- Epson/Sulfa

[Guest guest]

– Thanks for the great response!

I myself had my first drug reaction to a sulfa drug with a one and only

bladder infection. Amazing, it came on like the last day or two when I was

to be done. I was head to toe body rash that wasn’t all that itchy really.

Thanks goodness for prednisone! I’m a pro at rashes, poison ivy and I’ve

had a couple full body rashes from soaps. NO FUN!

So are you still allergic and stay away from any sulfa drug? I don’t take

bathes and our master only has a walk in shower. Anyway, I was thinking

about filing up the tub while I shower and soak my feet in Epson salt myself

but was wondering it I would have a reaction at all. I’ll have to read that

paper!

We also just built and have our own well. So no chlorine but we need a

softener for rusty water issues and a pH neutralizer because of all the pine

trees. Hummm…also something!

Thanks

Tammy

Re: my first post

Hi Tammy (and others with Phenol and Epsom salts questions,

I have been seriously " allergic " to sulphur drugs since I was a child

and I recently dove deep into researching the transulfuration pathway.

There is a great paper in the files section of this group. In

the subdirectory Related Topics and Supplements, called Sulfur and

PST. I highly recommend you print it out and read it a couple of times

over. I wish I knew who wrote it!

It's a fantastic introduction to the phenolsulphotransferase enzyme

and its function (or lack thereof) in our kids. It certainly opened my

eyes and I was able to make the connections from my son's ASD to my

family history of sulphur processing issues, addiction to artificial

colours/flavours/MSG, cravings for high phenol foods etc.

My son also had multiple chemical sensitivity, which he has almost

recovered from now with help of information I first read in the

article. It started the whole process rolling in my education

phenolsulphotransferase and other biochemical processes.

Basically how it should work is you eat a sulphur food (eggs,

broccoli, garlic etc) and it gets turned into sulphite (bad chemical!)

as an intermediary before being processed into sulphate (good

chemical!). The process is handled by the PST enzyme with help from

molybdenum and a couple of other essential elements. All fine and

dandy, if you have enough PST enzymes, enough of the essential

elements and not too many phenols taking up the time of the busy PST

enzymes.

If you have too many sulphur and phenol foods going in, not enough PST

enzymes to process them (which you can't take as a supplement by the

way – it's a biochemical enzyme, not a digestive one), in addition to

not enough of the right essential elements to support the chemical

reaction and throw heavy metal toxicity + chlorine from

drinking/bath/pool water on top of that – well, you have a major

traffic jam at the PST enzyme " toll booth " and no way to clear the

back log. Phenol overload and sulphite toxicity are the result of that.

Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) absorbed transdermally is a GREAT way

to get the end product sulphate into the system without having to go

through the processing.

Low phenol, low sulphur diet is the best thing for reducing the

traffic pile up. Supplement with molybdenum and the other essential

elements if they are low to speed up the processing of those toll

booth workers. Get chlorine out of every drop of water that goes near

your kid because it's toxic to this process. Actually it's toxic to

all living cells and biochemical processes, but it's particularly bad

for poor overworked PST guys who never get a break.

That's just my simple way of understanding and explaining it all. Read

the paper for the full story.

I have my son in a 2cup Epsom salts bath per day (then I get in

afterwards!), low sulphur and phenol diet. No-Phenol 3x per day,

supplement the essential elements that test low and de chlorinate as

much as I can.

Hope that helps!

– mother to 4 year old son: recovered from ASD, multiple

chemical sensitivities, eczema and 1/2 dozen other related conditions.