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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 0:34:04 GMT -5
Mites, Bacteria, Fibers, Polymers, New Nervous System-How could that change your DNA? Please read this on microencapsulation. The bacteria UPTAKE the material whether it be metals or polymers. Could they uptake nematodes in a crytobiotic state or are they delivered some other way? This even mentions the use of microencapsulated bacteria!!!! Microencapsulation: What Is It? The technology of packaging solid, liquid, or gaseous materials in small capsules that release their contents at controlled rates.-Thomas Chang tinyurl.com/6v2d8q2Important Words: Interfacial polymerization-Hydrophobic, Hydrophilic and Combination Polymers Synthetic Polymer Choices: Non-biodegradable-MethylMethacrylate Alginate from Lessonia nigrescens and Lesoia trabeculata Alginate the Monomers Random coils-Ordered ribbon-Egg box (would this be a fiber shape) Recombinant Gene Therapy-Alginate-Polylysine (see picture) Aminoplast Pre-polymer System Microcapsules in Food Science-Improve the delivery of bioactive compounds; Stabilize passage into the gastrointestinal system; Specific controlled release The polymer choice is what really matters because the variety of possible functional components seems endless. Future Directions: CRYOPRESERVATION NANOCAPSULES WHOSE POLYMERS CAN TARGET SPECIFIC BODY PARTS MICROENCAPSULATION OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TO CIRCUMVET NEED FOR BT CORN
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 1:31:44 GMT -5
I'm thinking that the spore fibers are a combination of inorganic and organic chemistry. I was trying to find a link between the two. Here are a couple of results: Protonation/deprotonation in natural (Bacillus subtilis spore) and synthetic (hydrogel) ionic reservoirs Sergey V. Kazakov1, Elizabeth M. Bonvouloir2 and Korki Miller1, (1)Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, (2)Pace University, New York, NY Hydrogel is a synthetic ionic reservoir capable of accumulating and releasing ions. Its ability to swell or shrink reversibly is controlled by the charge on the network, counterions associated with the network charge, and difference in concentrations of mobile ions inside hydrogel and in the exterior solution. There is a hypothesis that behavior of bacterial spores and hydrogels can be analogous: a spore cortex, a peptidoglycan cross-linked polymer, has a negative net charge and a high content of mobile ions; a low degree of cross-linking allows the spore cortex to change the volume in response to varied water and ion content. The kinetics of establishing an equilibrium pH in the external suspensions of natural ionic reservoirs (Bacillus subtilis spores) and synthetic polymer networks (hydrogels) was studied experimentally by the time-resolved potentiometry. The methods of chemical kinetics were applied to estimate the rates of ion diffusion and binding to the ionizable groups inside hydrogel particles and spores. It was shown that the parameters of protonation/deprotonation kinetics are size-dependent in polymer network. In the case of spores, these parameters were found to be influenced by the spore germination effectors (extreme pH, temperature, and nutrients). The hydrogels of nanometer size (nanogels and nanofilms) are of great potential for the development of a new generation of actuators, biosensors, and environmentally responsive elements. The properties of bacterial spores are currently in the focus of scientific research which addresses the crucial principles of spore detection and identification, the mechanisms of germination and sporulation.
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 1:40:27 GMT -5
Are Bacillus endospores toxic? YES according to this research. It also says they occur in deoxygenated media. Does that mean that when the bacteria produces spores, there is a lack of oxygen? Hydrogen Peroxide comes into the picture here because it is a reactive oxygen species (ROS). If you have fibers coming out of your skin, a multitude will end up in your environment and you will inhale them especially if they are coming from your face, nose or mouth area. This might prove whether a fiber were actually an endospore containing fiber if this Fenton reagent formula were used on it. However, I don't think Morgellons spores are natural spores but this is talking about a synthetic biology lab so this formula may work on gram positive subtillis. but the everyday Morgellons victim would not have access to these ingredients: aqueous dissolved oxygen, cupric chloride, ascorbic acid, sodium chloride and a little sulfactant dilution which are used as modified Fenton reagent. The reason that we chose B.subtilis in our project is the LPS binding character of LALF. Gram positive bacteria such as B.subtilis have no LPS layer on their cell wall. This obligation of choosing alternative bacterium leads to another problem: B.subtilis has the ability to form endospores. B.subtilis, normally, has no pathogenic character unless it forms endospores under some circumstances like high temperature, limit pH levels or deoxygenized media. THE INHALATION OF ENDOSPORES IS VERY DANGEROUS AND MUST BE AVOIDED IN THE CASE STUDY ON B.subtilis. Decontamination of biological endospores is very important considering the necessary of the safety in synthetic biology laboratories....Fenton reagents, which kill septic microorganisms with mechanism of hydroxyl radicals, were traditionally being used. However; its major ingredient, hydrogen peroxide, was examined and was compared with aqueous dissolved oxygen about their capability of killing the spores. (J. B. Cross, 2003) It is said that in addition to aqueous dissolved oxygen, cupric chloride, ascorbic acid, sodium chloride and a little sulfactant dilution which are used as modified Fenton reagent are more effective on endospores of gram positive bacteria. In contrast; classic Fenton reagent, which possess hydrogen peroxide and copper ion, shows that gram negative bacteria are more vulnerable to this formulation. The mechanism of these dilutions is not well-characterized; however, comparing with other dilutions that include specific oxidizing agents such as ozone, some differences in the images that are gained from effected bacteria are indicated. It is deduced that modified Fenton reagent affects the inside mechanism of the bacteria; although the dilutions with ozone damages the coat of the bacteria. After formation of hydroxyl radicals within the spore, these highly reactive molecules attack either the DNA or enzymes necessary for the spore conversion to a bacterial cell. Further investigations of ion transport into spores and oxidation-reductions with in spores will be needed to determine precisely the mechanism of spore kill under these conditions. The effectiveness of modified Fenton Reagent and the advantages/disadvantages of different Fenton Reagent solutions are characterized during our experiments. For more information about Fenton Reagent experiments, please visit Fenton Reagent Experiments page. Another problem we faced was that the sporicide can also kill gram negative bacteria in their non-endospore forms. Our LALF protein is there for this reason; but we should be sure that gram negative bacteria are terminated just because of LALF protein. To achieve this, we decided to extract the oxygen ingradient which is the main component of killing mechanism in the Fenton reagent. Thus, hydroxyl radical mechanism of their agents would not work and only mechanism on the surface as terminator would be our anti-LPS factor against the gram negative bacteria, especially E.coli in our project. Considering the importance of safe and secure labs in synthetic biology, especially in iGEM, prospective projects including B.subtilis may confront such problems. The need of sporicide will increase in the next iGEM competitions. To have safer labs, we recommend our chemical decontaminator to all iGEM teams. 2011.igem.org/Team:Fatih_Turkey/Sporocide
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 2:08:51 GMT -5
Here is what I've learned: 1. Bacillus produces spores when there is a lack of nutrients, namely oxygen. See Wiki Bacillus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus"Bacillus is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria and a member of the division Firmicutes. Bacillus species can be obligate aerobes or facultative anaerobes, and test positive for the enzyme catalase.[1] Ubiquitous in nature, Bacillus includes both free-living and pathogenic species. Under stressful environmental conditions, the cells produce oval endospores that can stay dormant for extended periods." This is why the formula in the research in the thead entry just above this one is important, it uses aqueous oxygen plus the other stuff to kill the bacteria and endospores. Dissolved Oxygen (DO) is found in microscopic bubbles of oxygen that are mixed in the water and occur between water molecules. 2. Remember the lady who said a year of hyperbaric chamber oxygenation treatments cured her of Morgellons? I wondered at that time what the connection was and why this might be so. Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), is the medical use of oxygen at a level higher than atmospheric pressure. The equipment required consists of a pressure chamber, which may be of rigid or flexible construction, and a means of delivering 100% oxygen. the therapeutic principle of HBOT lies in its ability to drastically increase partial pressure of oxygen in the tissues of the body. The oxygen partial pressures achievable using HBOT are much higher than those achievable while breathing pure oxygen at normobaric conditions (i.e. at normal atmospheric pressure) See Wiki Hyperbaric Medicine, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicinenote also that the treatment costs $1,800 per 90 minutes which made be ask another question: Is there a natural way to get the same treatment? Spas give a hyperbaric mist treatment. Would that be effective? Would swimming in sea water which is rich in oxygen (much sea life) be helpful? Is this why people say they feel better after swimming in the ocean?
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 3:23:04 GMT -5
Bacillus is an obligate aerobe and a facultative anaerobic organism. Why is this important? Because it can exist with or without oxygen. Bacillus can be both. It is facultative anaerobic inside the mite (fermeting) and they switch to obligate aerobe in the human skin. They remove oxygen from the skin and when it is gone, they produce endospores -- fibers.
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 3:34:50 GMT -5
About mustard: It won't burn if its mixed with egg white or flour? Or maybe in a cream like Toni suggested. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mustard Plasters www.metnews.com/articles/2005/reminiscing021705.htmAlso, I learned that the mustard brings blood to the skin so it has more oxygen. Maybe that's why its working for some of us. Its best to be careful using just mustard and water, not to big an area with that cause it will cause a painful blister.
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Post by toni on Dec 31, 2011 8:51:51 GMT -5
Hi Toni I buy from Swanson's all the time so next pay day I will buy that cream. I was checking out the ingredients to see if anything on the list was something I had trouble with in the past or if it was something too chemical to scare me away. I found some very interesting things about the ingredients. Tocopheryl Acetate (E) Tocopherol acetate is not oxidized and can penetrate through the skin to the living cells, where about 5% is converted to free tocopherol and provides beneficial antioxidant effects.[1] Tocopheryl acetate is used as an alternative to tocopherol itself because the phenolic hydroxyl group is blocked, providing a less acidic product with a longer shelf life. It is believed that the acetate is slowly hydrolyzed once it is absorbed into the skin, regenerating tocopherol and providing protection against the sun's ultraviolet rays. Ergocalciferol Ergocalciferol is a form of vitamin D, also called vitamin D2. It is marketed under various names including Deltalin (Eli Lilly and Company), Drisdol (Sanofi-Synthelabo) and Calcidol (Patrin Pharma). It is created from viosterol, which in turn is created when ultraviolet light activates ergosterol (which is found in fungi and named as a sterol from ergot) and so comes only from plants. Phenoxyethanol is an organic chemical compound, a glycol ether often used in dermatological products such as skin creams and sunscreen. It is a colorless oily liquid. It is a bactericide (usually used in conjunction with quaternary ammonium compounds), often used in place of sodium azide in biological buffers as 2-phenoxyethanol is less toxic and non-reactive with copper and lead. It is used in many applications such as cosmetics, vaccines, and pharmaceuticals as a preservative. Hi Lynn, It's interesting looking up the ingredients isn't it? I've always purchased products (lotions or creams) based solely on that. Tocopheryl acetate (vit E) they put in most products (because it's helps topical) applications of most things, "not oxidize" as fast from the air, which the air will cause oxidation, and that's what makes "lotions actually stink if one has had them a long time". They go bad as we call it, but actually it's just because they've oxidized. Like wine for instance. Once a bottle is opened, it must be drunk within a certain time, or it will turn "sour" and stink like vinegar "almost". That's only because it's gotten air in it from opening it, and the air is what breaks down molecules (oxidizes it) and renders it no good any longer. Lots of people think that creams and lotions with Vit E in them is for the skin, but interestingly, it's not. Vit E cannot penetrate the skin, so in all actuality, it only sits ontop the skin, like a barrier, like a saran wrap would, as it doesn't moisturize the skin at all, it only helps hold in the moisture in ones skin that's already there. But the biggest reason they add Vit E into a lotion for example is - it helps the product have a longer "shelf life". Or useful life, because once air gets to it, when we put it on our skin from out of the bottle, it's now exposed to air, and that's exactly what will cause oxidation, so the Vit E helps slow that natural process down (for the lotions sake) to last longer.
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Post by Lynn on Dec 31, 2011 8:52:06 GMT -5
Hi Skizit
I am so glad you posted this. I use Vinegar in my mixture. I will stop using them together. I will have to use the mustard first so it can do its job and then do my vinegar mixture after. The vinegar is my main deterrent from bugs getting me from environment. Gives me a bit of a deprive.
In Light Lynn
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Post by Lynn on Dec 31, 2011 9:13:13 GMT -5
Hi Skizit
wish the chamber was more affordable. With my luck it would make me sick. lol. I wonder if you can buy a portable oxygen mister. I looked and could not find any to buy.
In Light Lynn
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Post by toni on Dec 31, 2011 9:14:37 GMT -5
Hi Toni I am forever grateful for your mustard ideas. Did you know that in olden times when they used Mustard as a police on the chest during flue type and lung type illness. They believed that the mustard will pull the disease right out of the body. So there really is something big to be said about this mustard. I wonder if we should get some sort of cloth and make a mustard police for hot spots. I am going to start eating the dry mustard like you do. I just discovered this morning that the little crystal like pieces I get off the skin. Tiny beige colored crystals that would be full of tiny specks and colored fibers. Mostly clear ones, but with black, blue, red and green. Well I just pulled one off the body and only one speck and one black fiber. If there was any others they were too small to see through the scope at 100x. So I am excited to continue further with the mustard and see what happens. If I could kill half of what left of the disease and be at least parasite free. The rest of the illness would be easy to deal with while trying to get well. I believe I am going to start using my Vita mixer and at breakfast only do blueberries, and pears with different fruits in tiny amounts as a taste breaker. I think I will add organic black strap molasses to that. Then make my lunch time a yogurt session and start buying the decaf non-acidic coffee from Trader Joe's. I think I might do a veggie smoothy for snack on days where I am capable of doing extra. I learned that for fruits to do their jobs they have to be take in alone and not mixed with other food types period what so ever. So see if that changes the tune for me. The holidays and my coffee binging this past three months have take me 3 clicks into the wrong direction. So I have lost ground and want it back. Okay plan of attack decided. Oh as soon as I can squeeze it in I am going to buy Sea Salt or Himalaya salt in more natural form. I am suspicious that my sea salt from the bulk bins is not natural. Too white in color. Happy New Year. TorpedoLynn Hi Lynn, I'm so glad the mustard is helping you too so much. What got me going on with it acutally in the first place was, several years ago, when reading about nematodes - which I posted too - there was an article that said they were spraying golf course grasses with it, because it was non toxic, and they wanted to use something that wouldn't kill the grass either - so they used "mustard" and found that it killed the nematodes (worms) that were chewing on the grass roots - and they safely eliminated the (worm) problems from their golf course grass. So, that "past read" stuck in my head - and that's what prompted me to see what would happen IF I were to put a mustard mix with water, onto Demodex mites. I figured since it killed off nematodes, it must be strong, and when I saw under the scope what it did and how FAST it killed the demodex mites, well... it then became my choice product, since I'd seen those demodex mites die so fast, much faster than what they recommend (which is TTO) and I love the mustard because there's no smell either like the TTO has. After much reading "lately" of all the great benefits of mustard, believe me I'm so impressed with it, I'll eat more hot dogs (just so I can eat more mustard) hehehe ;D I'm even taking cheddar cheese cubes I cut, (just for snacks) and dipping those by toothpicks into a tiny bowl of mustard just as little inbetween meal snacks because that's another way to eat mustard (besides on hot dogs ;D) and really, with the cheddar cubes, it tastes really good. But as with anything, slow and consistent (the body will not disagree), and the benefits are wide and great it's sure appearing, just from mustard. And thank you too for all the extra info on mustard, because I didn't know that either, and I appreciate knowing that about "the mustard". ;D Good luck too with your Vita mixer, sounds like you're on your way to a very stronger "you" ;D
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Post by toni on Dec 31, 2011 9:41:05 GMT -5
Hi toni, You're an absolute angel! I've been going through this thread with a fine-tooth comb, copying and pasting every mention of the word "mustard" to see if I could deduce it myself from the fragmentary clues. I found a recipe from skizit which I missed the first time around (thanks, skizit). And now, finally, I have the secret killer recipe straight from its inventor. I can't thank you enough. Today, for the first time, I am able to ingest the borax water with just mild stomach discomfort. Up to now, I've been applying a 1% topical solution of hydrogen peroxide saturated with borax. I'm supposed to do this several times a day but I just can't manage. It takes me two hours to do my entire body because of my spine and pain problems, and another two hours to shave my head and face. I've had to leave it at just once a day before bedtime. Which is not enough because I'm still getting tickles. Maybe now that I'm drinking it again, I'll have better results... I wanted your mustard recipe because the 100% immediate kill factor appeals to my nature greatly. And I also had an idea I wanted to try: putting dry mustard into the borax/hydrogen peroxide mix. The great thing about hydrogen peroxide is that it binds with the borax and carries it into your skin. Castor oil is another unusual substance in that it penetrates the outer skin layer easily due to its low molecular weight. It also has ricin in its chemical make-up, a poison which may (or may not) affect demodex mites. So perhaps adding the mustard mix to it might also work? But I'm not sure having raw mustard embedded in follicles and sebaceous glands is a great idea. So I'll try your way first and see how I get on. A month seems an awfully long time. Never mind. Head down and get to work, Dave. Thanks again, toni, particularly for being so detailed. Everywhere I go on the internet, I find recipes by people who omit ingredient proportions, treatment frequencies, and durations - all pretty important stuff. Your post is a refreshing change. Kindest regards. David Bourke Hi David, And you're welcome If you read the post above to Lynn, you'll understand why (I just winged the mustard recipe to begin with). There's not really any recipe, but the only thing I advice, since I've: been there done that with the mustard is: not to use too much or it WILL burn the skin. Seriously it does, as that happened to spots on my face when I first applied it (trying it out) to begin with. Not that it didn't heal up in a week, I did - but....I'm trying to help anyone using the dry mustard to not go overboard so they can avoid the pitfalls I experienced during the trials of it to begin with. As for what exactly to mix it with, (imho) whatever works is what's best. ;D Since there's no literature on "using mustard to rid demodex mites" - that I've found anyways, anything that keeps the mustard moist so it remains active is key. Castor oil, I don't know as I've never tried mixing it with that, but that's a great idea too (imho). But whatever it's mixed with, to shower with the mustard mixed into any body wash, is extremely easy to do, and I wish I could tell the world what an EXTRA clean body they'd have (if they only just TRIED it) in the shower, as it's incredibly great imho....besides all the junk it rids. To leave it on the skin (the juice) if you know what I mean... sieving it through a coffee filter too (will give you what I call the mustard juice) which is just water and mustard filtered, (that juice) mixed with a body lotion is pretty darn great to smear all over the skin too and scalp for the day. Then when showering, wash with the mustard body wash too. ;D Here's a tip too. IF anyone wanted to mix some dry mustard with their lotion, and didn't want to "mix" this up daily, then leave your body lotion in the frig. That will help it not go "bad" as fast. See, if one were to mix dry mustard into a whole new bottle of body lotion, I don't believe the shelf life would be very long, because that lotion has preservatives to allow it to be kept unrefrigerated, but adding anything to it, changes it. So refrigerate it, and then (I'd keep that for a week) but no longer IF one wants to "pre-mix" a larger amount. I personally just mix up a fresh batch daily for each showering, and each "lotion rub down" immediately after my showers. I'm doing what Lynn does too with a spritzer bottle for my hair and scalp. I mix in a spritzer: Infusium hair treatment (which is left on) and good for hair with dry mustard, and spritz that on during the daytime and before I go to bed. That way I feel pretty protected and like I'm killing off bacteria and or fungi, besides any possible demodex. Then the next morning, it's the mustard shower wash down, and I feel cleaner than I ever have IN my life actually. PS, just another note - this won't stay in your pores or follicles, and "actually imho" if it were to, say if you had the mustard mixed well with an oil, that would be a good thing. There's one "link" in this thread here, that I posted that actually sells a similar product (with mustard) because it says it cleans out pores and kills bacteria in them. So, I guess I can't see any drawbacks to using it. It's a killer of germs, an instant killer of critters.... and it's easily obtainable, and the best part too is, one only needs to use a tiny bit daily in any product to enable all it's benefits. Heck....I'm patenting it now, hahaha I'm so playing ;D
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Post by Lynn on Dec 31, 2011 9:52:56 GMT -5
Hi Toni I was surfing the net on mustard and found this right in my county where I live. So interesting they are using it on tomato crops to kill fungus or mold. vric.ucdavis.edu/pdf/cover%20crop%20mustard%20ineffective.pdf I did not have time to read it all, but their experiment failed. I wonder if they put too much and burned the plant or not enough or even not enough moisture. Also could be something in the tomato's or the plants themselves deflected the property's of the mustard. You would think tomato worms would had been nil with the mustard treatments on the tomato crops. Did a lot of back and forth to Oakland air port back in the 90s and remembering that I wondered what that mustard colored stuff was all over the fields on plants. In Light Lynn
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Post by toni on Dec 31, 2011 9:53:49 GMT -5
Skizit, Yes, about the bacillus and it's producing spores in that.... I'm going to just "yack for a moment " because this "event" about spores holds in most of the vegetative or mold/fungi life. When air is withheld, plants/fungi/molds will release spores as "they know" they're going to die, and they will automatically do this to keep their species surviving, will do this. Just like withholding water to a flower, it will release it's spores, as to grow new in hopes of survival. All species have this built in (mechanism) which is for survival of the species. I use to watch my house plants "many years ago" and when I was bad/neglectful of them, and didn't water them as often as I should have, it was interesting how they'd develop spores, rather quickly too - and those spores would fall or shoot from the different plants into the pot it was planted, just so the babies/spores would grow or have a chance, whereas the main plant must have felt/sensed it had none as to do this event in the first place. But it was all about (survival of the species) because the already grown plants "knew or felt like they were on their way out"....so they then shot out or dropped spores in hopes to keep their species alive. I believe that's why (the bacillus works the same way). We starve it of what it needs to live/survive, and it WILL produce spores to try it's darnest to live. So, we kill those too, and then we win, as far as that's concerned anyways ;D
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Post by davidbourke on Dec 31, 2011 11:57:23 GMT -5
Hi David You sound like you're in great pain and distress with this. You have mine and I know other's sincerest sympathies. My sincere thanks for your help and sympathy, skizit. It's greatly appreciated. I have studied symptoms including the fibers. Each tickle represents a fiber escaping your skin. Anywhere there are fibers there is bacteria. Jo Simmons, the Morgellons UK Administrator, helped me conduct a test for Morgellons. I exfoliated using a 50/50 mix of plain dish soap and fine table salt, left it on for about 10 minutes, then rinsed. I watched my skin closely for the next hour. No white matter, fibres, or specks of any colour became evident anywhere on my skin. We concluded I didn't have Morgellons. Having said that, I DO have some sort of filamentous involvement which I believe is insect silk. (All red and blue fibres in my images have been traced back to my red and blue t-shirts and towels.) These two, for example, are demodectic plugs with filamentous material: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-18/photos-13/files/page17-1003-full.htmlwww.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-18/photos-13/files/page17-1004-full.htmlThese two are images of dead skin with substantial filament embedding: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-20/photos-6/files/page10-1001-full.htmlwww.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-20/photos-6/files/page10-1000-full.htmlThese two are hair follicle plugs with extensive filament wrapping: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-18/photos-21/files/page26-1041-full.htmlwww.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-18/photos-21/files/page26-1067-full.htmlFinally, the ultimate filamentous object - the cocoon. Note there are no white fabrics in my home. I've found tens of thousands of these, even in my anus: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-20/photos-7/files/page11-1000-full.htmlWhen crushed with a thumbnail, this is what they contain: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-20/photos-7/files/page11-1001-full.htmlAnd this is the intact insect larva I believe is contained in these cocoons (this was taken from from my anus): www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-19/photos-18/files/page23-1000-full.htmlThis is obviously not a demodex mite. I believe it's the grub stage of the tiny fly I refer to on my website (http://www.delusionalinsects.com). Vacuuming used to cause vast clouds of these cocoons to be thrown up into the air such that I had to use a professional particulate mask and goggles. It became so bad I used to wake up unable to breathe, so I started using the mask to sleep as well. Eventually, I cottoned on and dumped all the carpets and replaced them with wood floors. Since then, a huge reduction - but I used to find 5-20 cocoons every night on sweaters that had been rigorously checked in the morning, even ones fresh from the hot dryer. So I still had a small population somewhere. I eventually found them in my kitchen. I got the vast majority of these by gently wafting an A4 sheet of card covered with double-sided sticky tape through the small cloud of flies when it appeared at dusk. Since then, cocoon numbers dropped to 1-3 and over the past two weeks to none at all. I think I reduced the population to below a viable level. Any that made it to my skin are now emerging with holes burned in the cocoon casing through which can be seen the blackened remains of the larva. If you have a tickle in a place where you can see, like your belly, when you start to feel the tickle, use a red colored pen and mark the exact spot. You can actually see the fiber coming out into the colored ink if its large enough. Then look at it with your microscope. You will see it is the spore fibers. Great tip on using a coloured pen. Here's an image of a plug on my abdomen with an extruded filament that I found following a tickle: www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/styled-20/photos-5/files/page9-1004-full.htmlIn my case, I believe the tickles are caused by a number of things: 1. Males looking for females, and virgin females looking for a new home - both of these are surface wanderers. 2. The insects' struggles to exit the sebaceous plug can cause the plug to be ejected onto the skin's surface, thus suddenly registering with the nervous system as a foreign body, a tickle, something to be brushed off. 3. Mite/larval movement within the plug. 4. Mites emerging beneath the layer of dead dry skin, causing it to crack and become loose. Just put a little mustard poltice on the area, just a little mustard in hot water. About the mustard, part of the effect comes from the heat generated. If you have bites, fibers or white matter under your skin, apply a paste of dry mustard mixed in warmest water and use it immediatley. Leave it on the area and it will generate heat and then will cool down. This may also work to remove the white matter because it is formulated to exist at body temperature. This will work to kill the bacteria in the skin and heal up wounds quickly. It soaks the poison right out of a bite. If you do apply a mustard water poltice directly to your skin, just do a small area at a time or it may be too hot for comfort. I'm following some experiments to see if it effects the polymer network under the skin which I think is more delicate and sensitive than the creators would like to think. I intend to supplement the borax/H2O2 topical applications with the total-body mustard regimen which you and toni very kindly provided. Until I see how I get on, I won't try the poultices just yet. My apologies for the length of this reply. All my posts on all the forums I subscribe to seem to develop into "War and Peace." I tend to run off at the fingers. The result of almost three years of isolation. Many thanks again for all your kindness, skizit, and for your diligent and thorough research. Kindest regards. David Bourke
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Post by Lynn on Dec 31, 2011 14:38:58 GMT -5
Hi David
I am so glad you came to share your pics and web page. It is mouth dropping to see someone across the ocean picking off the same stuff off their body as I am.
For a long time I have considered most of my colored fibers to be from clothes I ware except for times when I am not waring those colors and get some lighter shades of the reds, blues, greens, and blacks. I have never seen the white or clear fibers in my skin, but have see them wound up in the little amber crystals sometimes. Like the ones in your pics. A lot of mine look exactly like your pics.
I wonder with all the nano technology if someone made a soup of things and Morgellons being part of it. Like a mutant disease. So I wonder if you still could have Morgellons but a mutated form. I do not think any of us have what the original one was like. Also it could have mutated itself with all the pollutants in our food, water, soil, and air.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the first case was in France in the 1600s. A rich man who dealt in lead mining or something like that had a son who came down with fibers disease and he or those who studied the boy dubbed it Morgellons?
I do not get the tiny glass shards anymore. Do you ever get tiny crystals that feel like glass cutting their way out of your skin. That is so painful. Every aspect of this dang thing is painful. My disease on the bug part started rectally. Or at least that is when I started to notice something was up. The symptom list on Morgs started around the same time as when I thought I had worms. Back then I had no clue it was going to invade all over and I was doing some colon cleanses but depleted all my minerals by not doing enough to replace them. I was being careful not to over do, but it back fired and I did not do enough.
We all seem to attract bugs that live in our areas. I also attract some sort of funeral fly or Nat. For about six months or longer I would cough one out every month to every other month. Most of them white. One black one which was slightly bigger. They were just big enough to see that they had wings as they flew up out of my reach.
Do you have any links to your writings? Music? Would love to see your work. I think we have a small hand full of writers here who would like it also.
In Light Lynn
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Post by davidbourke on Dec 31, 2011 15:10:54 GMT -5
Hi toni,
Thanks a million for the additional mustard tips. I was so excited and impatient to try this that I just went out to my local grocery store to get it.
And they don't stock it - just the pre-mixed stuff in tubes and jars. Which I don't trust because of the shelf-life additives. This being Ireland, everything closes once again for the New Year holiday. So I won't be able to get into a decent supermarket until Tuesday.
This topical borax+H2O2 is drying my already-dried-out skin severely. Ted (whose remedy it is) warns us to expect this and says we can deal with it by using lavender oil (apparently, the demodex mites can't stand the smell of it). Unfortunately, he doesn't say how long after the borax application one should use the oil.
The only lavender oil I can find here is the essential oil, so I'll almost fill a spare 1oz homeopathy dropper bottle with either olive oil or sweet almond oil, then top it up with about 20 drops of the lavender oil and see how I get on. I'll try applying it immediately after the borax has air-dried.
Sitting here typing this, it's just dawned on me how trying to deal with all this has turned into much more than a full-time job, from morning till night. And how sick and tired of it all I am. If only I could sleep properly, if only this unrelenting pain would ameliorate even a little, and if only my stupid spine wasn't so unenthusiastic about doing its job properly...
Enough moaning from me. Thanks again for your kindness and help, toni.
Without the wisdom, experience, and compassion of fellow infestation-sufferers, I wouldn't have a single soul to help or advise me, not even the brother and sister who overruled my wish that my mother NOT be admitted to that dreadful hospital, and neither of whom have had to deal with the awful consequences.
No, they so wish to believe I'm delusional (because the doctors are always right) that they won't even visit my website. So yet another "old saw" bites the dust - blood is NOT thicker than water.
So my warmest thanks and kindest regards to you, toni, and to all my true brothers and sisters in suffering. My love to you, and you are all in my prayers.
David Bourke
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 15:57:31 GMT -5
Hi David, Jo was pulling your leg. Who decided that soap and salt was a test for Morgellons? that is highly insulting. Less is likely to come from your skin after applying salt and soap. Identifying bacteria, fungi, their spores and fibers is not done with salt and soap. As you said, the bugs are inside your skin and openings and require a scraping, sporalation or cultivation to identify them. Don't let the fake authorities lie to you. They just want to make you look ridiculous and proper tests are not being done.
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Post by skizit on Dec 31, 2011 17:01:20 GMT -5
torpedolynn, I went to Wallyworld and checked out some clothes. A purple shirt had red, blue, teal, white and black fibers all over it. i check another shirt and it had the fibers too, big balls of them, not the color of the shirt. I looked at some T-shirts at a tourist destinatino and they did not have any of these fibers.
Maye body heat get the fibers to empty their contents onto the skin where it is absorbed. People have no idea what happened.
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Post by mfromcanada on Dec 31, 2011 17:48:33 GMT -5
Here is what I've learned: 1. Bacillus produces spores when there is a lack of nutrients, namely oxygen. See Wiki Bacillus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus"Bacillus is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria and a member of the division Firmicutes. Bacillus species can be obligate aerobes or facultative anaerobes, and test positive for the enzyme catalase.[1] Ubiquitous in nature, Bacillus includes both free-living and pathogenic species. Under stressful environmental conditions, the cells produce oval endospores that can stay dormant for extended periods." This is why the formula in the research in the thead entry just above this one is important, it uses aqueous oxygen plus the other stuff to kill the bacteria and endospores. Dissolved Oxygen (DO) is found in microscopic bubbles of oxygen that are mixed in the water and occur between water molecules. 2. Remember the lady who said a year of hyperbaric chamber oxygenation treatments cured her of Morgellons? I wondered at that time what the connection was and why this might be so. Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), is the medical use of oxygen at a level higher than atmospheric pressure. The equipment required consists of a pressure chamber, which may be of rigid or flexible construction, and a means of delivering 100% oxygen. the therapeutic principle of HBOT lies in its ability to drastically increase partial pressure of oxygen in the tissues of the body. The oxygen partial pressures achievable using HBOT are much higher than those achievable while breathing pure oxygen at normobaric conditions (i.e. at normal atmospheric pressure) See Wiki Hyperbaric Medicine, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicinenote also that the treatment costs $1,800 per 90 minutes which made be ask another question: Is there a natural way to get the same treatment? Spas give a hyperbaric mist treatment. Would that be effective? Would swimming in sea water which is rich in oxygen (much sea life) be helpful? Is this why people say they feel better after swimming in the ocean?
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Post by mfromcanada on Dec 31, 2011 18:07:29 GMT -5
- I had 7 hyperbaric oxygen treatments and I did not enjoy them and they did not help me. Here is a link to the place I went and the owner is a super nice man and he will do whatever he can to help you. www.hyperbaric-care.com/hyperbaric_victoria.htm- Re: Swimming in the ocean from skizit. I think it could have something to do with walking on the beach as it brings in more negative ions. Hymalayan salt lamps do the same thing in your home. I keep one on most of the time. Negative ions are good for us. - Kelzyme is good for us -Everwall Green is a product you put on your walls which absorbs vocs and puts negative ions into your house. I have seen this product and it is amazing. I don's sell any of these products, just trying to help.
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