How to stop herx?

Welcome to the forum, LabRatDeluxe!

What are you currently doing to tame the herx?

Here is a list of some methods I used:

- drinking lots of water
- taking Nutramedix Burbur and Pinella
- light excercise
- take charcoal tablets
- having a warm Epsom salt bath.

If I feel really lousy - I’d go to bed and play some music and hopefully fall asleep for an hour or so.

Welcome!

There have been lots of good posts over the years about detoxing to quell a herx. Would you like to share a bit more about how you are treating, what you're already doing for detox and system support, etc.?

My LLMD liked the formula CytoQuel by Researched Nutritionals, but you can get the individual ingredients separately as well to try them. Alka-Seltzer Gold is helpful for a lot of people. Epsom salt baths. Lemon water. Magnesium. Binders (charcoal, bentonite clay, etc.).

Sometimes the only thing to do is back off from antimicrobial treatment until you're back to a tolerable baseline. A severe herx can be damaging and set you back, so pushing through when things are really hard is not a good idea.

The detox strategies that helped me the most were:
Starting very, very slowly with antimicrobial treatment and listening to my body
Making sure to have a complete bowel movement every day (i.e. vegetables!!!)
Staying hydrated

Some people need gut and liver support in order to handle antimicrobial treatment. Regular elimination, milk thistle, dandelion, digestive bitters, digestive enzymes, probiotics, etc.

Curcumin and quercetin help me a great deal in reducing inflammation and symptoms.

Hope you find some helpful ideas!

For reasons unknown, nothing helped me either. This is not to say I didn’t try to detox with baths, dry skin brushing and charcoal as it is good to do something. For some of us more is not better. Excessive detoxing can also be detrimal as it simply pushes the body too hard

For me Engler approach to voth treatment, detoxing and supplant choices is necessary. I try to carefully choose supplements as well. I don’t wish to overload my system.

jMF84,

Like you, I have also had to pay close attention to which supplements may have antimicrobial activity themselves. The last thing one wants to do is overload a system with multiple killing agents.