Nebulizing with Hydrogen Peroxide & Lugol's Iodine for COVID/Coronavirus and Flu

Personal experience of nebulizing with Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s Iodine, steps on how to make the right solution for nebulizing for COVID-19 and Flu

• On 25th March 2021 I was down with Covid along with several family members and close friends. It has been one of the most trying medical emergencies of my life.
• This treatment potentially saved my life and helped avoid hospitalization. I did several other things which are common knowledge as shared in this post, but Nebulizing using Hydrogen Peroxide (H202) and Lugol’s Iodine (LI) was the most unique treatment.
• I am not selling you anything. You can buy some items required directly on your own. But I am listing below some of products I have used or recommend, to make it faster for you to start. I’ll keep updating these over time.
• This is a first hand account and it worked ‘in addition’/’as an adjunct’ to the other interventions and protocols.
• This is not intended to be medical advice and is being shared for informational and educational purposes only.

Table of Contents / Jump to:

• • • My personal experience
    • What are we nebulizing
    • What you need to buy/have handy
    • 6 Steps to make the solution and nebulize
    • Science behind the effectiveness of Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s Iodine
    • Links to expert interviews/podcasts/videos/articles

Possibly the most effective yet not-well-known treatment for COVID-19 – Nebulizing Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s Iodine!

With the havoc created by the second wave in India for the last few weeks, and having lived through it, I am writing this post with the hope that people who are doing home treatment and management (under guidance of a Doctor) will be able to use this for themselves or their families. Also it’ll be great if any hospital or medical facility can add this to their treatment protocol,

It’ll also help relieve the stress on the hospitals which are struggling due to shortage of beds, oxygen, specific medicines etc.

I heard about it first on Dr. Mercola’s podcast in August 2020 and immediately bought the nebulizer and hydrogen peroxide, as recommended by the experts. Since I already have been using Lugol’s Iodine for a couple of years now so I didn’t have to buy another one.

If you do not have Covid yet, please please still purchase the items shared in this post, and do a dry run of this protocol, so you are ready when you need to use it and can nip the infection in the bud.

Ideally nebulizing (with Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s Iodine) is most effective as a ‘mono treatment’ if you do it the same day you have a hint of the onset of flu or covid associated symptoms (scratchy throat etc.).

Please do not wait in such a situation! The sooner we intervene using nebulizing and other strategies like gargling etc., the greater impact and faster resolution we will get.

Alternatively if you or someone you know, is already Covid Positive (whether mild or severe symptoms), this intervention does not interfere with other treatments that’ll be going on.

My Personal Experience with Nebulizing while I had Covid.

It helped the severity of Covid to remain mild for my wife and definitely helped me during that 1 week when I had some severe symptoms. It helped my 81 years old Aunt improve without requiring hospitalisation and also got her Oxygen saturation from 88 to 94 in 2 sessions (within 1.5 hours) without using any oxygen. Your own experience with this may vary.

I  think this is the best kept secret that no one is talking about. I’ll share all relevant links below, so you can go to the original sources and do your own reading and analysis.

Cost:
There is an initial cost of around Rs. 4000 to Rs. 5000, when you have to purchase these products (all listed below). 
If you consider the per session usage cost, it’s likely the cheapest and most effective intervention for not only Covid, but also for any viral or microbial infection.

There are many other interventions which are extremely effective. For eg.
– Intra Venous (IV) high dose Vitamin C
– Ozone Therapy
etc.

But these are usually difficult to do, require some expertise and also some infrastructure. Nebulizing with Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s iodine is the cheapest and the most effective intervention that one can make and use at home.

Here is a ‘Master List of COVID 19 Home Treatment Strategies and Personal Experience‘

 

What are we Nebulizing?

We are nebulizing a mix of:

0.1% to 0.04% Hydrogen Peroxide solution in Saline water (Step wise details given below)
+
1 to 2 drops of 2% Lugol’s Iodine solution.

Very Important: Chances are that you can get both the Nebulizer and Hydrogen Peroxide from your local city medical stores (most tier 1 and tier 2 cities in India will have them).

I don’t think you’ll find Lugol’s Iodine easily in most cities (including metros), therefore it’ll likely be an online order from Amazon. This could take a week or more to reach you.

You can start nebulizing only with Hydrogen Peroxide as well (once it is diluted as shared below) to reap the benefits of H202 immediately, while you wait for Lugol’s Iodine to reach you.

 

What you need to buy/have handy

Please don’t wait for anyone in your family or you to get Covid before buying these ingredients/items. Please buy them beforehand, and after you have used it (if at all), please share it with others.

This advice by Dr. Mercola of not waiting to buy these till we actually have Covid, actually saved my entire family so much hassle and aided in safely coming out of Covid without hospitalization. I am merely paying it forward.

Here is what you’ll need (total investment around Rs. 4000 to Rs. 5000).

1) Nebulizer

This is the machine that will help convert the medicine or any solution added, to steam (via pressurised air passing through a tube into the medicine container) making it easy for the medicine to be inhaled and enter the lungs.

Don’t buy the cheap hand-held ones as they are not very effective. Buy the desktop/tabletop version.
Investment is around Rs. 2000.
Since this will come in handy for any sinus or flu infections, and even for general health, please consider this as a long term investment.

I can’t emphasise the importance of keeping this handy preemptively. I bought the nebulizer and other items about 5 months back. When I was detected positive, I was able to make use of it immediately.

Product links:
This is the Nebulizer that I am using

Note:
– Please feel free to buy any tabletop nebulizer (or any other product listed here) directly from your nearby chemist or medical store. You don’t have to buy what I used.
– Please do share with others (the masks etc. should be properly sterilised before another person uses the same Nebulizer).
– Any NGO or doctors who want to do Seva and are doing so many other things to help the masses, please consider starting this or making physical stations or kiosks for people to come in and nebulize.

2) Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide 30%

It is said that the lower grade H2O2 have more (potentially toxic) stabilisers and additives in them. Some experts also say that since we will dilute the 3% to anything from 0.1% to 0.04%, the toxic load is very low.

To be on the safer side, after researching, I bought 30% food grade H202 from a local Chemicals shop in my city, and then diluted it with ‘Sterilised Water’ to 3%. I have explained all of this in steps below.

There are some companies in India which mention that their 3% hydrogen peroxide is ultra pure and without any stabilisers. I haven’t used them (but others have as per the reviews of the product), but I am listing them below.

Product links:
Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide 3% (I have not used this product)

3) Lugol’s Iodine 2%:

Please don’t use any other iodine (povidone iodine etc.).

Lugol’s iodine is unique in its formulation as it has Potassium Iodide (10%) along with Elemental Iodine (5%) mixed together with distilled water. This is what makes it so effective. Lugol’s Iodine solution was developed in 1829 by ‘Jean Guillaume August Lugol’, a French Physician, initially as a cure for Tuberculosis.

There are other products apart from J Crow’s in the market, but my wife and I have been using Jcrows for the last 2 years for optimising our Iodine intake. I am listing one product which is cheaper and made in India, but I haven’t used so can’t vouch for them. Since there may be a shortage of J. Crow’s Lugol’s Iodine and delivery may take time, you can alternatively buy this as well.

Normally you won’t find JCrow’s LI in medical stores and it needs to be bought online.

While writing this post, I could not find the 2% available on Amazon India. There is a 5% Lugol’s (link below) which can also be bought.

Product links:
J.Crow’s Lugols Solution of Iodine 5% (30 ml/1 Oz)
J.Crow%27s Lugol’s Iodine Solution, 2oz (J.Crow’s 2 Pack) – Set of 2 (I have been using this)
Bio Balance Lugol’s 2 % 2 fl. oz. Extra Pure Grade (I have not used this, but it is cheaper and may be more readily in stock).

4) Sterile Water

We need sterile water to dilute Hydrogen Peroxide 30% (or any other strength of H2O2 you may have 35% or 12% etc.) to 3%.

What is sterile water? Any water which is devoid of any living matter, contaminants or pathogens is sterile water.

You can get this from a chemist/medical store or better still you can make it easily at home (as done for centuries) by using the boiling water method.

On 26th March I made sterile water at home and used it for diluting the 30% Hydrogen Peroxide solution to 3% (details given below).

Do It Yourself (DIY) Sterile Water: You simply take ‘filtered water’ in a stainless steel pot and boil it for 20 to 25 minutes and you’ll get sterile water.

Make sure the steel pot is clean first (wash it with filter water so there is no residual soap as well).

Storage of Sterile water (if you ended up boiling more) should be in a sterilised glass or stainless steel bottle.

5) Saline Solution:

You can buy this from a medical store.

DIY Normal Saline: To make at home (what I did) the proportions to use are:

1 cup of sterile water (boil filter water for 20 minutes as shared above) added to
Half teaspoon (tsp) of non-iodized salt (I used Himalayan Pink Salt).

Saline Water (DIY) = 1 Cup Sterile Water (237 ml) + 1/2 Teaspoon (tsp) of Himalayan Pink Salt or Sendha Namak.

Note:
– Do not use the regular iodised salt.
– We have to use Saline solution and not normal filter water or distilled water. There is a strong reason for this.
Using ‘normal saline’ (which is 0.9% sodium chloride) prevents the osmotic differential that can damage the lung cells. This concentration also makes its osmotic pressure close to that of human blood.

More about saline and cells:

“The interiors of cells contain salts and other solutes that dilute the intracellular water. If the cell membrane is permeable to water, placing the cell in contact with pure water will draw water into the cell, tending to rupture it.

This is easily and dramatically seen if red blood cells are placed in a drop of water and observed through a microscope as they burst. This is the reason that “normal saline solution”, rather than pure water, is administered in order to maintain blood volume or to infuse therapeutic agents during medical procedures.”
Original Source

6 Steps to make the Solution and Nebulize

Step 1: Make 3% H202 from 30% Hydrogen Peroxide

Dilute 30% Hydrogen Peroxide (food grade) to 3%.
For this take 1 part 30% H202 and mix with 9 parts Sterile Water.

I used a clean stainless steel spoon (put it in boiling water for about 10 minutes) and after it cooled down, I used it for measurement.
1 table spoon of 30% H2O2 poured in a glass (sterilised).
Then I added 9 tablespoons of ‘Sterile Water’ to the glass.
Now I had 3% H202 ready in that glass.

For storing the final preparation (3% H202), it vital that you store it in a dark bottle to avoid light to penetrate. The reason is that Hydrogen Peroxide breaks down faster in presence of light and heat (you’ll notice bubbles as H202 breaks down).

Please do not use the above (3%) for nebulizing directly. It is not ready yet. This still has to be diluted anywhere from 30 times to 50 times before it’s ready.

Step 2: Make 0.04% H202.

For this, we simply need to add the following:

3cc of the 3% H202 (made in step 1 above)
+ (add it to)
250 cc of ‘Saline Water’.

Note:
1 cc = 1 ml.
Also a 3 cc or 3 ml of solution is roughly 0.6 teaspoon (tsp).

Doing the above will get the concentration of Hydrogen Peroxide in the final 250 cc/ml solution to 0.04%.

Some experts (like Dr. David Brownstein) has been using 0.04%, while Dr. Mercola have been using 0.1% H202 in nebulizing.

Therefore I simply added 1 teaspoon (tsp) of the 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to the 250 ml of saline solution.

This final solution of 250 ml and some change (1 teaspoon) is what we will use along with Lugol’s solution. As you can see, a single bottle of 30% Hydrogen Peroxide (food grade) can easily last for hundreds of nebulizing sessions!

Tip for storage:
– Keep the saline solution in airtight container in the refrigerator.
– Home made Saline solution can get contaminated with pathogenic bacteria within 24 hours. Chilling it for storage protects the solution for longer.

Step 3: Setup your nebulizer

This is very simple to setup and even if this is the first time you are doing it’ll you can do it within a 10 to 15 minutes (including unpacking and browsing through the instructions). Therefore I am not sharing any details about this.

Please properly clean/sanitise the mask before each usage.

Step 4: Have the Lugol’s Iodine (2%) handy

What if you have all other items except ‘Lugol’s Iodine’ (you have ordered it and it’ll take a few days to reach you)?
In such a situation you can start nebulizing only with Hydrogen Peroxide as well (once it is diluted as shared below) to reap the benefits of H202 immediately, while you wait for Lugol’s Iodine to reach you.

Step 5: Add the solution to the Nebulizer ‘medicine container’

Each nebulizer ‘medicine container’ will have a low and max marker. Usually the lowest marker is the 3 cc one.

Step 5.a) Add 3 ml/cc of hydrogen peroxide
Using a clean dropper I added around 3 cc of the diluted 0.04% Hydrogen Peroxide into the ‘medicine container’ of the nebulizer.

Step 5.b) Add 1 to 2 drops of the Lugol’s iodine using the dropper provided in the lugol’s solution bottle.
I personally used 1 drop most times. For family members who also had more severity of Covid symptoms, I used 2 drops.

Finally the solution that you need to nebulize (around 0.04% Hydrogen Peroxide in saline water + 1 to 2 drops of 2% Lugol’s Solution), is ready!

Step 6: Start Nebulizing.

Inhale from nose, exhale from nose.
Also in between, inhale from mouth and exhale from mouth.
If you can, try to take a few breaths where you are inhaling deep and then trying to hold it in for a few seconds. I used to find this difficult to do as I’d get a cough when deep inhaling (especially during the trying 5 to 7 days).

How many times to nebulize? During the really tough phase of around 7 days, I tried to nebulize minimum of 3 times (but aiming for 5 times). After that I was nebulizing once or twice a day.

For really severe situations, it can also be administered every 1 hour for 4 to 5 times.

Note:
– Making all the solutions for the first time (as explained above) took me some time (approximately 2 hours as I was reading and verifying everything).
– But once the solutions are ready, just ongoing usage takes only 1 to 2 minutes to setup and then around 3 to 4 minutes of nebulizing time.
– Please keep the nebulizer (all parts), the droppers, different bottles etc. Absolutely clean.
– Due to Lugol’s iodine, after some usage, you may feel some dryness in your throat. My aunt felt it and I asked them to still continue using the nebulizer, as the benefits far outweigh the slight discomfort of dryness. And of course, she had some coconut water and other home made remedies which work for her like Besan Sheera etc. Which helped with the throat dryness.

Science behind the effectiveness of Hydrogen Peroxide and Lugol’s Iodine

If you are like me, you’ll want to understand the science around how H202 and Lugol’s Iodine work.

I am sharing a section of the explanation given by Dr. Thomas Levy (one of the experts on of using H202) and I’ll share a link to his article so you can take a deeper dive.

“Like all other agents capable of causing oxidation, HP is toxic in high enough concentrations. However, at the low concentration levels to be discussed in this article, it is completely nontoxic. Even the best pharmaceutical drugs can harm and kill. Over 100,000 Americans die annually due to the toxicity of prescription drugs properly dosed and administered for various conditions. Nobody dies from hydrogen peroxide applied at its established, therapeutic concentrations.

A tiny nonionic molecule, HP readily crosses the membranes of both pathogens and cells in the body. HP is literally present everywhere in the body, both inside the cells and in the extracellular spaces. The normal physiology of the body involves the continual generation of HP throughout the body. Furthermore, HP molecules are actually quite stable and not prone to oxidize surrounding molecules except when certain local conditions exist, as is present in acute and chronic infections. Pathogens have high levels of reactive (unbound) iron inside them, and it is a process of electron donation from iron to HP inside the pathogen-filled cells or inside the invading pathogens themselves that forms the highly destructive oxidizing agent known as hydroxyl radical. Hydroxyl radicals quickly kill pathogens and also readily destroy cells that are already heavily laden with pathogens.

Because of this ability of HP to generate hydroxyl radical in iron-filled pathogens, it serves as a primary way in which the body mounts a natural defense against infection. In every sense of the word, HP is the body’s natural antibiotic. The generation of HP has been shown to increase in the presence of greater degrees of infection and inflammation. Activated phagocytes responding to a site of infection and inflammation naturally generate massive amounts of HP into the extracellular space to help deal with the pathogens.  Very interestingly, phagocytes also have high concentrations of vitamin C, which can help supply the electrons to HP via the free iron present to form hydroxyl radicals. Also, vitamin C is known to help generate increased amounts of extracellular HP for better pathogen-killing.”

Please read the entire article on Dr. Levy’s website.

 

Links to expert interviews/podcasts/videos/articles

Whatever I have shared here or know about nutrition and holistic health over the years is from listening to experts, reading books and then applying in real life and coming to my own conclusions.  I recommend you do the same.

I am listing below the real Masters/experts who are teaching this to the world and I am simply doing my part of accentuating their message, with the hope that this will help many people, like it helped me and my close family and friends.

The foremost experts in this field who I have followed and learned about this from are:
Dr. David Brownstein
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Dr. Thomas Levy

Here are the links to the podcast show page / blog posts. I spent a few dozen hours in studying this. If you want to understand the science behind this in more detail please go to the following links:

How Nebulized Peroxide Helps Against Respiratory Infections
Is This the Most Effective Weapon Against Viral Infections?
https://www.drbrownstein.com/

I sincerely hope that this intervention will help many people like it helped me and my family and friends.

 

 

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