bicarbonate of soda for lung infection. Has anyone heard of taking bicarbonate of soda for lung infection/ fungus / cancer please.

[judy24]

[RuthPOvacome]

Dear Judy

I am one of the support line nurses. I can't say I have heard of this but please give us a ring in the Ovacome office so that we can discuss it further and try and help answer your question. The number is 08453710554 02072996650 Mon - Fri 10-5

Best Wishes

Ruth

[Hidden]

Hi Judy,

It's controversial, but there's a good bit about it on the web. The theory is that cancer tumours are caused by candida fungus, and therefore can respond v well to treatment with bicarb. Conventional medicine has it that candida is only present (and it is present in all tumours) opportunistically.

I have to say that I had problems with candida for a couple of years before my ov.ca. was discovered - a problem I had not had before or since.

Interesting!!

Thanks for asking the question.

Isadora.

[judy24 in reply to Hidden]

Hii Isadora

Thanks for your reply. A friend of a friend who is a palative care nurse told me about this. Albeit contraversal, she was very positive about results with some of her patients. Will definately research the web for more info. Thanks again

judy

[Hidden in reply to judy24]

Hi Judy,

How is your friend using it? There is a great deal about an Italian Oncologist who has been struck off because he's been treating people with washes of bicarb directly to the tumours and healing some. The conventional medical and drug machine dislike this - partly because of the complete re-thinking of the genesis of cancer, and partly because bicarb is a commercial threat to expensive drugs if it works.

Others are advocating taking bicarb combined with maple syrup or molasses to target tumours as they take up sugar so readily. That worries me a bit, as anything that 'feeds' tumours does - but if the sugars actually do act as a vehicle, I suppose it makes some sense.

I.

[marjorie]

Never heard of this one as I always put Bi-carb in my cabbage and husband always drinks the cabbage water and he seems fine

Would like to see some reponse to that question xx

[sarah1963]

This is a completely random response but I have advanced stage 4OC and in the last couple of weeks I have had infections in my mouth. I have no idea whether a candida fungal infection would manifest itself in this way.

[Hidden in reply to sarah1963]

Hi Sarah,

Yes it can. For a year or two before my diagnosis I had a recurring flare up of oral thrush. A GP I saw said it was v unusual, and was quite scathing about how it happened! I had been dieting quite drastically, and thought that that had sparked the first one - but looking back, I was becoming more and more stressed at work, and it was 'just one of those things' I thought. The GP did say that it could be a sign of 'something being badly wrong', but as I'd never been really ill in my life, I didn't think it would be.

I didn't succumb to any other than thrush infections after surgery or during chemo, either. Oncology gave me a mouth dropper of a drug called 'nystan', which I have used at the first sign of any discomfort in my mouth and throat, and it goes within 24 hours. I still go to it first, before waiting to get a fully blown infection.

I know it's tempting to put 2 and 2 together and make 12 - but it does make me wonder!

Isadora.

[sarah1963]

Isadora

Thanks for replying. I went on to the internet last night and there is a lot about the link. I ended up gargling with bicarb before bed and it actually felt better this morning. I nevertheless did the sensible thing and saw my GP this am. She had printed off general health guidance on treatment for a sore mouth and this included gargling with bicarb. I was also given more Nystatin (awful consistency).

Interested to read your account of your circumstances prior to diagnosis. You may be like me always worrying that somehow getting cancer was my fault because I worked too hard etc.. I'm sure men don't worry as much about things being their fault as us women do.

I'm going to try the Nystatin and bicarb from now on!

Best Wishes

Sarah

[Hidden in reply to sarah1963]

Hi Sarah,

I don't think it was 'my fault', but that there might have been pointers to it being at least associated with candida that, had that association been recognised, might have picked it up a couple of years earlier (or stopped cancer developing at all).

Hope yours is clearing up!

I xx

[Frenchdeb]

I was prescribed bicarb for mouth ulcers by default here in France, and told to use it 6 times a day during the months of my chemo, regardless of whether I have symptoms or not. I have no idea if there's any connection with the o/c but it is interesting to read this. Maybe I'll swallow the stuff now instead of just rinsing with it!