“What causes random mold smells?”
My hubby has been having sudden strong mold smells for the past 3 months, just from out of nowhere. What could be the cause of that?
1 Answer
Sherri L. Clark
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Mental Health, Physical Health
DE
This is called Olfactory hallucinations, or Phantosmia. This could possibly represent a few different things, but he should get it checked out definitely and have a few tests run, especially since it's been going on for so long. This could be indicative of respiratory infection, inflammation of sinuses, possible temporal seizures (could be silent seizures); possible brain tumor;
There is also another disorder that comes from chronic respiratory infections that can distort the environmental odors as well, and damage the olfactory system.
There is also another disorder that comes from chronic respiratory infections that can distort the environmental odors as well, and damage the olfactory system.
