Natural Health for Life: Spider bite or staph?

We've seen a growing number of staph infections coming into the store lately. Most of them don't realize that's what it is. Usually, they think they have a spider bite or something similar, even though they don't remember being bitten. It's just a swollen place, painful, with a slight lump under the skin, that may or may not have a "head" or "bite mark" on it. Most of these do not have any fever or other signs of infection, although the pain sometimes extends through a limb (if the infection is showing up in a limb) or feels as though it is painful down to the bone.

If untreated, these will usually spread and show up in other areas of the body. (This can also happen if they are treated for a while and then stopped before completely wiped out.)

About half of the people can trace the infection to unsanitary conditions, such as having been cleaning toilets without gloves, or having had to deal with toilet or sewage overflow. The other half cannot find any reason they could have been exposed.

Something many people have found helpful in dealing with the infection is burdock. We generally give Nature's Sunshine Burdock, which gives 720 mg. of very available burdock root (Arctium lappa). Most people take 3 capsules, 4 times per day. This is combined with a 30x homeopathic sulfur, taken about 4 pellets at a time, 4 times per day. The sulfur is usually stopped when the infection seems to be gone, and the burdock is continued for another week or so after that point.

Additional relief is offered by soaking a clean cloth or towel in hot salt water, with a little extra salt applied to the cloth and then placed over the infected area up to several times a day. Care should be taken when dealing with staph infections. They can easily spread. The infected spot should not be touched, and hand-washing is important.

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