to be the reason she wasn't better," Jeremy remembered.
All four urine test results would come back exactly the same. Positive for mold.
"Really?" Jenny recalled. "And I started looking at my husband saying oh my goodness. We've got mold! I'm panicky."
"I thought all this time, I've been wrong," Jeremy admitted. "Here I am, I'm the reason why my wife might not be better."
According to her medical board complaint, Pugliese urged Jenny to get out of the house, throw away all their belongings, and start taking special minerals to help flush all those toxins from her body.
But multiple former employees told the FOX 5 I-Team patients did not get what they thought what they were paying for. One told us those urine mold tests always came back positive. While the federal government did license the Biotrek Lab itself, the Centers for Disease Control calls those kind of urine mold tests conducted there "inappropriate" and "unvalidated."
And as for those special Pugliese minerals, one employee shot video of himself packing the liquids without any gloves or mask, the whole time sitting in the laundry room of an old Gainesville house.
"Making solutions in a laundry room. That should be done under a chemical hood, under sterile conditions," remarked California toxicologist Dr. Jack Thrasher. He has developed a national reputation in mold toxicity research. He told the FOX 5 I-Team he's never been to Pugliese's clinic and has nothing to do with him.
But Jenny Wright told medical board investigators she assumed the nationally-recognized Thrasher was part of Pugliese's operation.
"It said Dr. Jack Thrasher on the back door," she recalled. "We never met a Dr. Jack Thrasher. No one ever opened the door."
"I don't think it was an accident," Dr. Thrasher insisted. "I think it was deliberate. He was using my name to make him look good."
Pugliese's attorney would not respond for comment.
She says Pugliese told her to hire an unrelated company to come out and test the air inside. She did. The test came back normal. According to her complaint, Pugliese told her that company did the wrong test. So the Wrights paid for a second home air test. That one reached the same result. Normal.
"We were going to lose our home," Jenny stressed. "Lose all of our furniture. All of our belongings. WE HAD NO MOLD."
Nearly four years after moving into the house they love, only Jenny is sick. She's been diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, an ailment of the thyroid that her doctor told her has nothing to do with mold.
According to her complaint to the medical board, when Jenny tried to ask Pugliese more questions, he told her she had to spend more money: to buy a book that had all the answers. His book. The Homeowner's Guide to Mold.
She says insurance covered most of the cost of their encounter with Biotrek and the National Treatment Centers, but the Wright family is still out of pocket more than three thousand dollars.
Still, Jenny's more worried about others like her who may also go online, trying to solve the mystery of why they're so sick.
"They're desperate," she insisted. "I was. They're having their heart broken. And they're not getting any better."
The easiest way to tell if you are mold sick is to leave your environment. Take nothing with you...go on a week or 2 vacation, see if your symptoms improve...come back & if you were in a clear enough environment...you'll sense the mold & of course your symptoms will return. Not everything is mold...but it definitely is a bigger issue than many know or understand. You definitely don't need all the fancy meds & treatments though. Some CAN be helpful...however, getting out & getting yourself out of mold(can't cross contaminate) is the biggest & best way to get better from mold.
not really, all it means is you left a place your mind considered a danger, is all in your psychological and psychosomatic, mold disease is not real and is not recognized by any medical community in the world as a real disease
@@naegleriafowleri2230 🤣🤣🤣
Ya good luck with such an A hole. You'll see.
OZONE Shock will do it.
unless your vacation spot..it also moldy.
@@Jennifer-gr7hn both my house, vacation spot and cottage has mold.. cant escape it ugh
It was mold. She will find out later.
SAD TRUTH is that she could still HAVE mold in her house or other toxins from toxic flooring, drywall, previous owners manufacturing drugs in the house or neighbors currently, toxic insulation, exhaust pollution from a nearby road, EMF pollution from a nearby cell tower, etc etc. If you move into a home and begin to lose health, ALWAYS listen to your body and question your new environment. Women are more sensitive to chemicals than men, especially mature women. I wish she could leave the house and try a new environment for some time to see how she feels. God bless her and her family.
Your a whackjob
This story is so filled with half truths it’s aggravating. As someone going through an actual mold problem from a water damage event, I see so many things that fell through the cracks in this story. First, don’t do urine tests. They will be positive for everyone because mold is everywhere and *should* be coming out in your urine as a sign of healthy detox. (In fact, sidebar, mine came back full negative which actually showed I was so unhealthy I wasn’t detoxing.) Do the blood antibody test from mymycolab. I’m not saying she for sure has mold, but knowing how it all works and how this guy scammed her, she very well could still have a mold problem and sadly is now so convinced otherwise. Hypothyroid is not normal. Ever. Something else is causing that, maybe it’s mold, maybe not. But something is interfering with her body. We have become indoctrinated with a false understanding of what is normal.
Also, air tests in homes do not work unless they are cavity samples. You won’t find many spores just in the air, they’re going to be on surfaces and near the source. Mold Finders Radio podcast has great info and experiments on this.
I could go on.
At the end of the day mold has so much information around it so I don’t blame her being upset with this guy just stringing them along. And now they might be totally closed off to something that they still need to look into, maybe maybe not, and that’s my point: it’s not correctly ruled out, therefore it’s inconclusive. And then this news thing is making it seem like all mold scares are nothing to dig into. From my experience, I wish that were the case. Misinformation is deadly and it’s frustrating when false methods saturate and overshadow the right way about something. I’m so sorry for this family and the stress this has caused them.
100% this is to like paint the fact mold isnt an issue but it is!!
What’s your response to HDM causation of CIRS? Same environment: CIRS practitioners are a joke. Labs a joke. Sure way to stay sick and lose a toxic tort case.
Definitely losing the home now
Thank you for the warning regarding Michael Puglisi and BioTrek Labs. I plan to look into possible mold toxicity and won’t be putting my trust in this man or his company!
She looks very sick. Why didn't she try moving out of the house for a week or two (just her) to see if her symptoms would ease?
It's not this simple. Don't believe this nonsense. You have to use the ERMI or HERTSMI-2 tests to check if your house has a mold issue or not, and it could also be actinomycetes or endotoxins which should also be tested. Do not use petri dishes, spore traps, or other antiquated testing methods.
There's no such thing as "no mold". Mold spores are everywhere, it's a matter if what type of spores and how many. Use an ERMI test and see if you have dangerous mold types and if there is an abnormal level or not.
Magnesium citrate is a laxative. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Bless her heart ❤️. She should have went to a doctor first.
Dozens of doctors missed mine!
This seems like an anti mold propaganda 😂
Why wouldn’t you go to the Doctor first?
My Dr is clueless
@@blazeit505i totally agree
I feel sorry for people that believe FOX 5
Seems well researched to me. Which point exactly do you have an issue with?
U have no idea what mold is