> Lots of things kill bacteria. Bleach for instance.
I'm not sure that's a reasonable comparison - this is a substance with local repute and a history of successful use.
Nobody is claiming that bleach is useful in similar applications.
I'm not sure that's a reasonable comparison - this is a substance with local repute and a history of successful use.
Nobody is claiming that bleach is useful in similar applications.
If you swim in a chlorine pool (diluted bleach) as much as I do, nothing lives on your skin for long. Swimmers don't suffer athlete's foot.
Au contraire!
Sodium hypochlorite is available globally at exceptionally low cost as household bleach in concentrations of 5%-6%.... Sodium hypochlorite has been used as an antiseptic agent in dentistry for more than a century and remains a widely used root canal irrigant at concentrations ranging from 1.0%-5.25%..... The American Dental Association Council on Dental Therapeutics has designated dilute sodium hypochlorite a "mild antiseptics mouth rinse" and suggested its use for direct application to mucous membranes.
By similar application we mean completely injested so that it goes into your digestive system and/or bloodstream and selectively kills "bad" stuff only, even in low concentrations. That's what antibiotics do and that's what's so great about them.
Nobody uses bleach for that. Bleach and alcohol kill everything they touches at high enough concentrations and barely anything if it's too low.
I'm not claiming it is any kind of substitute for antibiotics.
It's worth noting this in this context, because the mechanism the clay kills by is unknown. It maybe more similar to bleach and harmful to everything, or it maybe more targeted.