We’ve all heard of saline solutions over the years, most typically in reference to eye drops or throat gargles. In both cases, the solution washes and disinfects the eye or the throat.
We’ve all heard of Iodine being an important part of a first aid kit, and perhaps even used it as a wound cleanser, staining our skin yellow or purple in the process. As we’ve learned about thyroid health, we’ve discovered Iodine is a necessary contributor to proper thyroid function.
We’ve all heard of Hydrogen Peroxide too, generally in situations involving disinfecting surfaces or as a wound cleanser to bubble out the dirt and grime.
But what if these three solutions could be used together?!
A major public service announcement has regularly gone out around the world to “sanitize, sanitize, sanitize!!!”. The effort has been ostensibly to stop a virus, but continually recommending methods used to stop bacteria! Not all anti-bacterial methods are also anti-viral. Some are, but many clearly state on their labels that they block or kill a certain percentage of bacteria only, never mentioning any effect against viruses. Now either COVID-19 is a virus, or it’s being misrepresented as a virus when in reality it is a bacteria. From the behaviour exhibited among those who catch it, it is viral, not bacterial. In addition, anti-viral means have successfully dealt with it in anyone brave enough to put the measures into practice against mainstream medical’s “better judgement”.
Two of the most maligned treatment methods have had success rates around the world treating malaria and similar parasitic infections as well as Ebola and various viruses. Namely, HCQ and Ivermectin. However, governments and top medical systems have deliberately made these difficult to get for the average person, heavily downplaying their effectiveness while recent communications from the past 20 years reveal those who were about to release COVID-19 on the world, knew these antidotes existed and that they were effective.
It isn’t necessary to go out and lose hair trying to find these treatments however, when other methods might already be in your cupboard.
Let me introduce you to a few names and their contributions to this particular blog article: (you can look each of them up as you wish)
Paper: Povidone Iodine (PVP-I) Oro-Nasal Spray: An Effective Shield
for COVID-19 Protection for Health Care Worker (HCW), for all
Mostafa Kamal Arefin
Department of ENT & Head Neck Surgery, Dhaka Medical
College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Received: 8 February 2021 / Accepted: 22 March 2021
Association of Otolaryngologists of India 2021Pamphlet: Hypertonic Saline Nasal Irrigation
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Patient Education by University of Michigan Health SystemVarious articles: Dr. Joseph Mercola
Quoted in various articles: Dr. David Brownstein
Paper: August 18, 2021, preprint
Oronasal Hygiene with PVP-I for COVID19
Leo GoldsteinBook: Rapid Virus Recovery (all about Hydrogen Peroxide in medicine)
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD
I’d been reading a few articles by Dr Mercola regarding a saline solution that he and others were putting Hydrogen Peroxide in, and when I read the paper by the Bangladesh doctor, I realized there might be a better way to manage pre-treatment, let alone early-onset treatment, on-the-go.
Some readers will know that I am better than half way through my Natural Health Practitioner’s Diploma. In various places around North America, this training allows me to educate you on ways you can look after your health naturally, but does not allow me to diagnose or treat you directly. Any recommendations I make are just that, recommendations and not a prescription, that is for your doctor to give and ideally, a naturopathic doctor! What I share here is for your education and consideration only!
Back to the lightbulb moment now, I reread a few of the papers and articles and decided to make my own oro-nasal spray combining what Dr Mercola, Brownstein and Levy were doing, with what Arefin and the U of MHS were doing. In other words, what I am about to share comes from what MD’s and ND’s have already shared. Considering how easily people can misread information, it was important for me to take each of these various influences and ensure that my own recipe would fall within their specifications for safety and use.
To me, a Netti-pot is not practical, particularly as an allergic asthmatic, the idea of deliberately filling my lungs with water-laden air is a recipe for a terrible night’s sleep coughing it all back up! Arefin was onto something and I wanted to take his concept and merge it with the others.
The result is my Iodine Hydrogen Peroxide Saline Oro-Nasal Mist: IHPSON Mist! Here in Canada, I can’t pre-package this to sell to you because it would have to be rigorously tested (you know, what wasn’t done for the “vaccines”!!!) before final approval as a Natural Health Product. That testing costs a fair bit of time and money to meet Health Canada’s regulatory arm. The next best thing I can do is provide you with the recipe for free! If you want to donate anything, let me know if your attempt to use the sidebar donation tool works, or just send something via e-transfer or paypal to author@fa-ct.com.
If you already have too much Iodine in your body, skip that ingredient in the recipe and just be mindful of the shortened shelf life of the spray. The Iodine is both the preservative as well as a key ingredient in the overall intention for this mist.
Each in their own way, the salt, Iodine and Hydrogen Peroxide work to kill pathogens and cleanse the airways. The water is the delivery medium. If you’ve never heard of how these ingredients work, return to the top of this article, and copy/paste the titles of the various articles and papers into your search engine to find them and read them for yourself. What you will learn will help you not merely during the pandemic, but other times and seasons as well.
Here is the recipe:
IHPSON Mist Recipe and Usage
Iodine, Hydrogen Peroxide, Saline Oral-Nasal Mist
Tools you will need:
1 500ml dark-coloured bottle with a lid that seals well.
1 or more dark or opaque nasal or fine-mist spray refillable bottle for the oral-nasal spray. Make sure the bottle top creates a mist rather than a stream (or has the option for a mist) as you will use this for both your throat and your nostrils. Choose a size that will fit in your purse/bag/etc.
One 1 cup
One 1 teaspoon
One 1/4 teaspoon
One Kitchen funnel small enough bottom diameter to fit the small bottle opening.
Ingredients:
1 cup room temperature or warm water
1 tspn sea or Himalayan salt (don’t use table salt)
3 tspns 3% foodgrade hydrogen peroxide
1 1/4 tspns iodine tincture or 6 drops Lugol’s Iodine or 1/2 teaspoon of Betadine (povidone iodine)
Instructions:
Note: Salt dissolves easier in warmer water than cold. Make sure it is at least room temperature.
Using a kitchen funnel to reduce spillage, measure the salt into the dark-coloured bottle. Next, measure the water into the bottle and shake or stir to dissolve the salt. (This order keeps the salt from adhering to the funnel instead of going into the bottle)
When the salt is dissolved, using your kitchen funnel over the bottle opening, measure in your iodine, followed by your Hydrogen Peroxide. (This order ensures any iodine that stayed on the sides of the funnel gets washed into the water)
Put the lid on the bottle and shake it a bit to dispurse the iodine through the solution as it won’t dispurse itself.
Take the lid off, position your kitchen funnel over your refillable fine-mist spray bottle and carefully pour in enough to fill the bottle.
Replace the lid on your 500ml bottle and put in a dark, dry, preferably cool place for storage.
Place the spray cap on your fine-mist spray bottle and store whereever you will commonly need it.
Usage:
Take out your oral-nasal spray bottle, give it a bit of a shake to ensure the iodine didn’t separate since you used it last. If your spray cap allows for both stream and mist, turn it to the mist setting, close your eyes, and spray infront of your nose, then breathe in to get it up into your sinuses. Do the same, aiming into your mouth to the back of your throat. Breathe in as you spray to have the spray coat as much of your internal upper respiratory tract as possible. If using an actual nasal spray bottle, spray into each nostril and directly to the back of the throat.
For Maintenance:
Keep this in your glove box, purse, backpack, messenger bag, coat pocket, or wherever you will have it handy for use before and after meetings, business in public places, etc.
During illness:
Use every 3 or 4 hours, when you wake up and at bedtime.
Refill from your dark-coloured bottle from storage as often as needed.
Longevity of this solution:
Both Hydrogen Peroxide and Iodine are anti-septic in nature. Iodine drops are a way to preserve emergency water supplies for long term storage, and are used to purify untreated water sources when camping or in emergency situations. This means if you don’t have access to purified or distilled water, the presence of Iodine will do that for you, just give it 15 min or so to sit in your blended solution before first use. If your water was cloudy before proceeding with this recipe, allow the iodine in the solution 30min to an hour to purify the solution before first use.
If this recipe is made without the iodine ingredient, most sources say that a hydrogen peroxide saline solution will keep for up to a week in the fridge or a few days at room temperature.
Safety Note: While most Westerners don’t get enough iodine in their diets, it is possible to overdose on iodine. According to Dr Mercola and others, the solutions they propose for nebulizers and netti pots consist of roughly 1% iodine which shouldn’t lead to overdose. Following in those footsteps, this oro-nasal spray endeavours to maintain that 1% ratio. This ratio should keep the amount of iodine from each spray that gets absorbed through mucosal linings to be minimal. However, if you already ingest decent amounts of seaweed, scallops, saltwater fish, and dairy products, you may be close to your daily recommended intake. If you notice hyperthyroid conditions developing, cease usage of this recipe or make it without the iodine ingredient.
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