I have been mulling this over for a while and I finally put it down in writing. Keep in mind as you are reading that the human immune system can still isolate small enclaves of fungal material. In the wrong term your intact immune system may be your best ally in this event. But we need better and more tolerable fungal treatments. And we still need far more extensive diagnostics and I think this should include PET Scans as well as sequential qPCR if that ever becomes available again. Fungal Lesson from the Bathroom Over the past several months I have been doing some work remodelling a small bathroom. The work involved removing a drop ceiling and rerouting some electrical wires located below the upstairs bathroom. There had been a leaking connection in the pipes to the upstairs bathroom many years ago. As a result of the moisture in that environment some black mold had formed on a couple of the joists for the second floor. It was now totally dry and involved a small area of the support lumbar. I procedeed to treat it with a mold killer containing some fungicidal organic ammonia compounds. That took care of the local issue. The area of black mold was above and little to the side of the toilet in the downstairs bathroom. Some of the spores that were disrupted apparently filtered down into the downstairs toilet. A few weeks later small spots of black stuff began to grow in the toilet which was not being used. As anyone would do, I used traditional toilet bowl cleaners to get rid of the black spots. We started using the toilet again.....and here is the lesson: The black spots returned....in the same spots they were in previously. That began a series of cleaning again and again only to have the black spots in the toilet return and grow in exactly the same spots they had been in. Given the history of cleaning the black mold in the upstairs joists, and given some of the knowledge of fungal growth I have gained over the course of posting in the Fungal Meningitis pages, I took the next logical step: I treated the toilet with a commercially available anti-fungal treatment. I poured some in the toilet bowl, and I poured some more in the rank and let it sit. I then scrubbed the toilet, flushed it and repeated the procedure two more times. VOILA!! The black spots were gone and have been gone for 3 months! So let me summarize the points of the lesson and, by analogy, SUGGEST (not scientific proof) some worrisome mechanisms that may be at play in people who have been inoculated with contaminated medication: 1. Fungi can gain a foothold in small pores on seemingly smooth surfaces such as the porcelain in the toilet. In spite of external scrubbing, the mold can remain entrenched and regrow when left alone. Similarly, inoculated fungus has the potential to entrench itself in human tissue only to re-emerge at some later date. 2. Normal cleaning methods do not work for fungus, and mechanical scrubbing is not sufficient to eradicate viable fungal particles, even when combined with chemicals such as chlorox. In people, surgical removal of fungal masses is standard treatment to minimize fungal load, but it is not sufficient to eradicate the fungus. Note that Pope Francis had a lung lobe removed because of a fungal infection when he was a teenager. 3. As stated normal chemicals that destroy bacteria and viruses such as chlorox do not work on fungi with their sturdy cell walls. Specifically fungal toxins must be used. As in the toilet there is always the chance that entrenched but not eliminated fungal enclaves can reactivate. In people however, the immune system when working properly will often do its part and surround the fungal growth with walls of scar tissue to effectively contain the fungus, a defense that is not available to inanimate objects like the toilet. Walled off fungal growth still has the potential for resuming active growth if the containing wall is breached, as can happen when the immune system is suppressed by disease or by treatment for other diseases. Finally, fungi are tenaceous and difficult to eradicate. People who have been inoculated need to be under careful surveillance for recurrent fungal activity and need to carefully consider any medical treatment that may suppress the immune system, or physically disrupt any tissues that may have been colonized.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:19:18 +0000
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