> Thank you for your very comprehensive post Mike and all the
> information in it.
Thanks for taking the time to read it.
> I have to say that my shingles have never been anything like as
> bad as those in the pictures you showed.
Those people were is a great deal of pain. My heart goes out to them
for their suffering. I managed to stop mine just as it was starting
to break out, but even that was painful enough.
> I just either get 'stabbing' pains on either set of ribs or under
> the fleshy part of my arms, or I get four or five small lesions on
> my face. These go when I apply 10ppm CS plus DMSO usually within a
> week or two or three weeks if I forget and don't apply the potion.
10ppm is not really strong enough to do the job. Also, the term
"ppm" refers to colloidal silver that contains a significant
proportion of silver hydroxide, AgOH. This is insoluble, inert, and
has no biological activity.
However, if you drink it, it converts to silver chloride and water
in the stomach. The equation is
AgOH + HCl --> AgCl + H2O
The silver chloride is soluble up to about 800 ppb (parts per
billion), after which it precipitates out as a white solid. It is
slightly antibiotic and can kill the friendly bacteria in the small
intestine.
If there is a large quantity of AgCl, this can make you very sick
since the bacteria are needed to aid in digestion. This gives
symptoms that are often attributed to Herxheimer. But true Herx is
not possible inside the body since the concentration of silver ions
that end up in the bloodstream is far too low to have any effect on
bacteria.
> It always happens when I am particularly stressed; like having
> this fall and thinking my arm was broken!
That can be very bad for people our age. Please be careful. Watch
where you are stepping and be careful of glare ice.
> I usually enjoy quite good health although I am overweight and
> don't exercise enough, neither do I eat particularly well. Its
> just that every once in a while, I get this bone tiredness which I
> can't explain ie I'm not doing anything different.
These are both typical symptoms of bedmold. There are many different
types of mold that inhabit the bedding and pillowcases. The toxins
on the spores can have all kinds of vague, ill-defined symptoms. One
symptom is it ruins your digestion system and bloats you up. This
happens to me often. Another symptom is extreme fatigue. It is so
bad you simply cannot function.
The solution is to kill the spores. But they are very difficult to
kill. There is no chemical or process available to us in the home
that will have the slightest effect on the spores.
However, high concentrations of ozone will strip the outer
protective coating and expose the core. This kills the spore, and
converts a lot of the toxins to simpler forms, such as carbon
dioxide and less harmful molecules.
The problem is getting a high enough concentration of ozone.
Humidity in the air and normal room temperatures reduce the
effectiveness of the corona in converting oxygen to ozone.
Commercial machines that use ordinary room air cannot produce a high
enough concentration. It takes pure, dried oxygen at low
temperatures to reach high concentration. The is very expensive. But
I think I may have found a way around this problem and should be
able to make a high enough concentration with a much simpler system.
> I don't think it is mold, as our house is brick built and
> extremely well ventilated, plus we have central heating and there
> is no mold smell. My hubby is a builder and he would know if there
> was damp or mold I am sure. This is the UK by the way.
Central heating usually means a hot air furnace. If so, the ducts
will collect lint. This is a perfect place for all kinds of mold to
grow. It doesn't have to make a moldy odor. It can, but many kinds
of mold don't generate voc's. The toxins are still very harmful.
It doesn't have to be damp. It gets all the water it needs from the
humidity in the air. About the only place I found that is dry enough
to minimize the growth is Boulder, Colorado in the winter. The
relative humidity is 3% to 5%, and this is enough to stop the mold.
Until spring arrives, and the humidity rises.
If you are lucky enough to have hot water heating, the main problem
is to keep dust and lint from collecting in the radiators.
But after all these things are addressed, the main culprit is
bedmold. This does more harm since you breath the toxins in eight
hours every night. The spores are more concentrated since they are
generated right where you are sleeping.
One of the biggest problems I find is if you use bleach in the wash
to kill the live mold plant, the bedding picks up more spores after
you finish washing the clothes and put them in the dryer. Usually,
the dryer has a bed of lint and dust several inches thick that has
collected in the bottom. This is a perfect breeding ground for mold,
and the spores are sucked into the dryer and get trapped in the
fabric.
If your dryer is in the basement, it also sucks in spores from mold
that is growing on the concrete walls or in dust and dirt that
collects in all the nooks and crannies. The mold colony doesn't have
to be big enough to be visible. But it is spread out over a large
area, so the spore concentration can be quite high. I am facing this
exact problem where I live right now.
The basement is cleaned by professional cleaners every week. But
after a few days, the spores start collecting in the stairwell and
hallways.
I have sealed the entrance door to my apartment, so they cannot get
in that way. But they get in somehow and make me very sick and give
terrible headaches.
I use the Dylos particle counters to monitor the situation. I find I
start getting a headache when the count reaches 3200 particles per
cubic foot. But outside in the hallway, the count can go as high as
520,000. This level makes it very difficult to seal all the little
cracks everywhere to keep the count inside the apartment below 3200.
I found that the high performance air filters made by 3M are not
very effective for mold spores. They are very expensive, around
$30.00CAD, and of course come with all the highest ratings from 3M.
But the Dylos counters show they only capture about 50% of the mold
spores, and the rest pass through. So I have to leave the fan
running 24 hrs per day to recirculate the air to bring the count
down. I am working on a new technology filter that I hope will give
much better performance. If it works, it will be the first real
advance in filters since the HEPA was invented during WWII to filter
plutonium dust in the Atom Bomb program.
I know this is not really interesting to you until you become
convinced that what I am saying has something to do with your
problems.
The best I can hope to do is to keep talking about it and
demonstrating what I have learned from my own experience. Then
maybe, bit by bit some of it will sink in and the information might
be useful to help solve your symptoms. But it is not going to be
easy, either to convince people this is a real problem, or finding
ways to solve it.
But I am pretty good at banging my head up against brick walls:)
> Thanks again for replying so comprehensively, I am finding the
> articles on herpes zoster most interesting.
dee
Thanks,
Mike M.
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