chlorine dioxide, miracle mineral suppliment?
It appears that chlorine dioxide gets it disinfectant properties by acting as an oxidant. Basically it steals electrons from other molecules. If you put this into a human it would go around and steal electrons from whatever molecules it touched first. If that human had malaria it would also steal electron from the malaria parasite and cause lysis, cell rupture, but only after it had caused many more human cells to rupture first. Antibiotics that target things like malaria are selectively toxic. That is they disrupt cell processes that are either not present in human cells or are metabolically different in human cells in order to avoid damaging human cells. Chlorine dioxide is not selectively toxic. I would be highly skeptical of the claims that are being made. Also a quick search of Pubmed reveals nothing relevant.
Chlorine dioxide is already in wide use as a disinfectant, but it’s not as safe as those links or your friend might think. Here’s a brief explanation, by way of Google Books.
Heh, couldn’t access one of stbalbach’s links before. The short, short version: Chlorine dioxide in sufficiently high doses causes nausea, diarrhea and vomiting by irritating the stomach and esophagus. The dose is higher than any normal disinfectant use, and is designed to cause this distress. The ridiculously high concentration (28%!) triggers purging well before digestion, which makes tossing your cookies and getting the runs the sum total reason to drink the stuff.
Chlorine dioxide itself is a gas at STP, and although it can be dissolved in water, it’s still pretty unstable there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_dioxide The NPI states that exposure to ClO2 (as a gas) can cause all sorts of nasty lung problems, and it seems to be bad for fetuses too. http://www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/21.html The pages you link to cite no references for their impossible claims. I smell hoax. Ask your friend if they believe in Colloidal Silver as a magical cure-all too.
Hi stbalbach. I’ve been intrigued by your search for info on this. A good friend of mine has started using MMS and asked me to check it out for her. Congrats on maintaining your cool through all the provocation; I admire your clarity of vision. Have you found out any more about chlorine dioxide’s possible usefulness in treating malaria, AIDS et al? BTW I read through StrikeTheViol’s attachment (“Levels as high as this huckster’s concentration were never tested in humans because they led to thyroid defiiciency,…”) and I think he/she’s in error. From my reading of the linked paper (and gobbledegook is not my major) studies were done on humans with doses of .34mg/kg and found no changes in vitals (including blood thyroid hormone levels). According to my (possibly flaky) calculations, the so called huckster’s recommended dose @ 2×15 drops a day would be circa .01 mg/kg/day. From memory, the dosage at which vitals changes were noted in monkeys was a massive 9.5 mg/kg. Sorry STV, don’t mea
