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Abigail Calder

Is chlorhexidine the same as chlorine dioxide?

Christie Aguilar  Follow

There is plenty of evidence that it’s dangerous, as a compound in general.

But in some sense that’s asking the wrong question. After all, there’s even more evidence that water is dangerous. What we want to know is whether chlorine dioxide at the concentrations and dosage regimens used by these alternative medicine practitioners is dangerous. Based on the data on hospital admissions and deaths in the article, it certainly doesn’t sound like they’re sticking to safe levels of the compound.

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Craig 75  Follow

Oh, it’s quite likely, yes.

See, here’s the thing: it’s easy to kill cancer. Lots of things that you have under your kitchen sink kill cancer. Killing cancer isn’t hard.

Killing cancer without killing normal cells—now that’s very, very hard.

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial sanitizer and bleach. It’s also a deadly poison. All kinds of superstitious nonsense about how it kills cancer, started by a Scientologist, have been floating around for a while:

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And technically, the claims are probably true. It does indeed kill cancer. And the patient.

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Daryl Storey  Follow

They are totally different compounds. Chlorhexidine has the formula C22H30Cl2N10. Chlorine dioxide is ClO2.

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Dean Moncaster  Follow
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Badi DukviL  Follow

The formula for chlorine dioxide is ClO2. Chlorin dioxide is a gas . It is commonly used to disinfect drinking water .

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Affiliate Successs  Follow

Chlorhexidine is not intended for daily use beyond 2 weeks. If you use it longer than that it can lead to the development of resistant bacteria plus it can lead to opportunistic fungal infections.

Hydrogen peroxide is no longer viewed as useful for healing wounds as it destroys tissue and inhibits healing.

Your DIY concoction is nothing but bad and nothing good.

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Daniel Silvers  Follow

It's the chlorine in the chlorine.

Chlorine is an element, it doesn't have any constituent components that give it additional properties. Anything else with Chlorine like properties have those properties because of the Chlorine.

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