Question from Mike
Our home recently had a sewer backup and now my wife has been experiencing some nausea and headaches since, due to a smell she senses, but I do not. She is able to smell it everywhere in our home and on our clothes. Our home tested positive for benzoic acid, but I do not have a baseline result prior to the backup event. What are some good ways to decontaminate her to alleviate her reactions as well as decontaminating the home? We are trying to leave the windows open as much as possible and have purchased two air purifiers. Additionally I changed out the filters in the furnace and had the air ducts scraped and cleaned. It has been almost six weeks since the event and this does not seem to be going away or mitigating itself. My wife feels better when we leave the house, but when she gets a scent off her clothes, she gets a nausea feeling.
Debra’s Answer
I have no personal experience with this. Readers?
I have been able to decrease my extremely severe and life-threatening reactions to chemicals by healing my liver: liver tea (contains dandelion, licorice.. careful if she has high BP), taking organic milk thistle to 80% sylimarin with the tea (heat activates it) and several other supplements including methionine and sunflower lecithin taken together to further heal the liver. (I had severe fatty liver caused by liver damaging prescription meds!) The methionine further detoxes ammonia from the brain which is a huge problem for us PWMCS. (I take other stuff as well). Please note: I have extreme reactions to many aminos (1 pill of those knocks me down for 1 week) which obviously I cannot take. Methionine is not one of them, it’s super healing to me, but everyone is different so please research all of this & make informed decision. If you can’t take licorice there’s other herbs I have not tried like artichoke. I did not post any brands because I didn’t know if it’s against the TOS but I hope this helps. 🙂 Be well everyone!
COMMENT FROM DEBRA:
You are absolutely on the right track healing your liver!
PureBody Liquid Zeolite will also detox the liver by removing toxic chemicals from the body directly, like a magnet. This reduces stress on your liver and allows it to regenerate. Since it is a natural mineral, the likelihood of a reaction to it as a detox agent is much less than taking an herb.
What about looking into ozone generators? You would have to leave the house while it was operating. What about contacting a baubiologist for advice?