Hyponatremia

Hello, my husband began the MMS protocol in mid-May as a treatment for stage 4 cancer, while also doing a modified form of the Gerson diet--no salt, no meat, juices, cooked potatoe and leek soup for high potassium--and also doing hyperthermia treatments (sweating) with mistletoe twice a week. I wanted to let this community know that on the 7th hyperthermia treatment, he had a seizure that lasted 50 seconds. We chalked that up to the hyperthermia and did not go to the emergency room despite urging from the doctor to do so. Obviously that put an end to hyperthermia. About a month later, he began to have localized seizures that looked like small strokes in one arm, then in the face, then going down the leg. Upon a trip to the emergency room, it was found that he was in a state of hyponatremia: his blood sodium level was only 121, while 125 is considered a critical level and the norm is 135 to 145. During this time he had been doing protocol 1000 + with about 1 drop--due to nausea he couldn't really do more than 1 drop.

He has stopped the MMS protocol during recovery, we've added salt back to the diet, and the condition is clearing up. I have not read the more technical posts about how MMS acts in the body and gets secreted out, which I will do, but I am curious about the role that MMS could have played alongside low sodium intake (and 6 days of  increased sweating spread over three weeks) in creating that condition. (And by the way, since there is a small "spot" in the brain, the doctors want him to take keppra, which he is not doing. He's taking magnesium, melatonin at night, camomile tea, and avoiding stress to calm down the brain. So far so good.)

Best wishes and thank you to Jim Humble for his good work.

Hi Bill, Thank you for your reply. When doing the protocol I described, I did ask the doctor about the diet plus treatment plus MMS and he thought it should be no problem. Obviously that was not the case. I think he had worked with other people doing the Gerson diet and they did not experience hyponatremia. However, we have since spoken with another doctor very familiar with Gerson who said this was the fifth time he had heard of people having this problem while on the Gerson diet. To be fair, we did not do the full Gerson protocol, but a no salt diet CAN lead to hyponatremia.

We have city water so unfortunately the MMS baths don't seem like a healthy idea. Thank you for your encouragement.

Best wishes.