Posted on 11/30/2004 12:12:37 PM PST by neverdem
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Saline spray may help control fluBy Maggie FoxREUTERS NEWS AGENCY Published November 30, 2004 Simply inhaling a saltwater spray could help prevent the spread of diseases including flu and tuberculosis, U.S. and German researchers reported yesterday.
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the vaccine is the source of the virii.
I will NEVER believe differently.
It's a solution looking for a problem... and a big government prop up of the pharmaceutical industry...
EVERY person I know who has gotten the 'flu shot' in any year, always comes down IMMEDIATELY with a weak version of that infection... and manages to spread it to the spouse, kids, parents or co workers, who get the 'full blown version' and suffer for months passing it back and forth.
IT is smarter to just wash your hands obsessively in the winter, use hand sanitizer very very often, and stay 20 feet or more away from coughers in public and quarantine yourself if you catch anything... instead of being a 'good employee' with a 'great work ethic' and working yourself and your coworkers into walking pneumonia, bronchitus and inner ear infections that can hospitalize.
that flu shot is a scam.
and only those with a compromised immune system should be getting it and even then under restrictions. in medicine sometimes the treatment is more dangerous than the disease.
this saltwater treatment... probably does as much to stop the disease spread as any vaccine...
With a little ozone in the house and a particular brand of silver water I use when I feel something coming on, I never get anything that lasts 24 hours. 7 years and counting.
I had not heard of any studies like this, I just was going on that I grew up in S. Texas and was on one boat or another practically every day of my life, and rarely had any sickness then.
I also have a gut feeling that the more salinity in the water, the better the protection. In Texas, I was usually found somewhere on the back bays all the time ...very salty water and air. Here in Florida (E. Coast), I lived on the beach for awhile and I can tell you the Atlantic water and air is not nearly as salty. Seems like I have had more sickness out here. Course, the beach out here also has alot more beer and girls, so that could have something to do with it ;-)
Where do you live?
In years past a live virus was used in the vaccine and it did give you a light case of the flu. For this reason I refused to take a flu shot. Then we moved to a town where everyone came down with the flu every year. The kids went to high school sick and it passed to the families.
I got so tired of being sick every year I decided to start taking a flu shot. To my surprise, now a killed virus is used and you DO NOT get the flu from the vaccine, a sore spot on your arm or where ever but that is ALL.
I agree.
And a scant 30 years ago the world laughed at Howard Hughes...
If you have to go to a doctor's office, don't touch the magazines (since people with the creeping bots thumb through them all day). Don't touch your hands to your eyes or your mouth. Wash your hands frequently. When you come home, change your clothes and take a shower.
Thanks for the thought, but sick folks come to see me.
This is only a theory, but I believe the physical principle behind saline spray is that because it is a supersaturated saline solution, the saline solution is absorbed by osmosis through the cellular walls of a virus cell, thus either killing the virus cell or preventing its ability to reproduce.
NYC.
Number one cold/flu resistance technique for me? Drink as little tap water as possible. I'm convinced the cholrination/flouridation weakens your immune system and makes you more vulnerable to virus attacks. Do all the hand washing and hand sanitizing stuff, too, but drink distilled water during the winter and you'll be sick less often, and get milder symptoms when you do get sick.
for the past five years... they DO still get the virus...
regardless of your assertion.
and it DOES cause the disease in folk who would otherwise NOT be exposed. It's pharmaceutical scam.
similar results are obtained by taking raw apple cider dissolved in water. Acidifying the blood over a period of hours, makes the cell walls of virii and bacterium very vulnerable... and reproduction, far less likely.
Most americans NEVER drink enough fluids to stay well.
8-10 glasses a day of water. NOT diet pepsi, not beer, not wine, not coke... but water. WHAT you drink above and beyond that does not matter so much as the initial gallon or two of water.
one of many health problems we bring upon ourselves...
food that does not nourish and fluids that do not irrigate the system.
flu season makes it hyper critical we get it right.
A virion, i.e. an elementary viral particle, is composed of either a DNA or RNA core surrounded by a protein covering called a capsid. It has no cell wall. It penetrates another cell, bacterium, animal or plant cell, merges its core with its host's genetic material, and directs it to make more copies or the virus, often, maybe always, to the point where it literally bursts the host cell.
IIRC, the saline solution decreases the number of droplets(bioaerosols) formed during sneezing or coughing apparently by the effect on surface tension in the secretions of the respiratory tract.
You have also reminded me of an old book I read in grade school. I loved science back then, too, ookay, okay I've always been a geek, LOL.
It was Folk Medicine by Dr. D.C. Jarvis. Folk Medicine
Oops, I stand corrected - no cell. However, DNA and RNA are both strands of nucleic acids which could be affected adversely by a supersaturated saline solution, yes? I'm sincerely asking here. :)
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