Hope that you are feeling better.

Since the first batch of clay has characteristics that we are
interested in studying, we are going to cover the costs of testing the
subsequent batch. I’m just not sure when we will get around to
testing it – hopefully within a few weeks.

Healing clays” hold promise in fight against MRSA superbug infections
and disease

NEW ORLEANS — Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near
you. Scientists from Arizona State University report that minerals
from clay promise could provide inexpensive, highly-effective
antimicrobials to fight methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) infections that are moving out of health care settings and into
the community. These “superbugs” are increasingly resistant to
multiple antibiotics and cause thousands of deaths each year.
Clay

Minerals from clay could provide a source of powerful antimicrobials
for fighting deadly MRSA infections and other diseases.
Photo courtesy of Arizona State University, John C. Phillips

Unlike conventional antibiotics routinely administered by injection or
pills, the so-called “healing clays” could be applied as rub-on creams
or ointments to keep MRSA infections from spreading, according to a
research duo from ASU’s Biodesign Institute and College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences. The clays also show promise against a wide range of
other harmful bacteria, including those that cause skin infections and
food poisoning, they add. Their study, one of the first to explore the
antimicrobial activity of natural clays in detail, was presented at
the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the
world’s largest scientific society.

Clays have been used for thousands of years as a remedy for infected
wounds, indigestion, and other health problems, either by applying
clay to the skin or eating it. Cleopatra’s famed beauty has been
credited to her use of clay facials. Today, clays are still commonly
used at health spas in the form of facials and mud baths. However,
armed with new investigative tools, researchers Shelley Haydel and
Lynda Williams are putting the clays to the test, scientifically.

“Clays are little chemical drug-stores in a packet,” says study
co-leader Williams, a geochemist in the School of Earth and Space
Exploration. “They contain literally hundreds of

In their latest study, funded by the National Institutes of Health,
Williams, Haydel and their colleagues collected more than 20 different
clay samples from around the world to investigate their antibacterial
activities. Study co-leader Haydel, a microbiologist in ASU’s School
of Life Sciences and a researcher in ASU’s Biodesign Institute, tested
each of the clays against bacteria known to cause human diseases.
These bacteria include MRSA, Mycobacterium ulcerans (a microbe related
to the tuberculosis bacterium that causes a flesh-eating disease known
as Buruli ulcer), as well as E. coli and Salmonella (which cause food
poisoning).

The researchers identified at least two clays from the United States
that kill or significantly reduce the growth of these bacteria, in
addition to the one French green clay that launched their research in
2005. The antibacterial effect of the French clay was documented this
year in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, with co-author
Christine Remenih.

Identifying what specific compounds make these clays effective
antibacterial agents presents a challenge, researchers say, but they
credit their combined perspectives, coming as they do from two very
different scientific disciplines, for their successes. Haydel and
Williams note too that tools like electron and ion microscopy might
also reveal how these antibacterial clays may interact with the cell
membranes or cellular physiology of the bacteria to kill.

Williams and Haydel continue to test new clay samples from around the
world to determine their germ-fighting potential. They hope that the
more promising clays will be developed into a skin ointment or pill to
fight a variety of bacterial infections or possibly as an agricultural
wash to prevent food poisoning. Several companies have expressed
interest in forming partnerships to develop the clays as antimicrobial
agents, the scientists say.

But ordinary mud can contain dangerous bacteria as well as toxic
minerals like arsenic and mercury, the researchers point out. Until
healing clays are developed that are scientifically proven, which
could take several years, they say that hand washing and other proper
hygiene techniques may be the best bet for keeping MRSA and other
harmful bacteria at bay.

Sources:
Lynda Williams
Associate Research Professor
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

Shelley Haydel
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences and Biodesign Institute’s Center for
Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Shelley.Haydel

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After a few weeks I was better, just had to shower with Hibiclens and couldn’t shave my legs for 6 months (the staph infection was on my thigh). But I’m all better now! It’s terrifying to read what I could have gone through, and all because hospital workers weren’t careful enough and brought staph into the outside world.

Thank you so much for posting your story online! I hope Marshall continues to be healthy and happy!

The boils I experience could never be confused with Herpes or Psoriasis. I have seen both and there are marked and extremely noticable difference between all three.

One issue that has recently come to light is that my MRSA tends to get “annoyed” and “aggravated” whenever I take common antibiotics for something else, such as a severe cold or bronchial virus, often resulting in numerous simultaneous outbreaks on my arms, armpits, and abdomen. A soon as the antibiotics are stopped, the MRSA seems to retreat.

So i had a surgery to fix the problem, first real doctor visit i had and i was laid up for a couple of weeks not able to go to work.

and the end of februaury of 2008 i noticed a bump on my ankle it was not red at first
it kind of looked like a mosquito bite that was oblong in shape, it kind of itched and i think my boot was irritating it more and more a few days later it got bigger and redder
and i could not walk on it after standing for 8 hours or more on my shift at work.

by standing on it for a long period of time it acted like a sprain ankle and my whole ankle was getting swelled, i went to the emergency room after my wife looked at it

and the doctors of today said it was a “Spider Bite” in the winter time in iowa a brown recluse — i think they said–and i believed them because they are doctors

i stayed in the hospital on antibiotics for a couple of days and they took blood work and lanced the top layer of it off to get the puss out of it, i left the hospital and had to gauze it everyday with some antibiotic cream and by the end of march 2008 all that is left is a scab i thought i was done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nope

just recently 2weeks ago i get another bump on my stomach and it is like the one on my leg i thought i must have a nest of these fricken spiders in my house biting me while i sleep i got to my same doctor and said look at this spot on my stomach

he said it might be another spider bite i said i want a “CULTURE” DONE he kinda he hawed around and said fine we will do a culture and guess what the DOCTORS ARE WRONG it was MRSA all this time and now i am treating this boyle looking thing with an I.V. in my arm doing 2 bags of antibiotics a day for 2 weeks—i am 4 days into it and i am pssstttt—

THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON
THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO IF I KNOW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW

1. DON’T ALWAYS TRUST YOUR DOCTOR ASK QUESTIONS
2. DON’T RELY ON JUST BLOOD WORK ITS TELLING YOU ONLY IF IT REACHED YOUR BLOOD SYSTEM BUT MRSA CAN JUST BE ON YOUR SKIN
3. IMPORTANT GET A CULTURE DONE GUARANTEED DEMAND ONE
4. FIRST SIGN OF REDNESS GET TO THE HOSPITAL AND DEMAND A CULTURE
5. WASH HANDS AND BE A CLEAN FREAK EVERYDAY OF YOUR LIFE NOW THAT YOU GOT THIS
6. WHEN YOU THINK YOUR HEALED DEMAND 2 FORM OF CULTURES DONE A WOUND SWAB AND A NOSE SWAB—I THINK THIS MRSA CAN BE AIRBORN

I AM NOT TRYING TO SCARE ANYBODY BUT TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT IF WE DON’T START DOING A STERILIZING PROTOCOL IN OUR HOSPITALS,NURSING HOMES, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THIS COULD BE 5-10 YEARS FROM NOW THE FURTURE BUBONIC PLAGUE IF OUR ANTIBIOTICS CAN’T KILL THIS SUPERBUG—GIVE ME A CALL 641-583-1538