pHenomenal Water - Helps

pHenomenal water.

What is it? It is a product you add to water (distilled perferably) that helps to make your body more alkaline, and thus suppose to make the body a place the bacteria cannot live.

Our experience thus far has been positive, and follows in line what we have learned from other sources. I recommend it.

The guy promoting the product, obviously, loves his product and thinks it is amazing. I like it. He, however, discourages other things I know have been helpful.... therefore, I like the product and think it will help.. but beware if he turns you off to other GOOD things.

He also writes in such a way, as to make you feel he is a little strange, (IE mention of the 'borg'), but DON"T  let that 'off put' you. I think it is a genuinely GOOD PRODUCT that will be helpful in your battle against MRSA, and I think he really does want to help others.

In summation, I think it is a good product and recommend it. The dude is a little strange but well meaning, and the product is worth it.

http://mrsa30day.com/

Essential oil third party study links

Here is a link to a study using the essential oils that show reduction in bacteria and viruses.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21078173/

http://www.reinventinghealthcareinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dr.-Winterton-Effects-of-Farnesol.pdf

Essential Oils class

For those interesed in using essential oils to better help your families health, I absolutly believe the oils have helped to keep this bacteria from becoming worse in my family. I wanted to share this with others because I feel it helped us, and when you find something that helps, you just want to share and help others.

If you are interested in finding an oil class you can contact me, or truly, you probably already know someone that is already using the oils, and would be happy to help.

I have not opted to include ads on this blog, and I receive no free products or discounts for any of the products I discuss on this blog. That way you can know I am 100% sincere in what I feel helped us.

I can only recommend the following brands of essential oils, based on what I have read and also what I have experienced. I use the Doterra brand of oils. I like them and feel they are excellent quality, and give the results I need. The only other brand I recommend is by Young Living. Please research the oils before you rush out to buy essential oils. The brands I recommend are so pure they can be injested. Some brands cannot be injested, and may be processed with chemicals and solvents. Check the labeling carefully. A story listed in the "MRSA secrets revealed book", talks about a women who injested some essential oil that was NOT one of the brands I recommend, and it burned her throat.  This is not a pitch, this is a starting place for you to start your own research and read as much as you can.

You don't have to buy the brand I buy, I have recommended another, and you can research to find more. This stuff helps! It just has to be the right kind.

I have read as much information as I can get my hands on. I have more information to share, that I will be posting.

Again, read what I have listed as a starting point for your own research. I hope all the work and money we have spent will benefit more than just my family.

If you are interested in finding an oil class you can contact me, or truly, you probably already know someone that is already using the oils, and would be happy to help.

*Please note, I have always recommened going to the doctor as a first line of defense! If you saw me on 'Good things Utah' I actually said to start with a doctor. I believe doctors to be essential to your recovery and am so grateful to the doctors that helped us. Doctors first! I totally encourage talking with your doctor about using any of the things I recommend.

The studies I mentioned citing the effectiveness of the oils were listed in the "MRSA secerets revealed book." Where she cites studies in her index.

Here is another study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21078173/

Cold air diffuser + Essential oils

Ok, we swear by using a cold air diffuser. We actually had been introduced to a diffuser about two weeks before our daughter aquired MRSA. I was interested because we had been sick so much the previous school year, but didn't feel like we could cough up the money. But our priorities changed with the aquistion of MRSA. We bought one for our daughtr and have loved it. We feel that is why the other girls have not gotten MRSA. Here is why I suggest it to others, the microbiologist who wrote 'MRSA secrets reveled.' sights studies where they state the effectiveness of diffusing THEREPUTIC GRADE essential oils in the air may have the ability to kill bacteria in the air and on surfaces. The person who introduced us to them, had some pretty amazing stories to tell about people she knew having success. DoTerra sells some diffusers, but you can find many on-line, just make sure they are COLD AIR diffusers, and that your are using the right essentail oils, or it will just smell good but not DO good! REALLY WE FEEL THIS IS ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS. I feel I can have people over, if I am running the diffuser, and they won't aquire the MRSA.

Clean green

 I have tried, given much of the reading I have done, to start cleaning more green (healthfully). Not only is it suppose to help combat the MRSA, but is suppose to help immune function, so that your body is not battling toxins from your enviornment. I buy the 'Seventh generation' all purpose cleaner. It states it is 99.9 percent effective against most bacteria (same as the national best selling cleaner), and is thymol based (which is made from the essential oil thyme). I used to clean with a bleach based cleaner, and a cleanser. I now use the 'Seventh Generation', and for scrubbing I use baking soda. I also have made some antibacterial sprays using witch hazel (found at walmart next to rubbing alcohol) and 10-20 drops each of lavander and tea tree oil. ( I actually also use this spray to spray my babies bum after I change her, to keep bacteria from breeding) I use these oils the most, because as I have read are the safest for kids.  However, there are many proven effective oils that you may want to consider. I also have some hand sanitizer that I have bought from DoTerra that I carry in my purse called 'OnGuard".  I know cleaning green may sound 'too far' but it isn't any more expensive that the national brand, and baking soda is cheap.WHY NOT?  If it is proven just as effective?
Some people would say I may have went overboard.. but those people have NOT battled MRSA. When you will do just about anything to get your child back to health... don't judge until you have walked in someone else's shoes.

Immunity - Green drinks (smoothies)

Would you like your families immune system to become stronger? Even if you don't have MRSA?

When battling MRSA all the doctors, naturepaths, herbologists, information read online, have said the key is a stong immunity!

Ok- so how do you boost immunity? Here is a list of things by  Pedatricians, Herbololigists, Naturopaths, and the Microbiologist who wrote 'MRSA secrets reveled'.

Healthy foods! Lots of fruits and vegis. (You may need to keep introducing)
Cut back on sugar (Makes your body acidic, friendly to bacteria and viruses) Use stevia.
Rest. (Most kids could use more.)
Vitamins (Listed in another post.)
Yogurt or probiotics.
GREEN DRINKS. (Makes your body more alkaline and less hospitalable to the bad guys)

We now have cut back on sugar quite a bit, not perfect, but... the vitamins I think have helped TREMEDOUSLY, I am more sure she eats her fruits and vegis, gets sleep.

But we totally are into the green drinks thing! Green drinks help your body by making your body more alkaline, therefore making your body less hospitable to bacteria and viruses.  This WORKS! (It may even help with acne.)
You can make your own, there are LOTS of recipes online, or we buy 'BOLTHOUSE FARMS' - 'Green Goodness'. It is full of amazing things, and it tastes SCRUMPTIOUS. Even picky kids should love this!

So our best plan for immunity is - fruits, vegis, sleep, vitamins, low sugar, herbs, and MOST IMPORTANT TO THIS POST... GREEN DRINKS! We are a green drinking family! Bottoms up!

Vitamins

Vitamin D3
Vitamin C

So in about Jan. of this year, I met a women with MS who I overheard telling someone else she hadn't been sick for years. After their converstation ended, and inquired what she attributed her health to. She said she takes high doses of vitamin d, and vitamin c and gives them to her children.
Ok that being said,  we started ASAP on a vitamin d & c, regime right away, and this week is the first week she has been sick since! I think partly because we were lax about vitamins and bedtimes. Here are links to two articles I think helped make up our mind about the subject.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller25.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi43.html

We give my other kids about 1000 units a day, and my child with MRSA 5000 Units a day. I take about 4000, and so does my husdand. My sister started takes high doses, and says she notices she is less depressed, which if you do your research has been proven to do. Do your research and decide for your family. Vitamin d3, not d2, I've read is best for your body, and and buffered vitamin C is better for your body than absorbic acid.

I absolutly think Vitamin D and C are one of the most IMPORTANT keys to our battle with this bacteria. Please do your own research, but I personally have seen a difference in all the members of my family's health with these products.

No bleach baths - oils + salts

Bleach baths (yuck) - Bath Salts w/ lavander and tea tree oil

Ok, so we have been doing bleach baths to combat this terrible bacteria. Yikes. The purpose of the bleach bath is to kill MRSA on the skin. Well I am SOOOOO happy to inform you, that we went out on a limb (following some advice) and mixed bath salt with theraputic grade essential oils, and we have had just as good results with this!! Meaning - I think the oils kill the bacteria ON her skin JUST AS WELL as the bleach. 
*The salts are also suppose to soften skin, and may help with exzema, detoxify, and help with aches and pains. (The salt, when mixed with the oils, help the oils not to float on top, but to dissolve in the water.)
*The oils are suppose to kill the bacteria, help with immune function, and the lavander is suppose to help soothe at night. BONUS!
Do your own research and you will be sold! We take about 1/4 cup salts and mix with about four drops of each oil.  Mix the salts and oils before adding to the bath.
We do this about every day, I would recommend at least everyother day for someone who has MRSA. And would recommend twice a week, for someone who doesn't have this but who just never wants to get this.
I am so happy when I walk in her room at night and do not smell the overpowering scent of bleach. For us, this has worked EQUALLY as well as the bleach baths, been better for her skin, and her immune system. We buy DoTerra oils, but you can buy any HIGH QUALITY oils if they are Theraputic grade. Talk to your doctor about your options!

*Also, if you have members in your house hold who have not acquired MRSA yet, I TOTALLY recommend buying a natural body wash and mixing 10-20 drops of these oils into it, and having the family members wash twice weekly. Or if you have children who still take baths, I recommend placing them  in a newly cleaned tub, with this oils and salts twice weekly. This can help those who do not have the bacteria, from getting it.  I WISH we had done this sooner.

Hello

I have thought about starting a blog for the past few months. However, I kept waiting until we licked this bacteria, before sharing, so that I had information I felt was helpful. However, we are still waiting for the absolution from this bacteria.... so here is what I think helped, and hopefully we will get rid of it and you can benefit from our journey.

My daughter aquired MRSA in Sept. 2011. She was three at the time. We think she may have gotten it from a public toliet, or a childrens indoor blow-up play area. We are not sure.

My first bit of advice is, if a place looks dirty, it probably is. Therefore try to protect your childrens skin when going out, by keeping them covered with clothes, or putting something between them and a dirty surface. I would also recommend using portable toliet seat covers, and or wiping the seat off with and anti-bacterial wipe when going out! (don't freak, just take precautions - going out is a part of life)

She had sores that looked like spider bites, on her panty line. I circled them with a pen, and they got bigger by the next day. We took her to the pediatrician, who told us it was a staph infection, and gave us an antibiotic. That night it was worse, we took her back and saw a new doctor, who said it was MRSA, and perscribed a different antibiotic - specifically for MRSA. ( Note- it is Very important to get the right antibiotics, as the wrong one can make your infection grow stronger. You can get your strain tested by having your doctor do a culture on the pus.) We were told not to put her in the bath with our other children, and wash all of her clothes after each wear. Her towels were to be washed and kept seperate. We were told to put her in bleach baths every other day, after completing her anti's. Her anti's were so strong we were told to make sure she drake a lot, to keep her liver well. Yikes!

Before we could start the bleach baths, she got a new set of sores, and we started all over again. This time, we did the bleach at the same time, as the anti's.. which helped. We gave her lots of yogurt, etc, to help with body after the anti's...

Another round.... we started looking for other methods, to include, besides what our pediatrician said to aid our progress. In the meantime, my husband aquired MRSA.

Second tip; we found the book MRSA SECRETS REVELED

http://www.staph-infection-resources.com/mrsa-secrets-revealed-mrsa-free-program.html?gclid=CMHv7IO5uq8CFcIFRQodQSgSmA

We feel that this has helped us. And even though, when money is tight, it is hard to feel good about spending the money on something you are unsure of, I can only recommend this book. It has been worth our money! If you have had more than one case of MRSA, I would suggest this book. We use it as a refence almost weekly. She offers ME no money to say this, this is from my very own experience.

We have implemented some of the items, I will blog more about our other steps later.