Chlorine dioxide

Miracle Mineral Supplement, often referred to as Miracle Mineral Solution, Master Mineral Solution, or MMS, is a toxic solution of 28% sodium chlorite in distilled water. The product contains essentially the same ingredient as industrial-strength bleach before "activation" with a food-grade acid. Chemically known as NaCl02, has enjoyed its reputation as a powerful disinfectant for a number of years. MMS or Miracle Mineral Supplement is a supplement which contains 28% sodium chlorite (which is NOT the same thing as common table salt which is sodium chloride). Sodium chlorite has been safely used in alternative medicine for more than 70 years to prevent colds and the flu and to treat a wide variety of microbial conditions.

Special Precautions of Chlorine dioxide

• Sodium chlorite is a strong oxidant and can therefore be expected to cause clinical symptoms similar to the well known sodium chlorate: methemoglobinemia, hemolysis, renal failure. A dose of 10-15 grams of sodium chlorate can be lethal. Methemoglobemia had been demonstrated in rats and cats, and recent studies by the EMEA have confirmed that the clinical symptomatology is very similar to the one caused by sodium chlorate in rats, mice, rabbits, and green monkeys. There is only one human case in the medical literature of chlorite poisoning. It seems to confirm that the toxicity is equal to sodium chlorate. From the analogy with sodium chlorate, even small amounts of about 1 gram can be expected to cause nausea, vomiting and even life-threatening hemolysis in Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficient persons.
• The Food and Drug Adminstration is warning people not to use a supplement that claims to treat diseases ranging from HIV to acne, after receiving reports it is making consumers sick. When used as directed, the FDA says Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach often used in industrial water treatment and stripping textiles. The FDA has received numerous reports of serious side effects including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and life threatening low-blood pressure from dehydration.
• The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.
• Low Birth Weight : The main component of MMS, chlorine dioxide, has been associated with small term birth, or STB, according to a study published in the September 2003 issue of "Annalil di Igine." The Italian case study evaluated 93 pre-term births, PTB; 73 small term births, STB; and 166 control patients between October 1999 and September 2000. The study found a significant association between low birth rates and water treated with 87 percent chlorine dioxide.
• Anemia : Chlorine dioxide has been shown to cause anemia in rats when added to their drinking water, according J. Tibbetts in an article published in the January 1995 issue of "Environmental Health Perspectives." Adults with G6PD, an inherited condition when your body is deficient in the enzyme glucose-6-phospage dehydrogenase, or G6PD, are also at risk of developing hemolytic anemia from drinking chlorine dioxide treated water, according to G.S. Moore in an article published in the September 1980 issue of the "Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology."

The benefits of Chlorine dioxide are

MMS was first coined by Jim Humble in his 2006 self-published book, The Miracle Mineral Solution of the 21st Century. A more dilute version is marketed as Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS). MMS is falsely and dangerously promoted as a cure for HIV, malaria, hepatitis viruses, the H1N1 flu virus, common colds, acne, cancer, and more. There have been no clinical trials to provide evidence in support of these claims, which come only from anecdotal reports and Humble's book. In January 2010, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that one vendor admitted that they do not repeat any of Humble's claims in writing to circumvent regulations against using it as a medicine. Sellers sometimes describe MMS as a water purifier so as to circumvent medical regulations. For the past 100 years hospitals have used an acidized version to disinfect equipment—and the agricultural industry has used it to remove harmful microbes from meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables.
MMS was created by Jim Humble, a gold miner, and is sold by the Healthy Living company. The Healthy Living company claims taking MMS will help prevent or cure diseases such as malaria or viruses and will boost the immune system. However MMS is not approved for the treatment of any disease and according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, chronic exposure to small doses of chlorine dioxide could cause serious health effects; (See above)