REF CHAPPED SKIN & FROSTBITE
CHAPPED SKIN AND FROSTBITES
Note: There is nothing in Dr. Jacob’s book on this subject.
Chapped skin and frostbite are easy to heal with the 15% MSM therapeutic topical gel or lotion. Apply the gel several times a day to see fast results.
For severe cases, soaking hands or feet in a water based MSM solution should do the trick.
What follows may be gross, but it is proof that a little MSM works a long way.
I am eighty-six years of age and when I was young in Canada, we sometimes came back home in the winter with our gloves or mittens and even our feet all wet. We would end up with chapped skin on our hands and fingers. Our mom had us pee in a basin and we would soak our hands in our own urine for a few minutes and then let the hands and/or feet air dry without wiping them. This old remedy would heal the chapped skin mostly overnight. We are not talking about severe frostbites here; it was mainly chapped skin.
However, we would do the same treatment if we would come home with mostly frozen fingers just to prevent any aggravation.
Now, this was ten to twenty years before a 1960’s laboratory study discovered that children, men, and women excrete four to eleven milligrams of MSM in their urine over a twenty-four-hour period. And animals excrete even more MSM in the same period.
Old folks did not know why this urine treatment helped but they knew it did work.
So, to make even more sense of the six previous paragraphs, penicillin was originally made from the urine of pregnant mares; I am sure many who read this and especially doctors did not know that fact. I personally knew people in this business back in the nineteen sixties. Today, since the 1970’s, because of the extended use of penicillin, this business is extinct, and penicillin is now completely manufactured by chemical processes, just like all other drugs.
I am not surprised by this "old folks" remedy as in medicine there exists what is called “Urine Therapy” as one can see in HYPERHIDROSIS.
Newly approved treatment for severe frostbite.
On February 14, 2024, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Aurlumyn (iloprost) an intravenous injection treatment for severe frostbite in adults to reduce the risk of finger or toe amputation.
“This approval provides patients with the first-ever treatment option for severe frostbite,” said Norman Stockbridge, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Cardiology and Nephrology in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Having this new option provides physicians with a tool that will help prevent the lifechanging amputation of one’s frostbitten fingers or toes.”
Iloprost, the active ingredient in Aurlumyn, is a vasodilator (a drug that opens blood vessels) and prevents blood from clotting.
The treatment consists of six hours a day for eight days intravenous injections with the risk of drug interactions, side effects as mentioned below, the excessive cost of such treatment, and the patient’s need to travel to the treatment site. It is not mentioned if the patients need to stay at the hospital or treatment site for the eight-day duration of the treatment.
The FDA reports that the most common side effects of Aurlumyn include headache, flushing, heart palpitations, fast heart rate, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and hypotension (blood pressure that is too low). Aurlumyn also has a warning and precaution noting that it may cause symptomatic hypotension.
As this approval is recent, the cost of the treatment is not yet available. However, it is safe to say that it will be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
The approval was established in an open-label, controlled trial with a group of forty-seven patients with severe frostbites where sixteen patients received the trial treatment.
MSM’s benefits mentioned in the following paragraph are well established by Dr. Jacob’s clinical research with over thirty thousand patients and by many peer reviewed published studies.
However, because of my own experience mentioned at the top of this page, and because of the known benefits of MSM to penetrate the skin, increase blood flow (MSM opens blood vessels) and fight inflammation, the use of hand or feet soaking in a solution of warm water with a large amount of MSM for a few hours a day, three to five soaks of twenty to thirty minutes, and the massaging with an MSM gel or lotion in between the soakings, should certainly do the trick. (Many soaking baths have been reported in Dr. Jacob’s book and on this website by some people who have used them for many different health conditions with success.)
These MSM soaking could be done in the comfort of the patient’s home without the need for traveling to a treatment site but most importantly using a fully non-toxic natural process without any of this newly approved treatment’s medications’ side effects and its excessive cost.
Notice: Every time you use the MSM therapeutic topical gel, make sure your hands and the massaged area are clean because the MSM penetrates the skin, and one does not want to infect the skin with dirt. Also make sure that you rub the MSM gel in until your hands and the massaged area are completely dry to avoid the MSM crystals staying on top of your skin when the gel’s water evaporates. The demineralized water-based gel contains 15% MSM, which is the maximum to avoid crystallization. So, to prevent the MSM from crystallizing in the MSM gel bottle, do not forget to close the MSM gel bottle lid after use.
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