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Posted 8/3/2010 8:25 PM (GMT 0)

Hey everyone,

I was recently diagnosed with UC (7/20/2010). Of course, I instantly began researching on the internet. One website I came across claimed to have found a "cure" for UC. A woman, by the name of Moreen Burke, is selling a book that is supposed to be a how-to guide on curing your UC.

From searching multiple forum sites, I gathered that the book outlines 3 simple steps:

Step #1: Start an incremental regime of drinking a dilute solution of hydrogen peroxide based on 'food grade 35% H202'. This continues for 16 days at 3 times a day.
Step #2: Take Boswellia resin extract

Step #3: Take Olive leaf extract

My question is, has anyone ever had any experience with this, and if so, what were the outcomes? When ever I see anyone selling something, I instantly assume its a scam, so it would be great if anyone can shed some light on it for us.

Posted 8/3/2010 9:22 PM (GMT 0)
No. I don't recall anyone advocating the ingesting of a diluted bleach for UC.

Who knows, she just maybe onto something.
Posted 8/3/2010 9:30 PM (GMT 0)
No, I haven't heard of that one yet either.

 

Posted 8/3/2010 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
Is she selling the solution for step one? If not, it might be worth a shot. I tend to be trusting of these type things if the peddler has nothing to gain from his/her peddling.
Posted 8/3/2010 9:35 PM (GMT 0)
I wouldn't trust anyone who claims to have found a "cure" for UC since there is no cure except for surgery.

Sue
Posted 8/3/2010 9:38 PM (GMT 0)
"I wouldn't trust anyone who claims to have found a "cure" for UC since there is no cure except for surgery."


Good point. I must have glossed over that part.
Posted 8/3/2010 9:57 PM (GMT 0)
I'd try it if it were me. If it makes sense to you, try it.
Posted 8/3/2010 10:39 PM (GMT 0)
I found this on Consumer Reports Health:

But using hydrogen peroxide this way can be dangerous or even deadly, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned in July 2006. While the manufacturers’ directions call for diluting their products before use, there’s no established safe threshold for drinking or injecting hydrogen peroxide. Taken orally, the chemical might cause gastrointestinal irritation or ulcers, the agency said. Injecting it might cause inflammation, emboli (bubbles in blood vessels), and potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. And the 35 percent concentration can burn the skin or even combust.
(For the rest of the article see http://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-living/home-medical-supplies/hydrogen-peroxide-12-06/overview/1206_hydro_ov_1.htm)
Posted 8/3/2010 11:11 PM (GMT 0)
Food grade hydrogen peroxide can be drinkable if diluted, but it isn't the safest thing to drink. The idea behind it is to kill viruses, bacteria, etc. You must be careful to dilute it correctly like songlady posted above.

Boswellia is fairly well known anti-inflammatory herbal, and it does have studies to show it helps with colitis, it takes a fairly high dosage 3 times a day for about a month to take effect.

Not sure about olive leaf.
Posted 8/3/2010 11:45 PM (GMT 0)
For me if I see someone say that there's a way to cure UC I don't trust it. There is no cure to UC besides surgery. There's medicine that can put you into remission, but the only cure is surgery. I wouldn't lean towards something like that without talking to the Doctor about it.
Posted 8/4/2010 12:02 AM (GMT 0)
See...right there is a problem when someone thinks that an area that doesn't see sunshine should have some.

If anyone wants to drink something that someone tells them to in search of a cure...go ahead. I have some land in the antarctic for sale too.

killcolitis....the fact you think it's OK do drink diluted peroxide for UC scares me.


The OP is obviously a spammer.

q
Posted 8/4/2010 12:53 AM (GMT 0)
I looked it up online, and I see it looks like just somebody trying to scam people out of money for some useless little book. There are better ideas for free on the internet and this website.
Posted 8/5/2010 5:54 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for all the feedback guys. I am new to this Colitis thing. Trying to figure out what works best and what to advoid.
Posted 8/5/2010 6:28 PM (GMT 0)
Never in a million years would I drink hydrogen peroxide, diluted or not.
Posted 8/5/2010 6:33 PM (GMT 0)
It is crazy to drink hydrogen peroxide.
I am sure that you'll burn all your GI tract (from you mouth all the way down to anus, not only your colon) if you drink hydrogen peroxide.
Posted 8/5/2010 6:44 PM (GMT 0)

suebear said...
I wouldn't trust anyone who claims to have found a "cure" for UC since there is no cure except for surgery.

Sue

Ditto.
Posted 8/5/2010 8:26 PM (GMT 0)

quincy said...
I have some land in the antarctic for sale too.

q

smilewinkgrin This was good :-) I wudn't drink Hydrogen peroxide !! nono
Posted 8/5/2010 8:46 PM (GMT 0)
It's not uncommon to use it, many functional docs do use it and there are many protocols for it's use (I can't remember the name of the dr. who first developed it years ago). I've known a couple of people who have used it with varying effects. One intravenously. I'd look into it a little more before being scared off (or before taking it). What are your (our) other choices - prednisone, remicade, imuran?
Also, I've know a few people to have healed their colitis. I'm not using the word cure since I don't know it will ever come back. But they have put themselves into very solid remissions. I know it's possible.
Posted 8/5/2010 9:46 PM (GMT 0)
Hydrogen peroxide is darn good for a lot of things. It's not just a good bleach.

I'd be ****-scared of drinking it though...
Posted 8/5/2010 10:16 PM (GMT 0)
I'd be more scared of drinking city water full of sodium fluoride and chlorine. A person takes in more toxic ingredients in drugs, food, and vaccines. Just that the dosage is low enough where it doesn't kill you outright, although vaccines has some, but may over time in the form of diseases.
Posted 8/6/2010 12:59 AM (GMT 0)
I don't think I'd drink it... MAYBE for an infection or something (if I was out of options and kinda desperate) but never for bleeding ulcers and inflammed stuff.
Posted 8/6/2010 1:14 AM (GMT 0)

Zippy123 said...
Food grade hydrogen peroxide can be drinkable if diluted, but it isn't the safest thing to drink. The idea behind it is to kill viruses, bacteria, etc.

Yes. But I'm sure it kills the good along with the bad...
Posted 8/6/2010 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
killcolitis...what scares me more is the fact that it's your daughter with UC, not you. What you'd do out of desperation.

No one has cured their UC with peroxide....sheesh.

q
Posted 8/6/2010 6:15 AM (GMT 0)
I take Boswelia and Olive leaf every morning as antifungals. Um.... and I use hydrogen peroxide- ON CUTS! Drink it? Yikes!
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