Natural and Chemical Remedies for Mites in Intimate Places

 

This month marks seven years of taking phone calls from customers facing drastic mite issues connected to mold, gardens, pets, bird nests and rodents. The questions people ask me aren’t always pretty, and I didn’t always know how to handle random late night calls from motels, campsites, farms and private residences. The cold truth is that many mite customers identify themselves as being chronically infested. Occasionally, these issues spread to the genitals. As I discuss natural methods that have helped for some, understand that I’m not a doctor, and you should always consult a physician when treating intimate places.

 

No Undiluted Essential Oils: Be extremely careful when using tea tree, eycalyptus, peppermint, cedar, lavendar and lemongrass inside your anus or vagina. Most of the strongest essential oils associated with parasite treatment can burn the anus or vagina, even if you’ve successfully used such oils on other areas of the body. A contact rash can be wildly painful. Worse yet, such a rash can temporarily destroy your immunities, slow the healing process and render your body incapable of fighting the original issue. I’ve seen natural care blogs that advise soaking tampons in tea tree oil and inserting them into the vagina. I’ve heard from people who’ve tried this, and I’ll spare you the gory details of their extreme burning and discomfort. Talk to your naturopath about adding a few drops of tea tree oil to a tablespoon of warm coconut oil. Discuss your special sensitivities to determine how much you can increase the drops over time.

 

Make Your Own Coconut Oil Inserts: Deposit three heaping tablespoons of coconut oil to a plate covered with Saran Wrap. Use your fingers to form each blob into a bullet about two inches in length. Freeze until solid and insert the bullets into the anus or vagina. Place a thick wad of paper towels between your legs to catch the drips that will occur when the coconut oil begins to melt. Ideally, this procedure should be done before bed so that the coconut oil stays inside you for a longer period. Modern science has confirmed that coconut oil kills all sorts of microbes from viruses to protozoa. And yes, it kills yeast. Yeast control is particularly important, as large numbers of people within the chronic mite community believe Candida overgrowth can simultaneously feed mites and suppress the immune system.

 

Try a Saline Suppository: I once spoke to a woman who was living in motels because her home was so badly infested with mites. She had visited doctors and tried everything imaginable to solve problems which spread to her vagina. A saline suppository was the ultimate tool that helped her sleep and led her on the road to recovery. Before going on a chronic regimen of this type, consult your doctor. Saline enemas have fallen out of favor in recent years. The perfect treatment for one person is not necessarily to best treatment for another.

 

Maintain Tight Control Over Your Diet: Think of yeast as mite food. Think of sugar as the primary substance that yeast needs to multiply. For the duration of your suffering, eliminate bread, pasta and sugar from  your diet. Yes, that includes limiting fruit to one piece per day. Avoid coffee and black tea, as they both contain mold (mite food). Eat plenty of vegetables and quality organic meats such as chicken, fish or lean roast beef. Anti Candida diet books are quite popular these days. Find recipes to excite you and keep you motivated! The best way to rid your body of yeast is to avoid ingesting grains and sugars in the first place. Millions of people have already embraced low carb diets to control a wide variety of health issues. Low carb dieting is also a wildly popular strategy to control digestive disorders and skin disorders such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis and eczema.

 

Take Your Natural Antibiotics, Probiotics and Anti-Fungal Supplements:

 

1. Take a high quality probiotic each day.

2. Sip Ginger Tea.

3. Get two or three tablespoons of coconut oil into your diet each day. You can use it to cook meat and roast vegetables. You can even dissolve it into your tea.

4. Take Turmeric supplements. You may also dissolve a teaspoon of turmeric spice into a tea, but the taste is so horrible that you’ll long for the capsules.

5. Eat Sauerkraut! It’s a stunningly effective probiotic. Choose sauerkraut from the refrigerator section of your grocery store. Bottled or canned sauerkraut is not properly fermented with salt.

6. Eat fresh, raw garlic. Cooking garlic destroys the compounds that fight yeast and bacteria.

 

*Beware that natural antibiotics are powerful. If you’re on blood thinners, consult a doctor before taking large amounts of garlic or turmeric, as they can thin the blood. A good naturopath can prescribe appropriate amounts and develop a plan that won’t conflict with your medical doctor’s prescriptions.

 

Visit a Naturopath: There’s no law against having two doctors. A comprehensive consultation with a naturopathic physician will help you design a daily regimen that doesn’t conflict with pharmaceutical prescriptions or worsen existing medical conditions. The modest fee is worth its weight in gold. Patients with chronic parasite issues tend to feel brushed aside by the mainstream medical community, partly because their doctors don’t have the time for lengthy consultations in a busy clinical environment. Holistic practitioners tend to spend much more time consulting with clients and designing comprehensive nutritional plans to fit individual needs.

 

Don’t Avoid Your Regular Doctor: Appointments to monitor your condition will be necessary. Your doctor may suggest putting you on Ivermectin or permethrin cream. If you’ve tried these avenues and failed, you must keep seeing your doctor to monitor skin changes. Hard-to-see areas of the body can be particularly problematic because patients can’t track the appearance of new bumps or lesions.

 

Don’t Call Me at 3 a.m.:  I’m not a doctor. I’m in the pest control industry. I specialize in ridding homes of chronic mite issues. When I hear of natural strategies that have proven successful for others, I like to share the information to support the mite community.