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Post by discovery on Sept 24, 2006 21:17:50 GMT -5
Has anyone ever used Tetmosol soap? I've been dealing with what I thought to be scabies since May. Thought I had it licked at one point, but it's back! I'm not so sure it's scabies or some other type of parasite. But anyway while searching for scabies treatments, I found a derm site that had a case report of a guy with scabies who was told to use Tetmosol soap and then apply the permethrin cream. He was cleared of the scabies. I had never heard of this soap so I googled it and found that it is manufactured in Africa and is an antiscabietic soap. If it works for scabies, maybe it would work for other skin parasites. It's worth a try. I found it at three different African grocery stores in our area, so it's readily found and it was cheap...$1.99 a bar. Apparently it is included in free health-care packages given out to people in Third World countries to prevent and treat scabies. There's also an ointment called Toto cream also from Africa that I haven't found yet, but plan on continuing to look for it. Why not?!?
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Post by life on Sept 25, 2006 4:00:42 GMT -5
Smart thinking!
I use hair care products made by indigeonous people in a Sounth American jungle -- they got plenty of paras and bugs in the jungle!
So, this soap sounds like a winner maybe.
let usknow how it works
life
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Post by discovery on Sept 25, 2006 10:47:36 GMT -5
I don't want to praise this soap too much yet... I want to give it a little longer before I'm convinced. I've been "burned" before when I thought I had something that worked! However... I used it last night and it really helped with the skin sensations I was dealing with!! I even used it to shampoo my hair rather than the tea tree shampoo that I normally use. So far so good, but time will tell (as I have realized through this battle thus far) is ALWAYS the case.
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Post by DOCP on Sept 25, 2006 15:25:17 GMT -5
Discovery - "Why not?" Absolutely! Thank you for telling us and trying. After reading this it made me think whenever a certain product or treatment regime is being tried... we should ask that 4 or 5 volunteers try it as well and agree to report findings (improvements, side effects), after 1st day, 3rd, 1st week, etc. Perhaps a sampling of 10 ppl. is better for indicating general results. In any case, it will allow others to save money and spare them from adverse side effects, and it will be documented, and we know that it's not just one persons experience/opinion/result. Especially considering that in a product that is 90% effective.... that one person could be the remaining 10% and we may never know otherwise as we skip over a possible remedy. I'd volunteer for your product committee for Tetmosol tho Africa is not "readily" accessible. Which leads me to ask... Are you in Africa and you're saying "African grocery stores" because you're not from there? Or you live in U.S. and you're referring to specialty ethnic stores?
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Post by discovery on Sept 25, 2006 17:13:45 GMT -5
Africa is not accessible to me either! I live in Houston, Texas and maybe it's since it's a larger city, but there are several ethnic specialty groceries and markets in the city. That made it easy to check and see if any of them carried the soap. Surprisingly, the three I checked with ALL had the soap and one was a combination type store that sells African and Middle Eastern products. I had seen on line that it can also be ordered from a web site that sells Nigerian products in the Atlanta area. What was interesting is that at one of the stores, there were several boxes of different soaps from Africa, but the Tetmosol box only had one bar left in the box. Obviously, it sells! In the fine print on the paper wrapping of the soap, it specifically states "Use in place of toilet soap for both prevention and treatment of scabies". The ingredients listed are monosulfiram 5%, citronella oil and toilet soap base. The woman who checked me out at the combo store told me she would check on the Toto cream with her Nigerian supplier since she knew it was also a Nigerian product. She mentioned that she had other people who had asked about that cream and when I asked, it made her want to stock it. Probably if you google African stores in whatever city you live in or the closet large city, you will get a list of stores. Any one of them that sells foods and not clothing should have it. I think it would definitely be interesting to get feedback from others who try it. If it works for me on a regular basis after using it for a while, I'll be going back to stock up!
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Post by belikewater on Sept 25, 2006 18:23:57 GMT -5
Thank you much for this information. I think we need to use products from the "third world" and strategies and products our ancestors used. We do not give them enough credit for how smart they are.
In researching the historical "Morgellons" in southern France, the motheres used milk or honey mixed with certain flower blossoms to drive the 'fibers' from the backs of the babies and children. I suspect those flowers were high in salicylic acid.
Also, re: the salt- Vit. C cure, many times in history salt was restricted in the diet. Now days it is suppose to be healthy to have low-salt. In other times salt was highly taxed and the poor could not get it. Parasite diseases always broke out.
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Post by discovery on Sept 25, 2006 19:53:16 GMT -5
You're welcome! Hopefully, this will turn out to be a good find! You know I told you about the Toto cream too and I plan on looking further for this, particularly after reading the case study mentioned below. There is apparently a Toto soap too. Hopefully the sales clerk at the store where I bought the Tetmosol will be able to get the Toto cream from her supplier because it is also used for scabies and other skin conditions like fungus, etc. I don't know the ingredients in these but apparently they are successful in treating scabies. The Tetmosol is listed as a parasiticide so maybe that would be broad-spectrum coverage of the little "son'ches" that cause so much grief, whatever they may be!! The Toto cream may be good for the lesions and bumps. Here's the study on the efficacy of the Toto products. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12656456&dopt=AbstractIn case anyone decides to try the Tetmosol, here is the drug info on the product. home.intekom.com/pharm/zeneca/tetm.htmlI agree... there is a lot more effort put into treatment and research for antiparasitics in third world countries. Here in the U.S., they think we are immune and it's not a priority. There's a "hot-dog" infectious disease specialist here in Texas who has written many articles on infectious disease issues and parasites and I read one of his articles where he felt that not enough time and money are spent coming up with new antiparasitics by the drug companies and our researchers. He was quite pleased about a drug that shows promise in the arsenal against parasites. He went on to say that there are literally millions of Americans walking around with a high parasite burden, yet not enough is being done to address the problems of outdated and ineffective medications to treat the infections that are becoming more difficult to treat. When I was a kid, it was routine to be dewormed every year as preventative treatment. Nowadays, that's not the case. That's a mistake in my opinion!
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Post by belikewater on Sept 26, 2006 19:50:04 GMT -5
Also, to goose the conspiracy theory thingie, I noticed 'Cargill" company is one of the largest salt producers in the world. Like I said, historically low salt intake leads to disease.
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