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Anonymous Guest
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:39 am GMT +0000 Post subject: DMSO - good or bad? |
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for muscle injuries.
Please discuss |
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The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:01 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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sir schiltz:
The discussion will be short. On my review of PubMed, there are no published trials in peer reviewed medical literature in humans, or animals for that matter, in using DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide) for improving muscle injury recovery. DMSO is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating interstitial cystitis (an inflamatory disorder of the bladder). Natural Medicine Comprehensive Database list DMSO as safe for instillation in the bladder per FDA approved usage but lists it as possibly unsafe when used topically due to likelyhood of impurities that readily disolve in DMSO. Commertially procured DMSO is not of the same purity as that used for FDA drug approved uses and reasearch. DMSO readily penetrates the skin and will enhances the absorption of potentially toxic impurities. I cannot make any recommendations endorsing this type of usage.
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:58 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Understood, thanks Doc. I don't think I'll try it out. |
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dennibw New
Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 69
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:07 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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I've had to use DMSO on patients (fortunately very rarely) in veterinary medicine. You don't want to mess wiith this stuff. If it gets on your skin, you have a garlic-like taste in your mouth for a couple of days & so the only thing you can eat is itallian or tex-mex because it ruins the tase of about everything else. Also, it has a very stong odor that lasts quite a while, you can't seem to get the smell out of your nose for a couple of days. I believe it is used a little more frequently in horses, but overall, it's not really used any more. I've been told that elderly people used to used it for arthritis back in the day, but the practice was stopped when they realized that the DMSO was causing either liver failure or renal failre. I don't remember which one, but either one is bad ju-ju. |
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