soficrow
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(4/22/04 9:53 am)
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Why I cancelled my Colonoscopy
Hi All,
Like many of us, I am at risk for polyps and colorectal and stomache cancer. My FMD/fibromyalgia symptoms include sometimes excruciating abdominal pain that changed and got worse after I got ulcers [dx H. Pylori, the bacteria that causes ulcers]. …FMD lesions are found with stomach and intestinal cancers – and H. Pylori is known to trigger cell mutations to cancer.
I was scheduled for a colonoscopy earlier this year and rescheduled 3 times. Finally I cancelled, because of the risk of prion infection from medical instruments.
Different infectious prion strains are found throughout the body – including in the intestines and lymph and blood vessels. Different strains infect different cells and symptoms change depending on the cells infected. Chronic and subclinical prion infections are not yet officially acknowledged as prion diseases, but are very well documented and known to exist.
Infectious prions contaminate medical instruments – and they’re almost impossible to kill. Normal sterilization and decontamination procedures just make them mutate into new strains.
I asked my hospital what procedures they use to protect patients from exposure to infectious prions on medical instruments. …They use disposable instruments wherever possible, otherwise they use standard disinfectant and decontamination procedures (which don’t kill prions). …The scopes used for colonoscopies cost $10,000 – they’re not disposable and once they’re contaminated with infectious prions, they can’t be sterilized effectively.
There is a new product that kills prions in development – it’s an enzyme that destroys the little critter. Hopefully, it will be on the market soon.
I cancelled my colonoscopy based on this information, and asked to be notified when the hospital adopts effective prion decontamination procedures. From now on, I will ask the same questions about any instruments used for any procedure that’s recommended for me – and I won’t go in unless the instruments are disposable, or until the prion decontamination problem is handled.
Peace and hugs, Lanie
PS. There are tests and vaccines for all the problems that ail us, including FMD – but they’re held up in the US Patent Office. Ask me why I’m steamed.
PPS. VACCINES WORK – not just to prevent the disease, but to treat it once it’s established.
PPPS. FMD can be passed on congenitally – just like any prion disease. But FMD is NOT genetic; this has been proved over and over and over again. The focus on “genetics” just pushes the idea that some people are inherently weak and “genetically inferior,” while others are naturally strong, healthy and “genetically superior.” It’s not true. Like prion diseases, FMD is multifactorial. All the evidence shows that FMD starts with an underlying infection, probably an infectious prion, then spreads and changes in the body depending on our exposure to other factors.
Which is good news – it means vaccines work – and if our government ever approves the 300-odd FMD vaccine patents sitting on the shelf right now, we can be treated without angios, surgery or ‘genetic modifications.’
REFERENCES
QUOTE: “It is not yet known how many people are infected, or have been infected, by contaminated instruments. …demands for costs to be reduced in the healthcare system are in clear contradiction to risk-reducing efforts.”
SOURCE: “Prion infection on the rise? Hospitals in need of modern risk management.”
Swiss Re (The world’s largest life and health reinsurer). Google provides a link to this report, but I can’t even get in to the cache any more and direct acces is now “secured.” Go ahead and run the search – you might have better luck than I do.
REVIEW: “Mad cow time bomb is still ticking”
www.smh.com.au/articles/2...m=storyrhs
Also see “Emerging Risks”
www.asstech.com/en/downlo..._Risks.pdf
QUOTE: “mutant PrP in the brain and spinal cord, intermediate levels in skeletal muscle, heart, and testis and low levels in kidney, lung, spleen, intestine, and stomach. Up to 70% of the PG14 PrP expressed in peripheral tissues”
SOURCE: “Primary myopathy and accumulation of PrPSc-like molecules in peripheral tissues...” Neurobiol Dis. 2001 Apr;8(2):279-88. Chiesa R, Pestronk A, Schmidt RE, Tourtellotte WG, Ghetti B, Piccardo P, Harris DA. Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. PMID: 11300723
“Chronic Subclinical Prion Disease Induced by Low-Dose Inoculum” Received September 24, 2001; J Virol. 2002 March; 76 (5): 2510–2517 Alana M. Thackray,1 Michael A. Klein,2 Adriano Aguzzi,3 and Raymond Bujdoso www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov...tid=153817
“Volcanic pool enzyme kills prions”
www.newscientist.com/news...ns99993999
Non-disclosure policies, for example:
“British Women Fear CJD/Mad Cow Infection From Unsterile Instruments” dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/...cow_3.html
“Sterile Supply Faces New Challenges: Prion diseases dominate the agenda at DGSV Congress”
www.efhss.com/html/conf/d...report.htm
“INFECTION OF LEMURS WITH MAD COW DISEASE REVEALS PRION DISTRIBUTION PATTERN” March 29, 1999
131.104.232.9/fsnet/1999/...-99-02.txt
“Monoclonal antibody against a peptide of human prion protein discriminates between Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease-affected and normal brain tissue” J. Biol. Chem. 2003, Curin erbec V. and al.
“BSE risk to US vaccines” Read the minutes of the FDA’s TSE Advisory Committee meeting.
www.mad-cow.org/00/oct00_news.html#ccc
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