Is Your Home Making You Sick? The Symptom Map

A Commentary by Dr. Matt Everett, MD

As an emergency physician and mold specialist practicing in Katy, I’m trained to diagnose based on what I see and what I learn from the patient: the broken bone on an X-ray, the infection in bloodwork, the toxin in the blood.

But what happens when the symptoms are real, but the cause remains invisible?

The Subtle Start

It doesn’t always begin with a flood or a fungus-covered wall. It starts with a feeling — nasal stuffiness. Maybe a headache. A strange fatigue…or even an unexplained rash. As you will learn, the symptoms of a sick home are so widely varied that it can be hard to realize it’s your home that’s making you sick…

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