Kristen Van Gilse (Organimama)

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681 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Jan

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

But as I'm like on WebMD Googling things, looking up like baby acne and baby eczema, it was clear that this was more than just the normal thing.

skin adjusting to the outside environment.

Like she was very, very reactive.

And then she started having serious reactions to all kinds of foods through my breast milk as I was nursing her.

And we couldn't figure out why is she so reactive to all of these foods?

I had to cut gluten, dairy, soy, egg, nuts, oats, because she would just break out in hives or horrible rashes when I would ingest those things and then nurse her.

What were the doctors telling you?

And what did that make you feel like as a mom?

Well, we only really saw an allergist and we also had a holistic nurse practitioner that we saw, but I was already holistically minded enough at that time that we weren't seeing like a pediatrician.

And my husband was in medical school, so he had a decent amount of knowledge at the time.

And I think both of us, when we kind of put our brains together, we're like, there's more going on here than just normal baby stuff.

And our nurse practitioner, when I first mentioned, like, maybe it's an environmental thing.

I wonder if we maybe have mold.

She was like, I don't know a lot about that, but you definitely could be onto something there.

Because we weren't really interacting with a pediatrician, not really from the medical community, but by our friends, there definitely was some of that.

Yeah.

And especially once I started questioning if we had mold in our home and I started doing a lot of deep dives into what that could mean and what the result of that might be for us.

I don't want to say all, but a lot of the people that were close to us had a lot of skepticism about how mold could really be causing that much of a problem when our house looked normal.

There were all kinds of things going on with both of us that we did not realize until we had left that home.

So my husband was having chronic migraines, which he just assumed that was due to him being in med school and studying all the time and not sleeping a whole lot.

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