Article by Luke Curtis, M.D., C.I.H.



A number of toxins produced by molds (mycotoxins) have been shown to cause bleeding or hemorrhage in experimental animals. Hemorrhage-causing molds have been found in a number of different mycotoxins, including the Trichothecene mycotoxins produced by Stachybotrys, the fuminosin mycotoxins produced by Fusarium, and aflatoxins produced by some species of Aspergillus.
Exposure to Stachybotrys, and other molds and their mycotoxins, have been associated with life threatening lung hemorrhage in children. Ruth Etzel, M.D. and colleagues published a paper in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, August 1998 which described 10 cases of infant pulmonary hemorrhage in Cleveland. These infants suffered severe lung bleeding (hemorrhage), difficulties breathing, blue color, and acute fatigue. Infant lung hemorrhage can occasionally be fatal.

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Article by Dr. Lynn Jennings, M.D.



Dear Readers,

Skin problems are the bane of everyone but the dermatologist. In traditional medicine, the rules for treating dermatitis are this: "If it is dry, wet it. If it is wet, dry it. If it doesn't respond to treatment, refer it to a dermatologist." Not surprisingly, this doesn't treat the cause. With that said, let's begin this month's case study.

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Article by Kyle Drew



Eventually, I'll get around to writing an article about some illness, and it won't be autobiographical. But it seems that almost every time Doug asks us to write on a particular ailment, I've actually had that problem, myself!

Allergies are no exception. Oh, how I used to love this time of year, simply because the cold of winter was over, but how I used to hate it because the tyranny of allergies was at hand. Spring meant shorts and flip-flops and t-shirts, but it also meant that I'd be sneezing and stuffy-headed, and eventually, laid up with a "secondary" sinus infection.

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Article by Doug Kaufmann



Egos being what they are...

I know that I'm right on this. Fungus causes serious diseases! But I don't know to what extent I'm right, because every time it surfaces, it just as quickly disappears. In 1899, the Paris newspaper Figaro published that Dr. Bra had surely discovered the germ of cancer and that it was "a fungus like" germ. Then, Dr Bra's relevant discovery and Dr. Bra, disappeared....
Remember Dr. Karthaus in Germany curing 3 children's leukemia with a trio of potent antifungal drugs, aimed at curing their "secondary yeast overgrowth" infections caused by cancer drugs? This was published in 1999, and nothing has been published on this since, nor has Dr Karthaus ever talked about it, to the best of my knowledge. I still contend that this was a Nobel Prize winning discovery...but it's just gone.

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