Hydrogen Peroxide Myth

Had to start a new thread on this topic because it hits close to home, i know some people who are important to me who drink diluted hydrogen peroxide. in my opinion, i think its dangerous. i think the benefits are definitely not clear, and not proven, so it deserves to be discussed. heres what i wrote in a previous post:

ok, lets discuss...........

 

I heard peroxide is the only thing that kills certain viruses.....Heard this a long time ago.....I never drink it, though and I don't have any viruses.

 

and that could be 100% true, but as it says on the bottle "for external use only".

 

remember bleach can also kill viruses

 

I can't say I would ever ingest hydrogen peroxide. But I use it regularly in my ears. Too clean out ear wax, to clean new piercings, I've had a number of ear infections and I always use a warm cloth and put it over my ear then use hydrogen peroxide. Also if I think I'm getting sick I sometimes put a tiny bit in my ear. I think external use it is fine and maybe a bit in your ear.
Why would you ingest in the first place? What is it suppose to do?

 

Which is why most people have it in their drinking water unless you are on a private well system.

 

I heard that peroxide is the only thing that kills aids...heard this from a Dr. talking to someone else at a convention once...and never forgot it....

 

ive drank a few caps full that shit over the course a few weeks.. blah blah bullshit.. I rather drink my own urine..

 

never did that. i remember my brother was a little kid and when I was not looking, he refilled a can of soda of mine with his urine...and I took a drink and just about died....LOL

what a little prankster he was.....

 

why?

 

why what? .. i heard the h2o2 was good for the ms. didnt help any..

 

It'll make you puke.

Know why? cause it's ripping up cells like mad, I'd guess.

Gargle with it, you can taste dead flesh pretty clearly...

People have died from treatments with it, there's no reason to take it internally. Yeah, it might kill some stuff, but in practice, will not - it's not like it disinfects your body, it just rips up everything and probably depletes your reactase.... don't know how fast you make that one, or what else it does.

You can't approach potentially very dangerous or deadly health related practices like some sort of superstition - that's how you end up dead or addled.

 

has anyone read any studies that found any positive effects?

 

molecules like hydrogen peroxide and other peroxides are exactly what antioxidants are for protecting against

 

I only use it for cuts that start to infect, which is very rare... The cuts aren't rare, infection is rare as my antibodies normally take care of anything that comes down the road. I'd never use it internally

 

This is what wikipedia has to say about it.

 

thats what i dont understand:

the body already takes care of this perfectly. under normal conditions, our blood is already close to 100% oxygenated.

 

I don't know what you don't understand.

Supporters of hydrogen peroxide therapy base their support on a notion of benefiting the body through providing additional oxygen.

Pretty much everyone with a medical degree who is not insane says this is nonsense at best.

 

i dont understand why people say there are benefits of additional oxygenation of the body, i agree its non-sense.

 

some people tend to absorb a lot of info uncritically, or they tend mistrust anything mainstream, or assume that anything that is not mainstream must be right, or they take a thimble full of scientific information and assume that it's sufficient basis for a medical treatment

I think that there are some good alternative medicine treatments out there, but this isn't one of them