Staff infection — I’ve been treated for one going on 5 months!! Please HELP!

I recognize that hanging around with people you work with–your staff–can be infectious, but I assume you are referring to the bacterial organism, Staphylococcal infection.

Usually by now, that wound has been cultured in a laboratory, so that the antibiotic regimen you have been on was determined to be appropriate for your particular strain of infection. If the infection has not been cultured, it should be and you should take the appropriate antibiotic for it.

I’m also assuming that this is not a bone infection (osteomyelitis), which requires long-term antibiotics intravenously; nor is it a deep, chronic infection, and it is not MRSA, methicillin (and most other antibiotic) resistant staphyloccus aureus.

Any chronic infection (or any infection, for that matter) means the immune system is not as strong as it should be.

So, how do you build the immune system? It starts with a good diet, especially avoidance of all sugar which interferes with the immune system. Next, take a potent multi-vitamin and essential fatty acids for basic cellular function, along with drinking lots of water for good hydration. The next step is to start taking products that build the natural killer cells in your body—β-glucan, colostrum, and mushrooms—maitake and sheitake.

Any chronic infection may have viral or other organisms that are not responsive to antibiotics. There are neutraceuticals that are effective against those organisms. Try high doses of vitamin C orally, 6,000 to 10,000 mg per day. Intravenous administration of 20,000 mg of vitamin C over 3 hours is even more effective. Add citricidal, echanacea, oil of oregano to also help kill the organisms. High doses of resveratrol, cat’s claw and/or andrographis are more expensive, but also very effective at both building the immune system and killing organisms.

Some of you asked me how I administer oil of oregano; I simply add part of a dropper full into a swallow of room temperature, pure water, and drink it quickly.  It has a “hot” pizza-like flavor, but it is very effective and usually knocks a cold quickly.  You can also place oil of oregano directly upon an inflamed area, and it is often effective in that way for reducing inflammation.