Antibiotic Alternatives

Death by Sepsis Despite the widespread belief that antibiotics still work, even if not a good idea, almost a quarter of a million people a year die in the USA alone from widespread sepsis. The best modern antibiotics didn’t save them. That’s a LOT of people. Worldwide, that figure rises to tens of millions of people a year, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA). That makes sepsis the likely leading cause of death today, according to Konrad Reinhart, M.D., Chairman of the GSA and director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Jena, Germany. The fact is, sepsis kills regardless of age, ethnicity, location and access to care. It strikes swiftly and strikes hard. Antibiotics are failing. No new ones are coming along or ever likely to. “Developing new therapies for sepsis has been particularly challenging, with more than 25 unsuccessful drug trials,” says Jonathan S. Boomer, of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. 750,000 Americans each year contract sepsis and 225,00 die. That’s almost one third. The problem is the intense inflammatory response that has become poetically christened the ‘cytokine storm.’ Patients with sepsis may present with fever, shock, altered mental status, and organ dysfunction. It’s all due to bacteria running riot in the patient’s body.

Death by Sepsis Despite the widespread belief that antibiotics still work, even if not a good idea, almost a quarter of a million people a year die in the USA alone from widespread sepsis. The best modern antibiotics didn’t save them. That’s a LOT of people. Worldwide, that figure rises to tens of millions of people a year, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA). That makes sepsis the likely leading cause of death today, according to Konrad Reinhart, M.D., Chairman of the GSA and director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Jena, Germany. The fact is, sepsis kills regardless of age, ethnicity, location and access to care. It strikes swiftly and strikes hard. Antibiotics are failing. No new ones are coming along or ever likely to. “Developing new therapies for sepsis has been particularly challenging, with more than 25 unsuccessful drug trials,” says Jonathan S. Boomer, of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. 750,000 Americans each year contract sepsis and 225,00 die. That’s almost one third. The problem is the intense inflammatory response that has become poetically christened the ‘cytokine storm.’ Patients with sepsis may present with fever, shock, altered mental status, and organ dysfunction. It’s all due to bacteria running riot in the patient’s body.

UV Light as a massive whole-body antibiotic Back when (in the days before antibiotics) there were many treatments which worked for bacterial and other infections; most have been forgotten. One almost lost technique is the use of ultra violet light irradiation of the blood to kill pathogens and even cancer cells. This is a version of what we technically call plasmapheresis or, in Europe “auto sanguis” therapy (meaning “own blood” therapy). Blood is taken outside the body, treated and then returned to the body. You can do a number of things to blood while it is outside the body that you could not do while it is inside… For example, you can expose it to ozone and so enrich it with oxygen. A high local concentration of oxygen is known to provide a hostile environment for cancer cells. Some deadly organisms, too, like the gas gangrene bacteria (Clostridium welchii), are killed by a high-oxygen environment. Even viruses succumb. But here I am describing the use of ultra-violet light to treat infections. UV is accepted as a sterilizing agent; city water supply is treated with it; indeed, you may have a UV unit fitted to your spa or pool. There is no scientific argument over its cleansing capabilities. It zaps pathogens! It’s also destructive to humans (sunburn!) but that problem is solved by focusing the UV on blood which is OUTSIDE the body. We call this ultra-violet blood irradiation or UVBI for short. It’s also sometimes known as photoluminescence. The treated blood is returned to the body, where it spreads its good message throughout the tissues. Surprisingly, only about 5% of the total blood volume needs to be treated in this way. This small proportion spreads through the entire body and works its magic, in much the same way a therapeutic drug gets everywhere. UVBI kills viruses, parasites and bacteria and was popular in the 1930s for polio and other viral infections. The reason for its use is simple enough: it works! But then it became unpopular, as it was gradually sidelined by mass vaccination programs, which were believed to work, despite evidence to the contrary. Finally, UV blood therapy fell into disrepute, except among dedicated holistic physicians. That’s a great pity because it is very safe (no side effects ever recorded, when used properly), highly effective and cheap to do. It’s so easy, as a matter of fact, that it’s probably something a lay persons, with the right equipment and proper  instructions, can administer it to themselves. 

UV Light as a massive whole-body antibiotic Back when (in the days before antibiotics) there were many treatments which worked for bacterial and other infections; most have been forgotten. One almost lost technique is the use of ultra violet light irradiation of the blood to kill pathogens and even cancer cells. This is a version of what we technically call plasmapheresis or, in Europe “auto sanguis” therapy (meaning “own blood” therapy). Blood is taken outside the body, treated and then returned to the body. You can do a number of things to blood while it is outside the body that you could not do while it is inside… For example, you can expose it to ozone and so enrich it with oxygen. A high local concentration of oxygen is known to provide a hostile environment for cancer cells. Some deadly organisms, too, like the gas gangrene bacteria (Clostridium welchii), are killed by a high-oxygen environment. Even viruses succumb. But here I am describing the use of ultra-violet light to treat infections. UV is accepted as a sterilizing agent; city water supply is treated with it; indeed, you may have a UV unit fitted to your spa or pool. There is no scientific argument over its cleansing capabilities. It zaps pathogens! It’s also destructive to humans (sunburn!) but that problem is solved by focusing the UV on blood which is OUTSIDE the body. We call this ultra-violet blood irradiation or UVBI for short. It’s also sometimes known as photoluminescence. The treated blood is returned to the body, where it spreads its good message throughout the tissues. Surprisingly, only about 5% of the total blood volume needs to be treated in this way. This small proportion spreads through the entire body and works its magic, in much the same way a therapeutic drug gets everywhere. UVBI kills viruses, parasites and bacteria and was popular in the 1930s for polio and other viral infections. The reason for its use is simple enough: it works! But then it became unpopular, as it was gradually sidelined by mass vaccination programs, which were believed to work, despite evidence to the contrary. Finally, UV blood therapy fell into disrepute, except among dedicated holistic physicians. That’s a great pity because it is very safe (no side effects ever recorded, when used properly), highly effective and cheap to do. It’s so easy, as a matter of fact, that it’s probably something a lay persons, with the right equipment and proper  instructions, can administer it to themselves. 

Doctors aren’t writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children’s respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, so trumpets the Journal of the American Medical Association. I thought, Hooray! They’ve been reading my report How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics. But actually, they are just prescribing something else instead! The researchers […]

Doctors aren’t writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children’s respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, so trumpets the Journal of the American Medical Association. I thought, Hooray! They’ve been reading my report How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics. But actually, they are just prescribing something else instead! The researchers […] The post Antibiotic Prescriptions DOWN! appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.