I'm tired! Not like I need a nap, but just tired....
Wondering, will there ever be a time where I'm not slathering my girls with lotions and remedies, and bandaging their spots, or giving them supplements at every meal, or washing laundry all day? Will there ever be a time where we can use a towel more than once before it goes in the laundry, or clothes can be worn a second day or jammies a second night? A day where they can play dress up without the entire dress up box full of clothes having to be washed? Will there be a day like this?
A day when I can let the girls play in the woods without knowing that we will have to go home for a breathing treatment and Benedryl? A day where they can go to their friends houses that have pets and play while being able to breath at the same time? Will there be a day when they can eat what everyone else eats without itching and pain and rashes? A day where we can attend a Christmas party and not cringe when we see the bowl full of nuts on the food table? Will there be a day like this?
Will there be a day where eczema, allergies, asthma, and MRSA are not on our minds and in our actions? A day they can go to the pool and not be embarrassed by the many scars on their legs from their affliction? A day where they can go to bed WITHOUT a shower...where I can just say "girls, get ready for bed" and they don't require mom's eye and help for draining, band-aids, lotions and medicines? Will there be a day like this?
Honestly, I don't know if there will be.... I have to preach the truth to myself. I don't know how long these struggles will go on. I DO know that there will always be something. We will always have some struggle, some challenge in our lives. We live in a fallen world and it makes me long for heaven! I am so grateful that it's not a fatal illness or accident that we are having to live through. Grateful that we don't live in a 3rd world country where we wouldn't have access to healthcare. I am grateful that despite these obstacles, I have happy little ladies that love life and give me much joy. It's become normal for them, they know nothing different. I am grateful that one day, I will see my Savior face to face, and he will wipe away all the tears and pain and sadness and we will never again go through struggles and challenges, but will be filled with joy we can't even imagine! Most of all, I am grateful that he changed my heart to see the truth. That I once looked upon Him as a story and mocked him, but now I know He is so much more, and i am grateful that I am going through this knowing Him, because I don't know how we'd get through it without Him.
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I found something that seems to work.
When you are in the shower, turn off the water & rub a slurry paste of baking soda (mixed with some water) all over your body.
Just stand there until it airdries back into powder caked on your skin (maybe 15-20 min).
I think if you do this daily for a week or 2 in a row, it could possibly clear it off your skin!
I pray for us all. THANK YOU GOD!
Ever heard of bacteriophages?
They are basically specific bacteria-eating viruses. Commies have used them with great success because they can target only specific bacteria instead of broad spectrum destruction.
Novolytics is currently working on a cream which they say could combat MRSA. Inserted into the nose, where MRSA bacteria frequently linger, it is hoped the cream could combat more than 15 strains of the condition.
But it still needs to be subjected to two phases of clinical testing, and even if these proved it successful, it may take as many as five years for the cream to hit the market.
Separately, researchers are working with the Eliava Institute in Georgia, where an MRSA fighting phage has been developed, to see if it could have applications in the UK.
Maybe if we write to our Congresspeople we can allow experimental availability or speed up trials..
This clinic offers phage treatment for MRSA:
Staphylococcus spp. (more than one species) including Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Community Associated Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA).
While bacteria may develop resistance to phages, it is incomparably easier to develop new phages than new antibiotics. In nature, as bacteria evolve resistance, relevant phages will evolve in concert. While this adaptability is most often played out in nature, it may also be harnessed in the laboratory. A few weeks are needed to obtain new phages for a newly-emerging strain of resistant bacteria. This is in favorable, sharp contrast to the seven to twelve years required to discover and develop a new antibiotic and get it approved by the FDA in the US. In other words, when a highly resistant bacteria subspecies (known in the press as a "superbug’) appears, a "superphage" may be readily isolated and produced against it.
More general info here on phage therapy...
DRINK GREEN TEA! It boosts the effectiveness of any meds while reducing the resistance of the Staph:
"We tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease causing micro-organisms belonging to two different classes," says Dr Mervat Kassem from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Alexandria University in Egypt. "In every single case green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics. For example the killing effect of chloramphenicol was 99.99% better when taken with green tea than when taken on its own in some circumstances."
Green tea also made 20% of drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to one of the cephalosporin antibiotics. These are important antibiotics that new drug resistant strains of bacteria have evolved to resist.
The results surprised the researchers, showing that in almost every case and for all types of antibiotics tested, drinking green tea at the same time as taking the medicines seemed to reduce the bacteria's drug resistance, even in superbug strains, and increase the action of the antibiotics. In some cases, even a low concentration of green tea was effective.
Just a note - that baking sode paste felt good at first, but I don't think it had many lasting effects.
And in other news - this is interesting:
At selected times over 8 weeks, the coupons were subcultured and surviving bacteria were counted. mrsa survivors remained at detectable levels for 8 weeks on acrylic fingernails, 6 weeks on computer keyboard covers and 5 days on bed linen.
Maybe it was just harder to culture off of fabric? Dunno, but hard surfaces are definitely something that need to be cleaned well.
Reading your post I am empathizing and aching along with you. There are days when our flesh fails us and we aren't strong as we'd like to be but He is ready to lift us back up...My sweet 8yr. old boy has been dealing with severe eczema since birth and all the secondary infections that come with it. I Know...You articulated what goes through my mind so often. God Bless...
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