Apple Cider Vinegar Side Effects

In response to: 10/12/2008: Sandra ([email protected]) from Los Angeles, regarding your acne break-out.

This is a sure fire way to CURE your acne once and for all! I have shared this remedy with the most severe cases and everyone who tried it could not believe that they cured their life long battle with acne so quickly.

Make sure you buy natural organic yogurt in a glass jar. (Friendly bacteria cannot survive in plastic.)

Buy a loofa thin face pad or facial sponge. DO NOT USE A FACE CLOTH! Why? If you let a face cloth soak in a bowl of distilled water for approx. 10 minutes then swish it around, you will see all the residue detergent and bleach that you used to wash it come out of it. Not good for your skin!

Pour a little of the organic yogurt into a clean little glass jar so as not to contaminate the larger jar. Use the contents of the little jar for several days, then throw out what's left over, wash and dry the little jar and replace with more yogurt from the big jar. Store both jars in the fridge.

Procedure: Rinse your face with as hot water as you can tolerate to open the pores, using the loofa or facial sponge. Quickly, while your face still feels warm, pour some of the yogurt from the little jar onto the loofa or sponge and start scrubbing a section of your face. Rinse the loofa/sponge and re-apply the yogurt to it. Scrub another section of your face. Rinse the loofa/sponge again and repeat until you have scrubbed your entire face.

Now, rinse your entire face with the hottest water you can tolerate and repeat the entire procedure again. Only, this time, when you've finished scrubbing your entire face with the yogurt, RINSE YOUR ENTIRE FACE WITH THE COLDEST WATER YOU CAN TOLERATE, TO CLOSE YOUR PORES.

Pat your face dry.

If you can do this upon awakening in the morning, and before you go to bed, within a few days you will see your acne disappearing. Even the worst cases will clear up entirely within 2 weeks, but do keep up the procedure for 1 mth., and it will never return.

If for some reason, mths go by, and one should appear, just put a dab of organic yogurt from a glass jar on it just before you go to bed and in the morning it should be gone.

The good guys in this type of yogurt are responsible for the cure. Guaranteed!

Leslie,

I am not a doctor or midwife but I have been pregnant before and I have worked in the medical field before also. I have two beautiful, healthy children; I am well read in many different subjects but what I really wanted to say is that I think it was precarious of you to try this remedy while you are pregnant. Did you ask your Dr. or mid-wife first? I personally would not take or drink any concoction during a pregnancy b/c it also affects your baby and if your not used to drinking vinegar or sour things then you will just vomit it up and cause extra unneccessary stress on your body and your baby.

i try ACV when i was pregnant of my first child and nothing when wrong. he weight 9lb and 2onces. i think i can say that ACV added extra nutrition. On my second pregnancy i had so many health problems that i was affraid to try vinegar. i don't know why. maybe what i needed was ACV. but you never know what can happen because you can't see if the baby is ok or not if you eat or drink something. in my case it was ok. if your not using ACV already don't risk it. Don't start right now if your pregnant.

Hello Leslie from Jamestown, NC, USA... When you say you took "3 T acv, 3 T honey" what does the "T" stand for? Teaspoons? Tablespoons?

Hi, I had the same thing happen to me. When I first started taking ACV. I don't if you added honey. I figure out it was the honey so I stop adding it and had no more problems. Also use raw organic AVC which is important. I've read that regular store bought vingar can be toxic and will cause problems. Hope this helps.

In response to: 10/06/2008: Della Heywood from Emeryville, CA writes: "Warnings / Side Effects:

You WILL re-build your good bacteria up much faster if you eat fermented foods.

Google: "Fermented foods that feed existing good bacteria.

Check out the below link for the full story.
http://www.deliciousorganics.com/controversies/fermentedfoods.htm

Also, google: "foods that feed the existing good bacteria.

Probiotics are just a band-aid.....they cannot adhere to the intestinal wall, therefore, they are expelled during a bowel movement. So you constantly have to spend monies buying more and more pills.

FEED YOUR EXISTING GOOD GUYS BY EATING
PRE-BIOTICS NATURAL FOODS, THIS WAY YOU STRENGTHEN YOUR GOOD GUYS & THEY WILL FIGHT THE BAD GUYS FOR INTESTINAL WALL TERRITORY AND THEY WILL STAY THERE!

Feed them what they need and they will multiply within hours. ie: Fermented Strub's Pickles & Sauerkraut.

Do your homework and see for yourself.
Save money, time and your health!

Hope this helps.

Hello, I just wanted to make a comment regarding yeast infections as a result of taking AVC. I have had such amazing results in just my first week. I lost 5 pounds right off! I am now regular for the first time in 20 years. My skin looks amazing and the energy is insane. In addition I used to be a daily beer drinker and I no longer crave it!!!I am so excited!!! As far as getting yeast infections, I take 2 tablets of proboitics and 2 of zinc daily. Works incredibly!!! Good luck to all of you!

I am having the same problem with constipation. I lost 3 lbs somehow right away but have been constipated and am getting some canker sores too - wondering of it is the ACV. The first 2 days I did 2tbsp 2x day then switched when I came across the new recommendations so have been doing 2 tsp 1x a day. I have a sinus infection which seems to be slowing getting better but wondering if I should stop with the ACV. I feel like my eyes are burning slightly as well but hard to tell if that's due to sinuses. Would appreciate any helpful comments on constipation though and if that is a sign to stop or keep going.

Thanks

Ruemedi, always listen to your body when taking natural remedies. Not every remedy is good for everyone, and being constipated encourages candida and other problems. Also, it has been my experience that canker sores and burning eyes are both signs of too much acid in the system. I would stop taking the ACV and research other natural remedies to combat the sinus infection.

michelle from l. A ca, if you havent found out by NOW lol.. Extra virgin or just virgin coconut oil works great to sooth skin, moisturize and restore any dry flaky itchy skin you might have... Works wonders for my kinky curly thick hair! Not to mention my skin is usually pretty dry normally, but not so much anymore!

Try switching shampoos they have lots of hormones in them... I went to baby shampoo to test it... and all this time it's really the shampoos that cause breakouts in my case.....

I would reduce the dosage significantly. Whenever I try something new I go way below the suggested amount which is 2 teaspoons. I would start with 1/8th teaspoon just to see the effects to my body.

While I was surfing about ACV, I also read that it lowers blood pressure. Maybe, the headaches are due to that. I had bit of headache too but I started taking remedies like consume a bit of salt, coffee and its fine. Headaches are stronger when I take ACV empty stomach as there is more chance for blood pressure drop.

Maybe you are just detoxing. My guess is that your body can't purge toxins fast enough for whatever reason, so it's using your skin to get rid of them.

I would press on with the ACV, but maybe cut the amount by half until the problem is gone. Just pace the detox slower and be gentle with your body. It's doing you a favor. Try to work with it, unless it becomes too uncomfortable.

Also, drink lots of water and add extra fiber to your diet.

Leslie:
Most eczema, not all, are often a result of a fungus or mycobacterium that exists along the skin or some minute amounts leading to eczema. The condition is often metabolic acidosis which initiates the eczema, but at the same time the ACV have certain properties which may raise the immune system through its malic acid and mineral content found in the ACV. For example the malic acid is converted into malates which is used by the Krebs cycle giving more energy to the cells. If the energy to the cells is increased, the immunity is increased in the long term. The problem about ACV is it's acid content which does kill the fungus and mycobacterium by the actions of malates or organic components that leads to longer term alkalization. But since the body has insufficient bicarbonates to neutralize the acidity, the mycobacterium may cause greater growth when the body is temporarily acid in the short term, and hence the eczema. This eczema is the result of temporary metabolic acidosis.

There is a way to prevent side effects from ACV use by what chemist use to buffer the acidity to make it more alkaline in many consumer products and medicine we used. One of the simplest buffer is the baking soda, which raises the pH of the Apple Cider vinegar to a close 7 or 7.5 pH, which is closer to biologically active pH that doesn't support short term mycobacterium growth. Mycobacterium, fungus, and other usually flourishes in a more acidic pH. Therefore, this remedy was resolved mostly by taking 2 tablespoons of Apple Cider vinegar plus at least 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in 1/2 or preferably 1 glass of water. Taken usually three times a day. However, if the conditions of eczema is present, usually I will raise the baking soda remedy from 1/4 teaspoon to 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda plus 2 tablespoons of ACV in 1 full glass of water taken at least twice a day instead.

However, I am not dealing with the fundamentals here. I have a bad history of eczema myself. In an attempt to understand the basic cause of eczema just for me I decided to take an experiment with a carbicarb remedy. The carbicarb remedy used by me is 1/4 teaspoon of sodium carbonate (washing soda...a precursor of baking soda) plus 1/4 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in one full glass of water taken twice or three times a day will stop the eczema within a matter of an hour at most. For me it stopped within a couple of minutes. Mycobacterium, fungs and bacterium won't generally grow whenever the body's pH is raised to an alkaline level. It is this reason why the Ocean's water is so sterile: salinity and alkalinity. The alkalinity of Ocean's water is 8.

As to where ACV comes in is that the malic acid raises the energy level of cells raising the immunity of the cells at the same time - the cells simply have more energy to fend off invading organisms. There may be other elements found in ACV, such as acetate, which has limited antifungal.

The problem about temporary eczema may go away with ACV use, but in some cases eczema may be persistent too. The issue appears that some people may have limited ability to neutralize the acidity from the ACV using the body's available bicarbonates to neutralized them and hence why baking soda was added to put less pressure on the body to come up with the bicarbonate currency to make it biologically compatible with the body's pH of 7.35. So some cases eczema may persists and some may get better, but if baking soda was added immediately before use, eczema wouldn't flare up, generally speaking.

Am I missing any other factors on eczema besides alkalization and immunity issues? One other additional fact is most people's diet, with industrialized farming practices, has caused humans, cats, dogs, cows, chickens, and pigs to have low level of omega 3. Low level of omega 3 didn't happen in humans first. It happened in farm animals. Chickens source of food were originally high in omega 3, if raise in the wild, but with modern methods, the omega 6 to omega 3 has risen lowering greatly omega 3. This happens in cows in U.S. as farming practices changed from grass fed to grain fed to economize. When we do that omega 3 goes precipitously down.

Omega 3 is responsible for immune conditions and anti-inflammatory properties and reduction in eczema. So much of the problems in the benefits of raw food of Pottinger Cats, and the eating of animal fats from Weston A. Price is useless since the animals we eat today (unlike Weaton A. Price's time) is that the omega 3 has droped precipitiously. So what we have now in U.S. is an Omega 6 to Omega 3 of 20: 1 instead of an ideal 4:1 or 1: 1 omega 3 to omega 6 ratios. Currently the country that has the highest known omega 3 is Japan at 4: 1 or Omega 6 to Omega 3. Fish oil is the supplements I would very likely take for my eczema besides just the baking soda be added to the apple cider vinegar.

However in a more severe cases of eczema I used a stronger alkalization method, which is commonly called the carbicarb remedy as mentioned already, which causes the eczema to go away in a matter of hours. As a hint to further reduction the use of dechlorinator of sodium thiosulfate added to drinking water may further help (chlorines and fluorine are pro-inflammatory) while sodium thiosulfate will at least neutralize the chlorine. A simpler way to remove chlorine is to add a couple of drops of 3% H2O2 per glass of water, such as 2-3 drops, which will neutralize the chlorine.

If there is anything i forget about the other cause of eczema, its that certain foods, such as wheat products, cheese tomatoes, aspartame, potatoes, peanuts, sugar, fruit juices (contains fructose), yeast product, peppermint in toothpastes, and other fermented products are some of the common causes of eczema due to the mycotoxin and fungus content found in these products. Interestingly the reason why antibiotics causes eczema is it is acid forming, raises free heavy metals, and has mycotoxins and fungus. Antibiotics is usually made from fungus, and hence it's no surprise that it causes eczema too. Meats now cause eczema because it raises the body's omega 6 as omega 3 is now reducing. So

I greatly doubt if unethical industrialized farming practices using GMO cows, pigs, chickens raised on grains, cannibalism and steroids injection is going to have much positive impact on practitioners of raw food diet, paleolithic diet, Atkins diet, eat right for your blood type diet, or any other similar diets fads if the foods we are now eating are toxic. The issue that pervades any dietary practice is to avoid bad industrialized farming practices (U.S. may be the worse), which is a lot simpler theory I proposed than the other guru diet fads. Much of my eczema comes from bad farming practices by corporate world. Now we have babies, dogs and cats to worry about because they eat from the same source of food which comes from processed foods and using the same bad farming practices. Perhaps this is where some of the eczema is coming from.

Ted

I have read on a website called DHerbs.com that Eczema is caused by over growth of Candia and parasites. If one changes their diet Eczema can be cured. Perfume is not good if you suffer from eczema, it causes break outs as well. ACV helps to cure it, however its a longer process if you are still eating red meats and breads.

ACV everyday!!

I read the side effects about apple cidar vinegar and eczema. My daughter is allergic to yeast and yeast is in apple cidar vinegar. When she eats anything with yeast, she develops severe eczema. I am concerned about starting her on ACV for acne or anything else.

I also had a rash problem, I have been using 2-4 tbls of ACV daily for a couple months, and recently came down with a flu. So I started to up my dosage of ACV to about 6-9 tbls or more , about 3 days into the flu, My body was covered in a rash. I have a history of Eczema as well, and the rash was without a doubt an allergic reaction to something i assume the ACV.

Hi there, I wouldn't go so far as to say that you are abnormal. You just might be allergic or have an intolerance to something in the apple cider. Does eating apples or drinking apple juice make you sick? If not, it probably isn't that. Was this apple cider you drank or apple cider vinegar and did you dilute it with water or juice before drinking it, if it was AC vinegar?

I can see it making you nauseous if you began taking more than a tiny sip of pure AC vinegar, not being used to it. You might try again, but diluting it first, but only if you have no problem with eating apples or drinking apple juice.

In response to the person who got nauseaus after trying apple cider vinegar. I had a similiar result when I started having 1/2 lemon with honey and water every morning on an empty stomach. The problem was, I was also taking my multivitamin. My guess is the lemon was disolving my multivitamin and I was getting my daily dose immediately. As soon as I stopped taking my multivitamin with the lemon juice, I was fine. Now I just wait and take my vitamin after I've eaten my breakfast a little later.

I take a daily concoction of 1 tsp ACV, 4 ounces of unsweetened cranberry juice, 12 ounces of water, and half of a squeezed lemon. It's part of an eating plan and it's said to help cleanse the liver. All I know about it after seven days is that I feel generally better. I am prone to UTI's so the cranberry is definitely helping, and I've lost 4 pounds in eight days. (Of course, I'm following a prescribed plan of eating all natural foods and eating every three hours). It's a bitter drink, but I'm still drinking it!

Do you use bubble bath? I used to suffer from frequent UTIs until someone told me to stop using bubble bath.

I would like to say that not only is bubble bath bad but tub baths are bad for females! The bubble bath causes anything in the water to work it's way to the urinary tract faster. I have been using ACV for UTIs. It works. The only thing is that as soon as I taper off, the UTI comes back! I've read a lot of the posts here and I think I may be taking more at one time than necessary. I have been using 1T ACV, 1T honey in 4 0z water, 4 times a day to cure the UTI. I tapered off to 3 times a day on the fourth day. Nine days later I'm in pain again! I guess I have to experiment with the amounts and dosage. I appreciate all the help I have found here.

hi - i just wanted to say that if you take a bath and put a 1/2 a cup or more of the ACV in your bath water - that it will work it's way into your uretha and help with uti's. my friend had the same problem with you and taking it didn't help as much as soaking in it in the tub.

Something very similar to this happened to me. I have been taking 2 tsp ACV in 16 oz of water throughout the day for about 2 weeks now, just for general health benefits and to ward off colds. Yesterday I tried the ACV/baking soda bath. First I did some dry skin brushing and then took a 30 min soak with 1 cup each ACV and baking soda. After about 15 min I started to get a burning sensation on the backs of my thighs and my rear. This lasted for a while after I got out too. Then I took a nap and it was gone when I woke up. All I can figure is that I am detoxing through that area? I am not sure if it is due more to the dry skin brushing or to the ACV.

Try unfiltered, organic, ACV (health food stores) ....you'll get a deliciously flavoured ACV that is pure and realiably 5% in acidity....the "knock-offs" are almost always impure and far more acidic.....I dilute 1- TBS ACV w/4oz. H20 & a pinch or two of baking soda (5-days on 2-days off)....or 2-TBS. w/8oz. H20 & 3 or four pinches of baking soda (4-days on 3-days off)...If you try this, start with the lower dose ...I think you'll thrive & find that previous problems wree caused by over-dosing,too much acidity and/or under buffering w/soda...(I've come to actually crave the ACV on off days, due to it's delicious taste w/o the multitude of health benefits it offers ...Good luck!

Hi, I want to try using ACV. Is a table spoon mixed with a glass of water enough if I take it once a day? I do not want to drain my body of the good nutrients. I have fibroids and I take natural nutients for my condition. When I do not take those my fibroids cause me problems so I do not want to rid my body of those helpful nutrients. I do want the health benefits from using ACV. Is there a safe balance?

To Jayadurga from Eastborough, UK re: side effects of ACV with Metformin. I too am on Metformin for Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome and Insulin Resistance. We need to remember that being on METFORMIN can sometimes cause certain side-effects including Lactic acidosis, malaise and Vitamin B12 Malabsorption.

The symptoms of Lactic Acidosis are: weakness, increasing sleepiness, slow heart rate, cold feeling, muscle pain, shortness of breath, stomach pain, feeling light-headed, and fainting. It is a very dangerous disease and needs urgent medical attention.

Another side-effect of Metformin is Vitamin B12 malabsorbtion. A couple of the signs that you are deficient in Vitamin B12 are tiredness/weakness and depression, among many others. It's a good idea to take a Vitamin B12 supplement or B-complex whilst on Metformin, and this may increase your energy levels and prevent these negative symptoms.

Best thing to do when on Metformin is to have a healthy diet (preferably low in acid-forming foods and drinks, especially sodas), increase fresh vegetables, decrease high GI, high carb foods, take a vitamin mineral supplement, do regular exercise, and drink lots of water.

Perhaps it is not the ACV that is the cause of your tiredness and depression. But just like any treatment, natural or artificial, take it slowly to begin with and gradually increase the dose. Hope this helps :)