Posted on 06/28/2020 1:05:07 PM PDT by Dacula
I am tired of buying store-bought products that do more harm than good.
I am curious if fellow FReepers were using baking soda and Epson Salt on a regular basis and if so what is your favorite tip.
Perhaps you have another 'Secret' product that you use.
Anyone ever have any negative experiences using Borax in the laundry? I have to sanitize a certain family member’s clothing and don’t want to use bleach. I had been using Lysol laundry sanitizer but it’s been gone from the stores for a couple of months now.
I’ve read that Borax sanitizes wash but have had a couple of people tell me it can ruin clothes.
I use it to wash my cloth face mask...
Thanks - that'll be perfect for some driveway weeds..
Grind up in a proper proportion, then wet down and form a solid cake. Allow to dry, then flake into small granules. Avoid heat and sparks or be ready for festivities to break out.
Food for thought from a closely matched discipline I have found knowledgeable.
Everybody is different, with a different predisposition, so the things these do to each person may be different.
For example, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, some people are hot, and some are cold, which I think relates to GI bacterial growth, with hot having a slight over growth of microbes in the GI tract (and associated warmth/inflammation), and cool being an undergrowth, with too low a level of immune activity that doesn’t do enough to keep invaders at bay. The hot people benefit from cooling herbs, and the cool people benefit from warming herbs.
In TCM, Epsom salt is like an herb called Mang Xaio (sodium sulfate), which is strongly cold. It will be great for people who run warm, and reduce their inflammation, but it will slow down and cloud up people who run cool to begin with, and maybe casue them to get frequent minor infections.
Notice the poster here who says Capscacin, Tumeric, and ginger. Those are all warming herbs. I would guess he is older, and maybe runs cool, maybe even lives in a colder environment, so those warm him up, and bring him back into balance. I think he would probably find epsom salt to not work well over the long term.
So the point being, according to a lot of health systems with thousands of years of observations, there will not be one silver bullet. Rather you have to try what other people say works, but recognize it could have the opposite effect in you. If it works, great, but if it doesn’t stop and try something else.
Compressed nitrocellulose was the first alternative to ivory for making billiard balls—understand these started some gunfights.
Ammonia added to wash water along with detergent gives it a synergistic boost. half cup or so, depending on load size.
DO NOT ADD WITH BLEACH
Inside tip from Miller Brewery laundry
Q: Why don't they have ice cubes in < insert country >?
A: They lost the recipe!
You measure them out, by weight, grind them into a powder, then use them to propel objects out of gun barrels.
It can also be used to wash ducks......
“... have to use antacids all the time...”
Thanks for the thought.
My acid problem is from my asthma/COPD. Asthma flare-ups many times can cause the lower esophageal sphincter to relax, allowing stomach contents to flow back, or reflux, into the esophagus. That’s what the docs have told me.
Some asthma medications, also, may worsen reflux symptoms. So kinda damned if I do..... And I am on a first name basis with all the staff at the ER I go to when I can’t handle an asthma or COPD event at home with my machine. Frequent flyer. Might not be there as often if they’d give me the stuff they use with their supernebs, Solu-Medrol, a high powered glucocorticoids used to treat autoimmune problems which asthma is. But giving someone something that strong, to do what it can, could be like giving a little boy a loaded gun so I can understand their thinking. Too many times people think if a little can do so much good, then..... And the stuff carries a few bad side effects like increased blood sugar level, I’m diabetic, increases your cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and loss of muscle tissue. Lot of other baggage, too.
Besides, baking soda is cheaper and can be put in the fridge to help freshen it. Multi tasking. Just trying to stay out in front of things. Thanks again for the advice.
rwood
I always thought that was a Blonde Joke! ;)
I don’t know about cats and tea tree oil, but I do know tea tree oil is extremely toxic to dogs. It will cause their major organs to shut down.
I find it slightly amusing all the warnings I am getting from people who are apparently under the delusion that tea tree oil is so dangerous that fifteen drops in a quart of water sprayed around the house causes death when they totally ignore the far more deadly amount of vodka in the mix.
Do not put any essential oils on your pets. Not even catnip oil which in leaf form is non-toxic. The problem is the fact that the oils are extremely concentrated. It takes 110 pound of plant to produce about a quart of tea tree oil. Other oils require even more plant matter to produce their oil.
However in the amount used and in the manner described tea tree oil is quite safe.
Brawndo... plants crave electrolytes!
You are getting it looked at, so I’m happy.
Funny that you explain how in your case asthma causes reflux, because I had asthma diagnosed, I noticed it was usually after eating, went to a GI doc and told him I thought it was reflux causing cough, got Nexium, that cured the “asthma”. i.e in my case reflux causes asthma. GI doc said oh yeah, reflux causes asthma “all the time”.
In summary, reflux can cause asthma, and asthma can cause reflux.
For me, Nexium broke the cycle.
Pour it on the mound
“In summary, reflux can cause asthma, and asthma can cause reflux.
For me, Nexium broke the cycle.”
Omeprazole and esomeprazole are similar drugs. However, there are minor differences in their chemical makeup. Omeprazole contains two isomers, R and S, of the drug while Nexium only contains one isomer.
Wish it was that easy though. The omeprazole I take is the industrial strength drug from the pharmacy that’s got a little more get up and go because of the dosage. But the bad part is that I still, occasionally, get to swig down alka seltzer, or if I’m out, baking soda to catch up. And you are completely correct, one assists the other. Pain in the keyster.
But each of our drugs have side effects. For your esomeprazole you can possibly get headache, diarrhea, nausea, gas, abdominal pain. constipation, dry mouth and
drowsiness.
Omeprazole can give me headache, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, gas, fever, and respiratory system symptoms.
So hell...it’s a crap shoot anyway. If the gerd doesn’t kill me, the cure will.
rwood
Worms love coffee grounds... I wonder if there's a connection...
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