Any product which claims to be "The answer to AIDS, hepatitis A,B and C, malaria, herpes, TB, most cancers" is 1) over-stating the truth and 2) should be suspect for touting "Silver Bullet Cure" status.

My boyfriend is in Stem Cell research at Fred Hutch / UW and he went on a "paper" database attempting to find
some conclusive studies online and was unable to do so. He thinks to wait for studies to publish.

That said, if you want to believe all the seeming hype online (and most descriptions are typed verbatim at each site)
I suppose the worst that can happen is you'll get violently ill at which point drinking water and vomiting is supposed
to "help" (according to some site that hocks the stuff). Or die? dunno. Who is to say how each person will react
to the stuff?

Frankly, if I had to worry about taking more than a 1/2 tsp of something lest I get violently ill.....well....I wouldn't consider
ingesting it - and so, I'd avoid this stuff. But, that is my personal opinion.

I wonder now if all those years of drinking swimming pool water during the summer were actually good for me!
ha ha sorry, I couldn't resist! ; )

I found this on a site called "Naked Scientists" (podcast transcript)
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OK, lets have a look at that web page: bioredox.mysite.com/CLOXhtml...+refs.htm

The first thing it says is "Nothing in this article is intended as medical advice.
No claims, promises nor guarantees are made" Interesting.

Then "This procedure rapidly eliminates malaria and other infectious agents in only one dose."
That's a claim, so one of the first things it says is a lie. So far, I'm not impressed.

Then it says "Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is highly reactive with thiols, polyamines, purines, certain amino acids and iron, all of which are necessary for the growth and survival of pathogenic microbes."

This is true enough. Of course, since all of those things are needed to grow microbes and there are microbes in the gut ,we have a problem. Any ClO2 in the gut would instantly react with one or more of those compounds- it would never get any further ( it would be destroyed in the mouth if it were there long enough).Incidentally it also reacts with hydrochloric acid which is also present in the stomach.

Malaria is a relapsing disease- it comes and goes. If you have malaria and take snake oil it will sometimes look as if it has worked. Together with mankind's ability to believe in what they want to happen, you can see how the section on "discovery" makes sense.

Then there are about 40 references that tell you that malaria is bad and what ClO2 is. Nice comprehensive background but of no real importance. Looks impressive, but doesn't actually tell you much, I mean what does "The Three-Electron Bond in Chlorine Dioxide. "
have to do with malaria?.

Then there's a section headed "OXIDANTS AS PHYSIOLOGIC AGENTS"
It includes their rather telling observation that "Some work has been done using dilute solutions of sodium chlorite internally to treat fungal infections, chronic fatigue, and cancer; however, little has been published in that regard". Well, positive results tend to get published so what does that say to you?

Then there is another batch of only vaguely related references- things like "The Use Of Ozone In Medicine, " and "Decreased level of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and alteration of structural integrity in erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum in vitro."
I'd love to see why someone thinks the first of those might be relevant to the use of chlorite- it's an entirely different chemical.
At least the second is about the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum ) but it's a report of someone having measured the
effect (in a test tube ( in vitro)) on the levels some rather obscure chemical in red blood cells. That's worthy enough in its way, but it has nothing to do with using chlorite to treat malaria.

There are a few references like this one "Interferon-gamma activates the oxidative killing of Candida albicans by human
granulocytes. This appears like it may might be relevant but oxidative killing of foreign cells by the body is one of its major defense mechanisms. It uses peroxy compounds- not ClO2.


Then there's a section headed "OXIDES OF CHLORINE AS DISINFECTANTS"
And a whole list of references saying that chlorine and its oxides are useful disinfectants. There are two things to note here. Firstly none of these refers to malaria or plasmodium- which is a bit of a shame if you are trying to say this stuff kills them. Secondly it's not news to anyone that strong oxidants kill bacteria etc. When Domestos advertised itself as "Kills all known germs. Dead." they were perfectly
correct. (They didn't say that the same claim could be made by any bleach based product- but who can blame them).

Unfortunately you can't drink bleach and expect it to kill harmful bacteria. It's too reactive- all you will do is damage your stomach because the cells of the stomach are just as susceptible to bleach poisoning as the bacteria are. The same is true of ClO2.

Then there's a section called "MALARIA IS OXIDANT SENSITIVE"
Which is true- so what? too high an oxygen concentration kills people.
Then there's lots of references, but none of them involves ClO2. There's a reason for that. The malaria parasite lives (at least some of the time) inside blood cells. If you add bleach or ClO2 you destroy the cells- so the malaria parasite is now "homeless".Its not a sensible test.

Trawling on there's a section about "TARGETING THIOLS"
Unfortunately,
1
that's what arsenic does- so it's not really a good start and
2
ClO2 doesn't really do it- it's a strong oxidant and atacks pretty much the first thing it meets.

Again there's a whole lot of references that don't say much.


Then we have "HEME IS AN OXIDANT SENSITIZER"
Now that looks promising. The malaria parasite hangs out in red blood cells and there's a lot of heme in them. If the heme makes the oxidants more effective then it might like the bugs. TWO problems- if it makes the stuff more toxic in blood cells then most of what it kills will be blood cells. Not really what you want and also, remember way back at the begining I said that the stuff would be destroyed in the mouth and stomach. Well, just how much is going to get as far as the blood? How about none? Then there's the usual run of references to make it look scientific.


We then come to "OVERCOMING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE WITH OXIDATION"
Well, if this stuff kills malaria on its own we don't need to use the antibiotics. It seems they just admitted their claim was false.
Then they list a few pages more references to make it look good.


Then we come to the real killer (literally)
I will quote this in full
"SOME INCOMPATIBILITIES
Acidified sodium chlorite could provide a powerful new opportunity to improve or to restore sensitivity to quinolines by virtue of its oxidative power. However, quinolines contain secondary or tertiary amino groups which react with chlorine dioxide in such a way that both could destroy each other. Some possible strategies to resolve this incompatibility are suggested below.
Acidified sodium chlorite could be used as explained above only as a solo therapy.
Quinoline administration could be withheld until after the acidified sodium chorite has completed its action.
Patients already preloaded with a quinoline could stop this, wait a suitable period of time for this to wash out, then administer the acidified sodium chlorite.
The quinoline could remain in use and while the less active sodium chlorite is administered without acid. This should retain plenty of oxidant effectiveness without destroying any quinoline or wasting too much oxidant.
Switch from a quinoline to an endoperoxide (such as artemisinin) or to a quinone (such as atovaquone) before using acidified sodium chlorite, as these may be less sensitive toward destruction by chlorine dioxide.
Similar problems apply to methylene blue and many other drugs if they have an unoxidized sulfur atom, a phenol group, a secondary amine or a tertiary amine. Such are also very reactive with the chlorine dioxide component. [58a] "


Ok what that says is that the ClO2 reacts with some of the drugs used in (legitimate) treatment of malaria.
What they sugest doing about that is reckless if not criminal.
"Acidified sodium chlorite could be used as explained above only as a solo therapy.
Quinoline administration could be withheld until after the acidified sodium chorite has completed its action. "

They suggest using only this rubbish on its own and, if needs be, withdrawing treatment with an effective drug.

Yes, that's really what it means they are saying that you should stop taking drugs that are known to work to treat malaria and take their impossible remedy instead.

Does anyone care what the particular problems with the rest of their page are?