Sunlight and fresh air a natural antibiotics
Hey guys m new here this is my first blog tho i havent done introduction buh well do that later .With the discovery of antibiotics in the mid-20th century,doctors hoped that this new medication would eliminate certain diseases.At first the new medication seemed to live up to their expectation,Yet their widespread use since then has resulted in development of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Fresh air and sunshine.
You probably think I’m joking. But fresh air and sunlight are among the oldest concepts in medicine. Florence Nightingale famously promoted them. What’s more, they were effective.
She slashed hospital death rates with a host of hygiene improvements – including throwing open the windows. “It is necessary to renew the air round a sick person frequently, to carry off morbid effluvia from the lungs and skin,” she wrote.
But less well known is the fact that “Nightingale wards” , as they became known, had their long sides south-facing to let in plentiful sunlight.
Soon the health benefits of sunshine became more widely recognized, particularly for people with tuberculosis, which in Victorian times caused around one in five deaths in our crowded cities.
Sunlight not only kills airborne bacteria and those on the skin, but also seems to kill TB microbes inside the body, probably by boosting production of vitamin D, which has powerful effects on the immune system.
By the turn of the 19th century “solar clinics” were in vogue, utilizing fresh air and sunlight as part of TB treatment. Hospital beds were wheeled on to balconies or conservatories with special glazing that allowed ultraviolet light to pass through..
Is There A Fresh Air Factor?
The answer is hydroxyl radicals . These short-lived molecules are constantly produced in the atmosphere through reactions between ozone and water, catalyzed by airborne organic chemicals from plants. They kill bacteria but are (relatively) harmless to humans.
But it’s also possible to produce them synthetically and I expect devices of this type will be widely available commercially, as the obvious failure of antibiotics looms larger and larger.
The Sunlight Factor
Science has the answer here too. We know that UV light is antiseptic. But it is also supposedly dangerous.
Drenching kids with UV light to boost their vitamin D levels was fashionable when I was a kid but soon went out of favor, as it was realized that UVB damages skin. Now we even worry about UVA.
But it has been found that the most useful wavelength is 207 nm. At this wavelength the UV is absorbed by protein molecules and therefore penetrates only a short way into human cells; it does not reach the DNA to cause mutations.
Microbes, on the other hand, are so much smaller than human cells that they completely absorb the light and are zapped.
Now a lamp has been developed that emits only UV at 207 nm. Studies on cells grown in the lab have shown that this narrow band does not harm human skin tissue cultures yet kills bacteria, including MRSA.
I've written about the use of UV technology (and plain blue light) in my compendium of alternative antibiotics.
You need to get it and read it. No use waiting till somebody is deadly ill. There are countless cases of people feeling a little ill at breakfast time and being dead before bedtime. That’s how fast bacteria multiply and do their deadly work.
Prove by science.
To determine how effect fresh air was an antibiotics,the researches anchored E.coil microorganisms to threads of spider silk and exposed them to the open air .The experiment was performed at night, since it was known that sunlight kills these bacteria.what was the result?? Some two hours later nearly all the bacterial were dead.Yet,when the bacteria were kept at in a closed box at same temperature most of them were still alive ..This experiment evidently proves that open air kills germs.Although the open air factor has not being full understood but it is clear from research that it acts as a natural antibiotic..so what are you waiting for? Try ventilating your room right now or take a work outside because it could likely do a good.
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