
Dead, as in destroyed by ourselves. Like suicide out of ignorance.
Because if we contract a bug that resists antibiotics, dying is a high probability.
We take the medicine, hoping it’s going to work – and it does nothing at all. We get sicker and sicker – and either our bodies are strong enough to fight it off by themselves, or we get unlucky.
Which means a whole attitude change to everything we do. And a level of watchfulness we’re not even close to right now.
Rediscover hygiene
Take personal hygiene. Keeping ourselves clean as much as possible, so germs don’t get a chance. Hands especially, the easiest way for germs to enter our mouths, or our eyes. Kinda basic, but just suppose your life depended on it – because it does.
If antibiotics don’t work – and ask any Doc, we’re getting close to that – any germ you catch is free to run riot inside your body. Unstoppable, unless you avoid it in the first place.
Duh, soap and water is not rocket science.
Same principle applies to anything you eat. Is it fresh, is it clean, is it germ-free? Don’t eat it if it’s not – because again, if you get sick, antibiotics won’t save you.
Rediscover awareness
Same thing, even if you’re just walking down the street. Be careful, avoid accidents.
If a bus hits you and you need surgery, antibiotics won’t stop infection. The bugs are resistant and you’re a goner – unless your Doc has a brilliant Plan B.
So be super-observant, all the time. Watch what you’re doing. Avoid accidents. So you don’t get cuts, you don’t get bruised, you don’t break a leg – and you don’t needlessly breathe in someone else’s germs.
Takes all the fun out of life, huh? Or kinda demonstrates how careless we normally are.
Because pretty well every ailment or accident that happens to us is preventable – if we see it coming in the first place and avoid it.
Rediscover survival
Exactly what we must learn to do, if we are to survive without antibiotics.
And yes, we’re going to have to.
Because bacteria keep evolving all the time – have done so successfully for billions of years. So even if medical science comes up with the most amazing antibiotic yet, give it five years and bacteria will always find a way to become immune to it.
Which applies to all our drugs now, and any new ones we might develop in the future – fighting off bacteria is a never-ending battle against a constantly moving target.
Ah, but antibiotics are not the only way to kill bacteria.
They might be the most effective INSIDE your body, but OUTSIDE there are options.
The super germ-killer
And OUTSIDE is where we can get to them before they get to us.
About the most effective way is to oxidise them. Shove oxygen atoms at them that rip their cell structure apart and destroy their DNA.
Which is what hydrogen peroxide does – particularly airborne IONISED hydrogen peroxide.
Composed only of oxygen and water, hydrogen peroxide is the same all-natural germ fighter the body makes for itself. And the concentration we’re talking about is a low, non-toxic and non-corrosive 6%, the same as you can buy in the chemist for bleaching your hair – though the way we use it makes it way more potent.
It’s therefore a good idea to vacate any room being treated – though it’s environmentally friendy, the stuff can cause irritation to the eyes and throat.
Why ionise? Because that enables a very mild solution, AND changes a mild and harmless solution into a super-performing giant.
Plasma performance
Remember the three states of matter: solid, liquid, gas?
Well, ionising a dry mist of hydrogen peroxide metamorphoses it to a fourth state – from a gas to a plasma. This charges it electrostatically, so that all the particles physically repel each other – they spread actively in all directions, forcing themselves to fill the airspace, hard up against every surface, and deep into every crack and crevice. Complete and penetrating dispersal everywhere.
The change to a plasma also releases MORE antimicrobials – hydroxyl radicals, reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species, ozone (a more voracious oxidiser than hydrogen peroxide), and ultraviolet.
The negatively charged hydrogen particles reach out and grab positively charged viruses and bacteria like a magnet grabs iron filings. Locked together, contact time needs only to be a few seconds and the deed is done. ALL viruses and bacteria are destroyed to a Sterility Assurance Level of Log 6.
Uh huh. You’ve taken precautions to protect yourself, the hydrogen peroxide protects your surroundings – the room you’re in is now completely sterile. All with just one button push on a Hypersteriliser machine.
Essential?
Rescued, safe, healthy
Hang on to your hat, because it’s going to be. Already the medical heavies reckon we could be only months away from total antibiotics failure.
Except we’re ahead of the game, right? Forewarned is fore-armed.
So no, we’re not dead yet. We’re going to get clean away with it.
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Originally posted 2016-05-18 16:37:45.