Re: Fungal Eye Infection Answers-

[Guest guest]

I'm not familiar with the " dreaded BC " Please enlighten me.

Thanks,

Rosie

KIDSWITHMCS/

>>>>Sounds suspiciously like the dreaded Benzalkonium Chloride

reactivity striking again!

I wonder if the NON contact lense wearers were using eyedrops with

BC preservative.- >>

[Guest guest]

> I'm not familiar with the " dreaded BC " Please enlighten me.

Thanks, Rosie<

> ton Doctor Looking for Fungal Eye Infection Answers

> Posted 4/6/2006 03:37 PM

> WTRF - Wheeling,WV

>

> http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory & storyid=9965

>

> 50 cases in 12 states so far

> Story by Ben Email | Bio

>

> Health officials are seeing a rash of fungal eye infections,

> especially among users of contact lenses.

" Sounds suspiciously like the dreaded Benzalkonium Chloride

reactivity striking again! - "

Rosie. The person I carried out of a moldy house in 2000 suffered

from chronic eye pain and increasing chemical sensitivities.

Her eyes kept getting worse and her opthalmologist-father prescribed

eye drops. She kept swearing to him that the eyedrops intensified

her pain, but he insisted that this was impossible - so she kept

using them. After she progressed to the point where she had almost

lost her sight, he consulted with his colleagues who all agreed that

her attribution of eyedrop-exacerbation was without basis, and just

something that she had mentally seized upon as a result of her

hysterical distress at having an infection that was not responding

to treatment - and recommended increased use of these same eyedrops.

Out of sheer desperation, she started researching the eyedrops

herself and found that a vastly increasing percentage of the

population is suffering from an intense reactivity to the

preservative used in some brands of eyedrops - Benzalkonium

Chloride: A substance considered to be so utterly safe and

innocuous that it wasn't even listed as an ingredient. A call to

the manufacturer revealed that this was indeed the preservative

being used.

Benzalkonium Chloride has since been implicated in masking and

enabling ocular infections in a significant percentage of patients -

a peculiarity that is better known among groups of chemically

damaged persons than among opthalmologists - who adhere to the

manufacturers claims that it is not proven to be harmful, except

perhaps for a few individual flukes who can only blame themselves

for a reaction to a substance that is harmless to most people.

The interesting part is that after a few years of mold avoidance,

she had another encounter with BC and the reaction was far less. My

moldie friend remains unconvinced that her prior reactivity to BC

was exaggerated and has reached the conclusion that mold avoidance

had an unexpected effect in decreasing her response to this chemical.

Naturally, this has been met with total disbelief by her doctors.

Since I had the experience of chemical sensitivities abating as a

result of mold avoidance, I see no particular reason to doubt her.

-