Re[6]: Re: Too Much Inflamation - sewer gas in hot water

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At 09:58 PM 4/19/2009, you wrote:

>Thank you so much, . Mom and Dad are 89 and 91 respectively.

>Their home is a very nice old n and the bathroom downstairs

>was an add-on, so your advice is right on. I will give this to my Son,

>who does their carpentry/sundry work. I mentioned it to him by phone

>tonight. Mom and Dad agreed, too, that they may have to replace the

>water heater and pipes. e'll certainly investigate.

Well, investigate the heater and pipes, separately. That is one might

be replaced only, the heater, to solve the problem. But if they let

it go on for a long, long time, and they do not have copper pipes,

then replacing the pipes should be considered, upgrading them

to copper, as the inside of the metal pipes corrodes, allowing

lots of spaces for germs to grow in, out of the flow of the water.

When the water flows, the most recent growth is scraped off

into the water, and out the tap and the smell enters the bathroom,

kitchen, shower, etc.

>That's not the worst of their problems. They once in a while get water

>in their basement: MOLD! I can't go down there.

I know of a dozen such basements now. Very dangerous.

>About 2 years ago, my

>parents decided to begin to clean it out. Right afterwards, they were

>both ill. Dad had a series of strokes and now must use a walker. Just

>a few weeks ago, Mom went back down to clean out some papers, etc. She

>wound up so ill that I thought we were going to lose her. The day

>after her attack, she went for blood tests and her liver enzymes were

>228 and just under 300. Well, they still don't believe it's the mold.

Hard to believe they do not. It could be the stairs are too much for them?

Consider the sulphur burning treatment? But first they have to be

tested for sulphur sensitivity. My sulphur detox pathways were overwhelmed

by the sewer gas here (That's how I learned of this, first hand), and I

had to stop eating eggs, garlic, onions, and other sulphur containing foods.

Ugh. I'm eating eggs again, and tested an onion, starting 4 weeks ago.

The hot water heater here was replaced 5 weeks ago.

>Fortunately, she's recovering, but sleeping a lot.

The immune system is detoxing her body. She ought to consider low impact

aerobics to increase circulation and drinking more water to flush the toxins.

The water flushing will reduce her sleep hours per day. The aerobics or

just walking 30-50 minutes a day, divide that into 3 10 minutes walks if

you want, will increase her sleep hours, initially, and then decrease it

as the toxins are mostly out of her body.

>It's such a shame

>because at their ages, they were in better shape than I am. A decade

>ago, I wanted them to have testing done down there.

Buy the petri dishes, have your son place them for 1 hour, and mail them

to the test lab. It's $40 per dish. Do the basement, the stairway, the

room outside the basement door, their bedroom, the bathroom, the

kitchen, and one outside for a baseline (very important). Yes, it

will cost $200, but the comparision of all the dish results will

be very convincing to them.

>'ve asked them to

>get professional cleaners, but they resist. Maybe now they will.

There is a group of pros, they come to your home 8 at a time, and

for 12 hours they clean EVERY room, in just one day. They move

everything, and clean every surface, including all possessions.

The elderly have a well known habit of leaving critical maintenance

left undone, for years, and they handle it by " avoiding " the area,

so they do not get sick.

Then when they open the door, they get real sick, in minutes, or seconds,

and can die. It happens a lot. Books are written about this syndrome.

Young people moving into their dream home, vacated by the death

of the elderly couple living there, and the young people get real sick.

Well, this list I do not have to go on.

Find some newspaper stories in the local online papers in their area,

papers they read, that are about this situation. I did that with my

Mom, and it takes about 5-12 such articles before they believe,

and act. But it does happen. Worth my time to keep my Mother

around a little bit longer.

Good luck.

Pete