any advice for a serious pseudomonas infection?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

First off I'd eat lots of garlic and take garlic baths.

I'd look at taking astralagus/huang qi in fairly raw form

not with a westernized mix of other stuff.

 

I would also find a chinese herbal doctor for an opinion

and recommendations. I would ask about diet changes.

 

Kim wrote:

> ... I need both topical and

> systemic ideas for dealing with this,...

 

You should be re-examining your diet and the stressors in your life,

with the idea of reducing stress and relaxing any diet rigidities that

might be impairing recovery.

 

bye,

vic

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[Guest guest]

Kim,

 

For a topical, I would use tea tree oil (please read on it or anything you

try). You can buy concentrated bottles at Wal-Mart if you are in the US for

about $5 (health food stores were triple the price when I last looked). Put

a tablespoon or so in liquid soap mix or shampoo. There are also bars of

soap sold in health food stores with tea tree oil in them. There are body

lotions that contain it as well or you can add a tablespoon or so to any

lotion and apply it. Also add borax to your bath water, there are some

borax soaps sold in various forms but usually powder. You can scrub with it

as well.

 

Another thing to try is to pour a diluted pitcher of water with clorax over

yourself in the bathtub (about a cup of clorax to large pitcher) - just

rinse it off very well. Clorax works super for fungal rashes. It is toxic

as is the tea tree oil so you want to be careful and not use them in high

concentration but toxic means they kill living things including bacteria.

The tea tree oil is less so than the clorax.

 

Cod liver oil is very good for the immune system. Personally I would take

it but also would continue trying antibiotics if I was in your situation.

 

 

 

 

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" Kim " <kim

 

Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:34 AM

any advice for a serious pseudomonas

infection?

 

 

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>

> Hello everyone, I am really desperate for some alternative help for a

> serious pseudomonal skin infection that is not responding to allopathic

> treatment. I delayed a doctor visit for nearly a month hoping that some of

> the things i was doing ( vinegar compresses, ech/goldenseal, vitamin C)

> would help kick it, but it has just spread and worsened. And after 4 days

> on

> a very strong antibiotic, I see very little improvement. For anyone who

> does

> not know, pseudomonas is a bacteria that proliferates in spas, hot tubs,

> whirlpools, etc, and its nickname is " hot tub folliculitis " . Normally it

> does not cause too much of a problem, but for some reason I am having

> great

> difficulty with it, and it has continued to spread until I am literally

> head

> to toe with it, even though I have not been back into a jacuzzi for a long

> time. I have also been having mild flu-like symptoms that are hanging on

> as

> well....tender lymph nodes, head and body aches, etc. According to any

> literature I have read, it normally does not cause quite this much of a

> problem, so I don't know what is going on here. I need both topical and

> systemic ideas for dealing with this, if anyone has any, and would be most

> grateful for any advice or experience anyone can share.

> Thank you in advance for your time and expertise.

> Kim W.

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