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Hydrogen Peroxide Gargling & Nasal Rinses May Prevent Viral Infection
https://www.georgekramermd.com/hydrogen-peroxide-gargling-nasal-rinses-may-prevent-viral-infection/
The following link is from early September from a hospital in Ghana, which is an extremely poor country where they have no money for PPEs etc. The hospital workers caring for COVID patients gargled 3 times a day with dilute hydrogen peroxide, and none of them got COVID. Seems too simple and too cheap of a prevention, sadly not promoted by our media. (See excerpt of Ghana report below.)
To read the whole orthomolecular news bulletin: “COVID-19 Efficient Protection of Contacts is Simpler than Imagined”
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n46.shtml
The virus tends to live in the nasopharynx for 10 days before causing respiratory problems and extreme inflammation. Hydrogen peroxide kills the virus nearly on contact.
You can read another article from Penn State College of Medicine: “Mouthwashes, oral rinses may inactivate human coronaviruses.”
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/mouthwashes-oral-rinses-may-inactivate-human-coronaviruses/
This article confirms that the viruses are inactivated by mouthwashes, nasal rinses, and hydrogen peroxide on contact or in less than 30 seconds.
This is a quite simple and cheap prevention that anyone can do. I have been gargling with food grade 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to ward off sore throats and colds for many years. (It also can whiten your teeth.) You can find food grade hydrogen peroxide at any natural food store, co-op, Whole Foods etc. or online.
The Ghana Hospital used 1.5%, so you could dilute 3% hydrogen peroxide with distilled water 50-50 and make it go farther or use the 3%. Do not swallow. Just gargle for 30-60 seconds or more and spit out.
Nasal rinses: I have been using nasal rinses once a day for a long time, and haven't had a sinus infection for many years. I use Xlear brand because it contains xylitol, which kills fungi as well as other bacteria. Neilmed is another brand of saline rinse. Each can be bought with a kit including a squeeze bottle to rinse the nose.
These are remarkably simple techniques to keep you healthy and more evidence is making it clear that the simple techniques can help prevent catching COVID. You can use this technique to help especially if you are around family members or friends who have it or if you have been exposed. Gargling with hydrogen peroxide 3 times a day has shown to be preventive in hospital workers taking care of COVID patients.
Here is an excerpt from another article about vitamin C used for prevention and includes suggestions if you get sick.
“High-dose Vitamin C Cuts COVID Deaths by Two-Thirds”
Orthomolecular news article: Where Does Hydrogen Peroxide come in?
Dilute hydrogen peroxide can help to destroy invading viruses, bacteria and fungi. We have suggested deployment of hydrogen peroxide as an oral cleansing agent to destroy the virus. None of our clinical research team members and their relatives, protecting themselves only with face masks while caring for COVID-19 patients, who used hydrogen peroxide, have had symptoms suggestive of the disease. At the Shai Osudoku District Hospital in Dodowa, seven members of staff with minimal protective clothing who cared for a COVID-19 patient and who used hydrogen peroxide mouthwash, did not contract the disease. Previously, 27 other staff at that hospital had become infected caring for COVID-19 patients. Dr Richard Cheng's success with Vitamin C is published and known to the WHO, NIH, and CDC . To augment the effect of vitamin C, we use nasal drops containing 0.5% hydrogen peroxide and reduce the risk of infecting healthcare workers.
Vitamin C and COVID prevention and treatment article excerpt:
But even better is to prevent a person ever getting into this critical phase of COVID-19. That's why early intervention, taking 1,000 mg of vitamin C an hour upon first signs of infection, is likely to save even more lives. This reduces duration and severity of symptoms, with most people becoming symptom-free within 24 hours. It takes on average, two weeks of being sick with COVID-19 to trigger the ‘cytokine storm' phase. During that time, the patient is at risk of becoming vitamin C deficient and then developing acute “induced scurvy.” If you can beat the infection within 48-hours you'll be out of the woods. You can lower your risk even further by taking vitamin D (5000 IU/d, or more: 20,000 IU/d for several days if you already have symptoms), magnesium (400 mg/d in malate, citrate, or chloride form), and zinc (20 mg/d) Prevention is better than cure.
You can see previous Prolonews Newsletters for immune boosting supplements and other prevention and treatments that are effective.
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I have also used it more intensively to help with detoxing (longer sessions 4 times a day), and on the 2nd or 3rd day experienced an intense Herxheimer reaction immediately after, which proved beyond a doubt the effectiveness of this therapy.
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"Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2021; 2021: 5592042.
Published online 2021 Jul 3. doi: 10.1155/2021/5592042
Hydrogen Peroxide as an Adjuvant Therapy for COVID-19: A Case Series of Patients and Caregivers in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
Abstract
Knowledge of the antiseptic effects of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dates back to the late 19th century, and its mechanisms of action has been amply described. Globally, many physicians have reported using H2O2 successfully, in different modalities, against COVID-19. Given its anti-infective and oxygenating properties, hydrogen peroxide may offer prophylactic and therapeutic applications for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We report a consecutive case series of twenty-three COVID-19 patients (of 36 initially enrolled) who had been diagnosed by their primary care physician (mean age: 39, range: 8 months–70 years; 74% male) and twenty-eight caregivers in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area who received a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) telemedicine treatment with H2O2 taken by mouth (PO, at a concentration of 0.06%), oral rinse (mouthwash, 1.5%), and/or nebulization (0.2%). We describe the treatment program and report the response of the COVID-19 patients and their caregivers. The patients mainly recovered well, reporting feeling “completely better” at 9.5 days on average. Two (9%) were hospitalized prior to joining the study, and one did not fully recover. Patients frequently reported nausea and sometimes dizziness or vomiting related to the oral treatment. None of the twenty-eight caregivers in close contact with the patients reported contracting COVID-19. Given its low cost and medical potential and considering its relative safety if used properly, we suggest that randomized controlled trials should be conducted. These should include both SARS-CoV-2-positive and SARS-CoV-2-negative participants, with single or combined modes of administration of H2O2, to study the benefits of this simple molecule and offer safe guidance regarding its use by health professionals.
1. Introduction
A case series is described on twenty-three ambulatory patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) and monitored by telemedicine, using an adjuvant therapy of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), administered PO (per orem), by mouth rinses (oral gargles), and by inhalation routes. We report the clinical outcomes of the consecutive COVID-19 patients and their caregivers, who were treated by our medical team between May 11 and July 19,2020.
Among other things, the team conducted a nonexhaustive review of the scientific literature to identify possible therapeutic and prophylactic alternatives. This review was supplemented by literature from the complementary, traditional, and integrative medicine fields. Our aim was to identify nonstandard therapeutic alternatives for treating viral infections, such as COVID-19, that could be easily and cheaply attained in Mexico over the counter and aid in the primary health response to the pandemic. With these requisites in mind, we identified this clinically useful molecule, hydrogen peroxide.
Dating back to 1888, Love et al. reported the use of hydrogen peroxide as an anti-infectious agent and described it as effective in treating numerous diseases including scarlet fever, diphtheria, runny nose, coryza, whooping cough, asthma, hay fever, and tonsillitis [1]. Specifically for viral diseases that attack the respiratory system, the first reported medical success using hydrogen peroxide therapy dates back exactly 100 years, when doctors Oliver and Murphy reported in The Lancet how they had successfully applied intravenous hydrogen peroxide to treat a group of patients with influenza; they reduced by half the mortality among this group of patients, which consisted of troops from the Indian army during the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic in the Mesopotamian valley [2].
Although the use of hydrogen peroxide therapeutically has generated great controversy in alternative medicine [3], this ubiquitous molecule is not just one of the many components that help regulate the amount of oxygen that reaches cells, but its presence is vital for a variety of other functions of the body. Many positive effects of hydrogen peroxide on the immune system response have been described, including the stimulation of monocytes and T-helper cells which help fight infections, the increased production of interferon-gamma, which has a role in immunoregulation, and the effect of decreasing the activity of B cells, which have a role in up-regulating the inflammatory response [4].
Known in medical terms as oxidative therapy or bio-oxidative therapy, hydrogen peroxide is a simple, well-studied, and useful molecule for a range of medical and sanitary applications. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) contains one more atom of oxygen than water (H2O) and is naturally produced in the human organism as a by-product of oxygen metabolism. It is metabolized by enzymes known as peroxidases and catalases, which decompose low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide into water and a free oxygen ion. “Hydrogen peroxide appears to be a ubiquitous molecule. We exhale it, excrete it and take it in from diet” [4]. It is produced endogenously for many functions of living organisms, and there is an abundance of scientific knowledge on this molecule, with sufficient documentation on its uses for sanitation, sterilization, and, importantly, diverse therapeutic modalities.
Given that the H2O2 molecule decomposes into water (H2O) and oxygen (O−), in appropriate doses, it is relatively safe for animal and human uses, as well as relatively nontoxic. In the late 1980s, Farr reported that hydrogen peroxide offers therapeutic benefits by directly destroying microorganisms through dual oxidative and oxygenating actions, caused by the released oxygen molecules [5, 6]. In more recent times, hydrogen peroxide has been widely hailed for use in the so-called “oxygenation therapy” in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), several types of cancer, heart and blood vessel diseases, immune disorders, infectious or pulmonary diseases, and many other ailments and conditions......
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Unfortunately, the level is is too small to stop a viral infection like Covid 19 taking hold and overwhelming the lungs and respiratory system
Using 2% - food grade ONLY - in an ultrasonic nebuliser - 10ml - last thing before bed EVERY night will kill ALL viral particles in the entire respiratory tract.
Most importantly it penetrates the alveoli where oxygen/CO2 exchange takes place.
In addition to killing all the covid particles the H2O2 stimulates the immune system to generate large quantities of T cells and other neutrophils that mop up any infected tissue to prevent covid replication.
I have been using this every day since the January 2020 pandemic broke because I knew what was coming from my researches into SARS-1 and MERS.
2% H2O2 is totally safe but if you are concerned even 1 or 1.5% will work but inhalation needs to be longer. With 2% it only needs about 8 minutes inhalation.
Under NO circumstances use commercial grade H2O2 as it has undeclared toxic stabilizers mixed in to maintain long term warehouse storage.
Food Grade is very unstable and needs to be kept in small PET bottles with no air headspace. Not a problem as lots of small bottles are PET and PET stops air and oxygen reaching the H2O2 to degrade it.
I have been tested 5 times for Covid and come up negative BUT have tested with high antibody count.
This means that although I have stopped any dangerous infection taking hold I have indeed inhaled the virus and my immune system was able to produce antibodies in response to the presence of covid virus before I killed it every day.
