Replied by Brandy (Kelowna, BC Canada) on 04/30/2009
Hi, I am a mom of seven. We had flu like symptoms for a few years from living in a house/trailer with too much fermaldahyde (sp?). It was a low level poisoning. The fermaldahyde was prominent in the glue that was used in particle board throughout the trailer part of our home, which had an addition built onto it that wasn't so toxic. Portable trailers are notorious for using fermaldahyde glue, also some older insulation used it. Perhaps your son attends school in a portable building? In our case, the younger the person, the more pronounced the symptoms. Our 18 month son had fever, sore throat and sometimes vomitting. We all had similar symtoms, minus the fever. Our symptoms were less in the summer when we spent more time outside. We eventually moved, but our naturalpath had a similar situation with his baby daughter and he opted to replace all items built with fermaldyhide in his trailer/home.
