Even if you take your asthma medications, dampness and mold could be lurking in your own home, threatening to undo all your best efforts. As the weather gets colder and houses get warmer, dampness can develop in your bathroom, kitchen, and under your carpets and wallpaper, providing the perfect conditions for mold.

“Mold will grow on anything that contains cellulose,” says James Sublett, M.D., chief of pediatric allergy and immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. In other words, wall board, wood, paper, cardboard, foam, rubber, clothing, leather — you name it, are susceptible to mold growth.

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