My daughter who is 62 has just been in hospital with her third episode of sepsis. She wrote "The registrar looked at my Apple Watch ecg from just before I went back to A&E last Tuesday. It shows that I had atrial fibrillation. She said that it isn’t uncommon for this to happen when people are unwell with a high fever. However, if it starts happening when I’m well, it will need treating."
She also wrote "I’ve got an echocardiogram on the 18th as they want to rule out endocarditis - I’ve now been treated for sepsis three times in three years and there is a possibility that bacteria has seeded in my body"
I think that she needs to actively try to build up her immune system. Apart from Vit D which has helped me, do you have any suggestions that I could pass on.
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Sorry to hear that your daughter is having this worry.
Basophils in blood fight infection. I noticed after a recent blood test that my level was 0. Have looked up how to increase and it advises drinking green tea. I hate green tea but have found an organic loose leaf one that contains lemon too. Quite like this. It's made by Clipper.
She is coming over today to see the new house. I've got an unopened box of green tea which I will give her. But it may be well beyond its best before date!
Can’t think tea can go off! And Dr Michael Mosely advised having three cups of it a day! We do and don’t find it has much more of a strong taste than other herbal teas and certainly nothing nasty.
Oh, you don't know my family! Even my daughter-in-law this week was trying to get me to throw something away. The box of tea has been sitting on my shelf for four years and I'm sure it will be fine. If she doesn't want it I might finally get round to trying it.
Poor thing. And I can see that an acute event of sepsis might fire AF. I didn't know sepsis could seed though. When COVID first came around I started this regime:
High potency D3 with vitamin k (about 4 squirts in the morning)
Magnesium taurate twice a day (biocare is reliable)
Vit B12 liquid form
Selenium twice a day
High potency vit C twice a day (which if I think anything nasty is starting up I increase to 3)
I also take CQ10 twice a day but that's because of the AF.
Tell her to buy good quality brands. Yes, it's expensive, but my immune system has been well behaved for the last 5 years. I think I had COVID first strain early on, but I got over it and it was weird but nothing like as bad as for some I know.
Also wanted to say - get them to check for rareish herpes variant called cytomegolovirus. Yes, it's a thing and it can lurk in the body and then pop up. It's apparently very nasty but can be treated. Son of friend developed it whilst in hospital, which is how I know.
Bit of a side note, Dr Paul Merik has a good treatment protocol for sepsis if you search online (or go through FLCCC),
I have it printed out “just in case” as sepsis can hit and develop rapidly and I sadly do not have full trust in our ‘healthcare’ any longer.
There are also various virus targeting protocols out there which might be worth exploring to reduce the viral load. The ME and MS worlds are good places to search.
Supplementing with vit D should be done with a blood test to show level. If very low then larger amounts need to be taken to start off with as taking the tiny amounts the NHS suggests will do nothing. Even on 1000 iu a day it could take months to increase the levels. Another supplement which boosts the immune system is NAC -n acetyl cisteine. I take this and I have had 2 respiratory viruses in 8 years . If taking vit D magnesium and vit K2 should be taken as well. Sunshine and fresh air are also good for the immune system.
she might want to try a good probiotic. I don’t know if that’s something that she can do, she needs to ask the hospital when she gets to go home. I take a probiotic that you have to ask for in the pharmacy, because it is kept refrigerated. It is called Florigen. After being treated with heavy duty antibiotics, it has probably destroyed all the good bacteria in her gut, which is where our immune system starts from.
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