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[AbstractTraitorHero]

There is this relatively blackish Fungus inside my window and I'm getting worried that it's setting off allergies and ruining my day it just showed up a few months ago near Christmas but i think it's finally messing with me now....since I am at school I do not have a picture right now.

[MidnightJaguar]

napalm. 

But seriously, if your that worried about it, you should probably get an allergy test.

[TheBiggerFish]

And a fungicide.

[Starver]

(Ninjaed*2)

There is this relatively blackish Fungus inside my window and I'm getting worried that it's setting off allergies and ruining my day it just showed up a few months ago near Christmas but i think it's finally messing with me now....since I am at school I do not have a picture right now.

Visible fungus is (generally) the fruiting body of the fungus system that is hidden away inside the thing it is 'growing on', in this case what I assume is the wooden window-frame/sill, if not the wall of the building itself.

It's entirely possible that the spores the visible fungus is letting off might be causing you problems.  Or it could just be that you're suffering from the conditions under which a fungus is growing in your window/window-frame/wall/house.  Or you're just suffering from something else less visible.

Aside from going off to someone local for expert medical advice (for yourself) or construction advice (for whatever 'rot' might be in your house), I suspect a photo of what you have might well be useful for any actual armchair mycologists (I'm not one) around here to give at least a tentative ID and suggest at least partially how much/little of a problem your 'growth' might be.

(It could be a psychosomatic fungus!  Then your only hope is to get a prescription of strong placebos!)

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Hmmmm intresting when I get home at 3ish I'll try and get a picture.

[Orange Wizard]

Obvious solution is to get some abrasive cleaner and... y'know, clean it.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I've never cleaned a window in my life and I don't...know what counts as a abrasive cleaner...

[ChairmanPoo]

What does it taste like?

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Haven't checked yet.

[TheBiggerFish]

Haven't checked yet.

Don't eat it!

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I have no intention of doing so.

[ChairmanPoo]

Lick it you wuss! Lick it!

[nenjin]

Bleach, then soapy water. Buy a green scratch pad (Brillo Pads here in America.) Buy some plastic gloves if maybe touching it weirds you out. It just depends on how rotted the material its growing on is, how deep it might go. If you get the top layer off and the wood beneath is really discolored, you may have to scrub extra hard to kill it completely, or use a fungicide, or it may come back.

[Strife26]

Bleach, then soapy water. Buy a green scratch pad (Brillo Pads here in America.) Buy some plastic gloves if maybe touching it weirds you out. It just depends on how rotted the material its growing on is, how deep it might go. If you get the top layer off and the wood beneath is really discolored, you may have to scrub extra hard to kill it completely, or use a fungicide, or it may come back.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Thank you call for the suggestions took a few hours but it's dead and gone now.