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A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by bdamm »

jMyles wrote: post #5

There is a comment in this thread downvoted and killed, but I think it's not an entirely unreasonable question - and it's possible that someone here knows the answer: > Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial.

My family uses water bombers to put out all of our cathedral fires.

Ok, back from sarcasm land. I have faith that the anti-fungal researchers have an expansive view of anti-fungal treatments, and the likelihood that a random person on ycombinator knows about a treatment that these professionals don't, is about zero.

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by bluejekyll »

muktaakash wrote: post #4

Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial. Regards to all.

Here's the best article I found supporting at least the garlic as a natural and viable cure: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/remedies-garlic-fo...

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“Garlic has long been considered a powerful natural antifungal,” said Dr. Lawrence D. Rosen, chief of pediatric integrative medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and a pediatrician at the Whole Child Center in nearby Oradell. Dr. Rosen pointed out that studies have found garlic effective against a number of fungal infections, including those caused by Candida and other common pathogens.

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Here's the supporting study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12174037?itool=EntrezSys...

And conclusion: "Fresh garlic extract has a greater efficacy than garlic powder extract as indicated both by its effects on morphology and inhibition of growth."

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

fzeroracer wrote: post #7
jMyles wrote: post #5

There is a comment in this thread downvoted and killed, but I think it's not an entirely unreasonable question - and it's possible that someone here knows the answer: > Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial.

I'm wondering if they tried chicken noodle soup. That's been my family's home remedy for sickness and considering we seem to get better after every cold, it has a 100% success rate. To be less sardonic, it's an unreasonable question because it has zero scientific basis. I've had naturopathic family members attempt to give things to children that were definitely not safe in any shape or form.

How about the idea that you can make tea from the leaves and bark of a willow tree, and use it to treat fevers and aches and pains? Does that sound like a ridiculous folk remedy?

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by jawilson2 »

clucas wrote: post #10
jMyles wrote: post #5

There is a comment in this thread downvoted and killed, but I think it's not an entirely unreasonable question - and it's possible that someone here knows the answer: > Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial.

Per the article, the fungus was in her bloodstream - I think mainlining fried coconut oil is probably contraindicated.

I can see you've never tried a keto diet.

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by dmix »

maratd wrote: post #9
fzeroracer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm wondering if they tried chicken noodle soup. That's been my family's home remedy for sickness and considering we seem to get better after every cold, it has a 100% success rate. To be less sardonic, it's an unreasonable question because it has zero scientific basis. I've had naturopathic family members attempt to give things to children that were definitely not safe in any shape or form.

Yes, because trial and error over thousands of years of trying local flora couldn't possibly yield a solution from an eco-system that has to actively fight off fungal infections. /sarcasm

Yes everything that 'comes from the earth' is automatically better for you than something that was rigorously clinically tested!

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by Tharkun »

Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We've had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don't need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by DoreenMichele »

fzeroracer wrote: post #7
jMyles wrote: post #5

There is a comment in this thread downvoted and killed, but I think it's not an entirely unreasonable question - and it's possible that someone here knows the answer: > Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial.

I'm wondering if they tried chicken noodle soup. That's been my family's home remedy for sickness and considering we seem to get better after every cold, it has a 100% success rate. To be less sardonic, it's an unreasonable question because it has zero scientific basis. I've had naturopathic family members attempt to give things to children that were definitely not safe in any shape or form.

Garlic and coconut oil are both known to have antibiotic properties. I'm not familiar with blackseed.

For context, aspirin and quinine both come from plants (trees in both cases, iirc). Capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot peppers, gets used as the active ingredient in over-the-counter topical arthritis medication.

Due to the hot, humid climate, jungle cultures deal excessively much with fungal infections. IIRC, quinine was a traditional treatment for malaria well before Western medicine discovered it. My recollection is this id how Western medicine learned of it -- from locals who knew it as an effective remedy.

Last I checked, malaria was becoming resistant to synthetic derivatives of quinine. Such strains were still treatable with actual quinine.

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by baobrain »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #13
fzeroracer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm wondering if they tried chicken noodle soup. That's been my family's home remedy for sickness and considering we seem to get better after every cold, it has a 100% success rate. To be less sardonic, it's an unreasonable question because it has zero scientific basis. I've had naturopathic family members attempt to give things to children that were definitely not safe in any shape or form.

How about the idea that you can make tea from the leaves and bark of a willow tree, and use it to treat fevers and aches and pains? Does that sound like a ridiculous folk remedy?

(For those unfamiliar, aspirin was discovered this way)

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by bdamm »

maratd wrote: post #9
fzeroracer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm wondering if they tried chicken noodle soup. That's been my family's home remedy for sickness and considering we seem to get better after every cold, it has a 100% success rate. To be less sardonic, it's an unreasonable question because it has zero scientific basis. I've had naturopathic family members attempt to give things to children that were definitely not safe in any shape or form.

Yes, because trial and error over thousands of years of trying local flora couldn't possibly yield a solution from an eco-system that has to actively fight off fungal infections. /sarcasm

Every organism on earth has to actively fight off fungal infections, every minute of its existence. Take a deep breath and know that your body is fighting off the millions of spores that entered your lungs.

Re: A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

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Post by voldacar »

jMyles wrote: post #5

There is a comment in this thread downvoted and killed, but I think it's not an entirely unreasonable question - and it's possible that someone here knows the answer: > Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial.

Your comment reminds me of that weird medieval remedy that turned out to be able to kill MRSA (!) [0]

There's certainly plenty of BS in the traditional medicine world, but there may be a lot of remedies lurking right under science's nose.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasty-medieval-rem...

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