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Want Remedy for Skin InfectionQuestion by Candice on 03/27/2007
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand)
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Antibiotics that they recommend in case you are wondering is Mupirocin 2% ointment, Amoxicillin, Cefuroxime, Cephalexin, Dicloxacillin, and Erythromycin. They all seemed not to work well and amoxicillin seems to work in the past, but my own observation is it didn't work for me lately.
The condition is usually infectious and for impetigo in general occurs more often in child, usually in my opinion of fungal origin. A deep cigarettes burn may have staph like in origin and may be somewhat flesh eating.
A basic remedy to try this is a real problem since you just have to make them yourself. This is because we are fighting with basically an unknown source of microbes.
Therefore we can make some obvious assumption: it is either a flesh eating bacteria, a fungus, a virus, or a nanoinsects. Borax, hydrogen peroxide, washing soda, baking soda, zinc, magnesium, and iodine should cover all territories.
Borax handles fungus and nanoinsects best.
Hydrogen peroxide kills generally by attacking an organic forms, which kills bacteria, fungus, viruses, but never nanoinsects. It acts as a catalysts to all solutions.
Iodine is best in loosing the glue that binds the bacteria to healthy cells (autoimmunity the best), but not necessarily kill them.
Magnesium is an underappreciated antibiotics that best handles bacteria which almost as effective as a silver compounds, but a lot cheaper and has little side effects.
Zinc is effective against most viruses.
Alkalinity is one territory that antibiotic resistant and chemical resistant bacteria have an Achille's heels. Those are best handled with washing soda, potassium bicarbonate, or sodium carbonate.
A 1% hydrogen peroxide with saturated solution borax (add until they no longer dissolve). They seem to have the best overall applications for me and if you can get magnesium chloride (or epsom salt or milk of mangesia) and a couple drops of iodine to it, the chances of killing the antibiotics can kill many fold to well over 1000 different microbes which includes, viruses, bacteeria and fungus. This is a wider spectrum solution that you can use.
In case you are wondering what kinds of solutions I do here for my skin infections then it is the zinc chloride 5%, magnesium chloride 10% solution, plus a drop or two of povidone iodine. Those are mainly for viral, nanoinsects and bacterial microbes. Therefore to kill the fungus, I might add saturated borax to the mix. This one is more ideal, but relatively difficult to obtain.
The secret seems to be preventing reinfection from clothes and frequency of application, such as 10 times per day or more. No rinsing either.
Of course, I recognize the trouble of finding chemicals, which is why I opt for simpler easier to find chemicals in a local drug store stores such as milk of magnesia, epsom salt, borax, hydrogen peroxide and povidone iodine. Since I haven't visited U.S. drug stores for over 20 years, it difficult for me to recommend other ones you can find easy today. Those that I distinctly remember that they have is what I am recommending.
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