Teeth going grey?

[Seasprite]

Hi, I've been on antibiotics for 3.5 months now. I am looking in the mirror and my teeth look really dingy grey where before the enamel was more white yellow. More to freak out about. Has this happend to you anyoen know anything about it?

I am so so so so so so so tired.

I have not been leaving the house much. I have been sleeping a lot.

I started doing cat's claw now too.

wishing you healing,

sprite

[jonsi]

Mmmm hmmm! Yes my teeth are a strange color too, but but due to antibiotics. (It's the Morgellons.)

IMHO, antibiotics do not help in the long run.

Last time I had dental work done the assistant had a difficult time matching my tooth color to the composite fillings.

Seasprite, I'm sending you love and a "prayer" as I write this. I want everyone to get better!

In the white light,
~jonsi

[Seasprite]

Thanks Jonsi, good to hear from you here.

Love to you also, Sprite

[Sadsack]

Seasprite -
I googled "antibiotics and teeth turning gray", as I had heard something about that years ago ("pre" Morgellons) and came across this fabulous site:

Antibiotics

It goes into everything about antibiotics (negative effects) and lists natural alternatives. The whole article is too long to copy and paste, but this is the section on alternatives. I left out colloidal silver and certain other details of the other natural alternatives to keep the length down. It is well worth reading the entire article.

Natural Alternatives

Oregano Oil
The leaves and flowering tops of more than two dozen fragrant plant species are endowed with a distinctive mildly minty flavor widely recognized as the herb oregano. The most popular of the Origanum species in North America is Origanum vulgare, otherwise known as European oregano or origanum. It’s actually a member of the mint family (Labiatae).

Health Benefits

The essential oil distilled from oregano contains varying amounts of thymol and carvacrol, compounds that can apparently inhibit the growth of fungi, worms, and possibly other organisms. In fact, some sources even recommend rubbing a drop or two of oregano oil into an area that is itching due to athlete’s foot, a common condition caused by the Tinea versicolor fungus.


Mild stomach-settling and cough-clearing qualities are attributed to oregano oil; they are likely due to the presence of thymol and carvacrol as well. (Another common culinary herb—thyme—also contains high concentrations of these compounds.) A drop or two of oregano oil mixed with milk or juice may well calm an upset stomach and aid digestion.


Disease-fighting antioxidants have been identified in oregano, although it’s not clear whether they appear in the oil as well as in the leaves and other above-ground parts of the plant. Oregano oil has been used as an antiseptic in hand cleansers and shampoos, and as a remedy for headaches when rubbed into the temples.


Oil of oregano may help to:

* Alleviate toothaches. Diluted oregano oil rubbed gently into inflamed and aching gums around an ailing tooth may ease pain. The oregano oil may even help to stave off infection given its slight antiseptic properties.

* Fight Candida overgrowth syndrome. Some nutritionally oriented doctors enlist oregano oil’s antifungal actions to fight this syndrome, a condition believed to be caused by an imbalance in the body’s fungi and bacteria levels.


Dosage Information

* For toothache: Dilute oregano oil in a small amount of water and dab onto the painful area three or four times a day, as needed for discomfort.

* For Candida overgrowth syndrome: Place three drops of oregano oil into an empty gelatin capsule or mix the same amount of oil into juice and take three times a day. Several weeks of continuous use may be required for the anti-fungal properties of oil of oregano to clear up a deep-seated Candida infection.


Olive Leaf
The olive tree has been held in high esteem throughout history. Olive is a small evergreen tree native to Mediterranean regions. The characteristic green to blue-black fruit of this tree yields useful, edible oil. Both the oil and the dried green-grayish colored leaves are used medicinally.

Europeans found it had a powerful anti-bacterial effect. In the late 1960’s, research by scientists at a major American pharmaceutical company showed that elenolic acid also inhibited the growth of viruses...it stopped every virus that it was tested against....demonstrated a killer effect against many viruses, bacteria and parasitic protozoans. Among other effects, the compound was found to be potent against a variety of viruses associated with the common cold.


Active Constituents

Olive leaf has a wide number of constituents, including oleuropein and several types of flavonoids (e.g., rutin, apigenin, luteolin). While olive leaf is traditionally associated with a wide number of medicinal claims, few of these have been verified by experimental study. In an animal study oleuropein (when given by injection or in intravenous form) was found to decrease blood pressure (e.g., systolic and diastolic) and dilate the coronary arteries surrounding the heart. This ability to lower blood pressure may justify the traditional use of olive leaf in the treatment of mild to moderate hypertension. However, human studies are needed to clearly establish olive leaf as a potential treatment for high blood pressure.

In addition, a test tube study has revealed that oleuropein inhibits the oxidation of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. LDL oxidation is one part in a series of damaging events that, if left unchecked, can lead to the development of atherosclerosis. This action may provide one clue as to why those consuming a Mediterranean-based diet may lower their risk of developing atherosclerosis.


Oleuropein from olives may also have antibacterial properties. . The effective amount of olive leaf for human use is not established. To make a tea, steep 1 teaspoon (5 grams) of dried leaves in 1 cup (250 ml) of hot water for 10–15 minutes. Dried leaf extracts containing 6–15% oleuropein are available commercially, but no standard amount has been established. The safety of olive leaf has not been established in pregnancy. Olive leaf can be irritating to the stomach lining and should be taken with meals.


Garlic
Allium sativum is probably the best known herb in the world for its medicinal and culinary uses. It is a member of the Lily family, one of its closest relatives being the onion. Garlic is a herb which has long been prized for its culinary and nutritional properties. Garlic may help to maintain a healthy circulation when taken as part of a healthy lifestyle and diet. Garlic is mentioned in Old English writings from the tenth to the fifteenth centuary. Chaucer, for example, refers to Garlic as 'Poor Man's Treacle', meaning an elixir or 'cure-all'. Garlic was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians, chewed by Greek Olympian atheletes and thought to be essential for keeping vampires at bay! But it is also good for zapping bacteria, keeping your heart healthy, warding off coughs and colds. For many centuries now, Garlic has been used to fight various infections. Garlic is the only antibiotic that can actually kill infecting bacteria and at the same time protect the body from the poisons that are causing the infection. It is known that the most sensitive bacterium to garlic is the deadly Bacillus anthracis which produces the poison anthrax. Even the forefather of antibiotic medicine Louis Pasteur acknowledged garlic to be as effective as penicillin and late studies showed similar activity to a more modern antibiotic, Chloramphenicol. Even the blood of garlic eaters can kill bacteria and it is also reported that the vapor from freshly cut garlic can kill bacteria at a distance of 20 cms! Another once common, and apparently returning disease, tuberculosis was treated with garlic very successfully as the invading organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis is sensitive to several of the sulphur components found in garlic.


Long before antiobiotics were developed in 1928, Garlic was often used in the treatment of infections from bronchitis and tuberculosis to dysentry and typhoid as well as your general colds, flu, ear, nose & throat infections. During World War I, Garlic was used to dress the wounds of soldiers, with fantastic results. It certainly saved many lives by stopping infections in the wounds turning to blood poisoning. It is still not fully understood how Garlic achieves its antibiotic action, though its pungent, odorous volatile oil, allicin, is considered to be one of the main active constituents. Other therapeutic constituents present in Garlic are, vitamins A, B, C and E; minerals such as Germanium (assists toxic metal elimination, restores pH - acid & alkaline balance - and is an immune enhancer); and Selenium (an essential nutrient, and antioxidant which enhances the body's own healing mechanisms).


Coconut Oil
Coconuts are a source of important physiologically functional components, found in the fat part of whole coconut, in the fat part of desiccated coconut and in the extracted coconut oil. Lauric acid, the major fatty acid from the fat of the coconut, has long been recognized for the unique properties that it lends to nonfood uses in the soaps and cosmetics industry. More recently, lauric acid has been recognized for its unique properties in food use, which are related to its antiviral, antibacterial and antiprotozoal functions. These fatty acids are found in the largest amounts only in traditional lauric fats, especially from coconut. Natural coconut fat in the diet leads to a normalization of body lipids, protects against alcohol damage to the liver and improves the immune system's anti-inflammatory response. Certain fatty acids and their derivatives can have adverse effects on various microorganisms. Those microorganisms that are inactivated include bacteria, yeast, fungi and enveloped viruses.


Lauric acid is a medium-chain fatty acid which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body. Monolaurin is the antiviral, antibacterial and antiprotozoal monoglyceride used by the human and animal to destroy lipid-coated viruses such as HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, various pathogenic bacteria including hemophilus influenzae, staphylococcus epidermidis and group B gram-positive streptococcus, listeria monocytogenes streptococcus agalactiae, helicobacter pylori, groups A, F and G streptococci, gram-positive organisms, and some gram-negative organisms if pretreated with a chelator; also, a number of fungi, yeast and protozoa such as giardia lamblia have been found to be inactivated or killed by lauric acid or monolaurin. The fungi include several species of ringworm.