Re: absorption of iodine from vaginal membranes

[Guest guest]

Sue, thanks so much for your response. Since my first post I found

more posts (at this site and others) confirming that iodine to the

vaginal tissues/cervix DOES somehow transport to breast tissue. --

Even that this method was used by farmers to treat cows with

mastitis ages ago! So for women diagnosed with breast cancer (who

are desperate to get iodine delivered to the breasts): my questions

to this group are: (1)is it possible that, because of hormones or

some other female reason, transport of iodine from cervix to breast

is more direct than via oral/digestive/blood or skin absorption?

(2) is there a danger to supplementing oral and/or skin application

with vaginal? and (3) would sea sponge saturation be preferable to

douching? My thinking is that with douching, the solution doesn't

remain on the tissues as long as it would with wearing a tampon-

sized natural sea sponge saturated with iodine/water solution.

Lynn/ - forgive me if this has already been

covered somewhere. If so, please point me to the appropriate

links/files sections. 2 women dear to me are facing breast cancer,

so I am really anxious to learn as much as possible. Many thanks for

this wonderful resource, Joan

>

> Hi Joan,

>

> My OBGYN told me he swabs the vagina of 2 women who are their 70s

with

> iodine once a month. He is doing this for fibrocystic breasts.

This is his

> only use of iodine. He is working with me on my thyroid and iodine

> supplementing, but he is only working with me on the iodine

because I

> requested it. He thinks we get enough in our diets. I will be

educating

> him on my success with iodine next month.

>

> Sue

>

> I was wondering: since iodine absorption can be different

depending

> on the type of tissue, and since some experience gastric distress

> from oral iodine, it might be useful (for women) to also use

vaginal

> application of iodine. I read that iodine was first discovered

from

> a burnt sponge. So perhaps using a natural sea sponge would be a

> good vehicle, saturated with water and a drop or 2 (?) of Lugol's

or

> Atomidine. Sea sponge tampons are sold at health food stores (very

> comfortable). Related messages:

> #15127

> " Douching with iodine was not something he (Dr. Flechas) used...no

> reason he simply gives it orally. Iodine does act differently when

> taken orally than allowed to diffuse in via membranes like

vaginal.

> We ran out of time to get into more on this. "

> #15216

> " In addition, serum iodine concentrations have become elevated

> following application of povidone-iodine dressings to extensive

> surgical wounds, after vaginal instillation, and after application

> to the umbilical cord and an inch of surrounding skin of neonates

> (Delacruz 1987) "

> Has anyone tried this? If so, what was your experience?

>

[Guest guest]

> mastitis ages ago! So for women diagnosed with breast cancer (who > are desperate to get iodine delivered to the breasts): my questions > to this group are: (1)is it possible that, because of hormones or > some other female reason, transport of iodine from cervix to breast > is more direct than via oral/digestive/blood or skin absorption? Yes it goes to the breast but the mechanism really isn't understood. Do a search on J. Myer's work on iodine4 health.com. He used iodine swabbed on the cervix for fibrocystic breasts and it relived it within hours. Here's pieces from an article by than about Myer's work:

Fibrocystic Breasts

J

Nutrition & Healing – July 1995

"Dr. Myers was a pioneer in the clinical uses of minerals, starting in the 1930's and `40's. He worked out a treatment program for fibrocystic breast disease that substantially reduces or eliminates both the cysts and the symptoms for a very large majority of women... "Dr. Myers applied iodine in different ways according to the severity of the fibrocystic disease. In your case, we'll follow his procedure for the more serious problems...."Dr. Myers recommended iodine swabbed into the vagina followed almost immediately by intravenous injection of magnesium....

"Myers did experimental work with beagles with fibrocystic breast disease. He surgically removed the ovaries from one group, left the others intact, and treated them all with iodine. Only the intact beagles improved; none of the beagles without ovaries showed any improvement at all. He then found that placing the iodine as close to the ovaries as possible got the best results.."In less severe cases...and for you, once you improve enough...we'll have you swallow the iodine, along with magnesium, Vitamin E, and other supporting nutrients. Since you have your worst problem premenstrually, there'll be extra Vitamin B at that time...."We'll repeat this treatment once or twice weekly until you're improved enough to switch to an `oral' treatment program entirely. However, except for the iodine and magnesium, please start the rest of the program now. As you said, eliminate absolutely all caffeine in anything. Continue Vitamin E..."

Lynn