Hydrogen peroxide therapy for the flu

Controversial

Hydrogen peroxide therapy is controversial. It has been described by opponents as dangerous and foolhardy. At the same time, proponents declare it to be cheap, effective and absolutely safe.

The controversy, however, stems mainly from the uses of hydrogen peroxide as an intravenous infusion, where it is fed directly into the bloodstream. In 2005, a patient in North Carolina, USA, died from internal bleeding after receiving this form of hydrogen peroxide therapy for multiple sclerosis.

Even then, there is debate about whether hydrogen peroxide actually caused the death. More than 100,000 such treatments are administered each year in the US without any adverse effects. The one death was an isolated case and it is not clear if it was caused directly by hydrogen peroxide, or by the interaction of hydrogen peroxide with other drugs.

In any case, we are not concerned here with hydrogen peroxide therapy administered as intrevenous infusions. As a form of flu prevention and flu treatment, hydrogen peroxide, in a very dilute 3% solution is simply dripped into the ear. This hydrogen peroxide in the ear treatment is said to work about 80 percent of the time, especially in the early stages of the flu. It is absolutely safe and can be safely applied on children and infants.

This is all you need to do:

1. Buy a bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide from a pharmacy. It costs only a couple of dollars (about S$3 in Singapore).
2. Buy a dropper. I bought one reently for just 70 cents.
3. Using the dropper, drop one or two drops of hydrogen peroxide into one ear. You will hear a bubbling noise as the hydrogen peroxide reacts with any liquid in your ear, to produce water and oxygen. Wait a few minutes for the bubbling noise to stop, drain and repeat with the other ear.

That's all. If you administer this form of hydrogen peroxide therapy in the early stages of a flu, you have good chances of preventing it. If you already have a full-blown flu, do this a few times a day and it would speed up your recovery.

The idea behind this hydrogen peroxide in the ear treatment stems from a theory proposed by Dr Richard Simmons in 1928 that colds and flus spread only through the ear canal, where they multiply and spread to other parts of the body. This goes against mainstream medical thinking, which believes that colds and flus are spread through the mouth, nostrils, eyes, etc.

Dr Simmons' ideas were dismissed. However, during the 1930s, German doctors reported high success rates in treating flu patients with hydrogen peroxide therapy but their reports have also been ignored, especially by the English-speaking world.

Drinking hydrogen peroxide

Another way to treat the flu is to drink diluted hydrogen peroxide.

For this, you should rightly use food grade hydrogen peroxide. However, this comes in very strong concentrations of 35%, compared with just 3% in the case of pharmaceutical grade hydrogen peroxide. Food grade hydrogen peroxide is difficult to obtain and, because of the high concentration, requires very careful handling. It can burn the skin. And it must be very highly diluted before it is safe to drink.

Ordinary hydrogen peroxide bought from the pharmacy contains chemical stabilisers that are toxic, so rightly speaking you should not drink it,

Personally, I make a compromise here because I take very very little of it - just a few drops mixed in a large jar of water. And since I don't get the flu all that often, I might take it at most once or twice a year.

Moreover, I figure that I would be taking a lot more toxic chemicals - larger amounts and higher toxicity - if I go for a flu shot. So even drinking a bit of diluated, pharmaceutical grade hydrogen peroxide is, in my opnion, a good alternative to the flu shot, which is ineffective and puts you at risks of dangerous side effects.

Just a few precautions to note about drinking hydrogen peroxide:

1. Do not drink hydrogen peroxide just before bedtime, as the production of oxygen might keep you alert and prevent you from sleeping. And when you have the flu, sleep is the one thing that you need most.
   
   
2. Do not drink hydrogen peroxide if you had an organ transplant. It might stimulate your immune response and cause you to reject the transplanted organ.
   
   
3. And make sure it is highly diluted. Even with 3% hydrogen peroxide, you should not take more than a few drops in, say, a big jug of water or other liquids.

Nothing is guaranteed, of course. If you have a bad flu, hydrogen peroxide therapy alone is not likely to be enough.

But for flu prevention and for flu treatment in the early stages, hydrogen peroxide therapy, combined with other natural ways of preventing the flu, will give you very good chances of success.