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This year, the National Institute of Toxicology of Spain received three times as many requests for consultation for ingestion of this drug, compared to the whole of 2019.
The Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) is a supposedly miraculous “medicine” that has been sold on the Internet for at least ten years. It promises to cure from cancer to autism and now also the new coronavirus. The truth is that MMS is not a drug but a sodium chlorite-based substance.
Between April and June, the worst months of the pandemic so far, the National Institute of Toxicology received 26 requests for consultation due to poisoning from the use of this “drug.” In 2019, only eight cases had been recorded.
The Spanish newspaper ABC reports that the consumption of MMS has increased to such an extent that the Institute of Toxicology issued a statement alerting citizens of the “toxicity of the product, which is 28% composed of sodium chlorite, harmful to health ”.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) even released an alert in December 2019 stating that anyone consuming this product would be “drinking bleach.” The “drug” directions instruct consumers to mix it with citric acid, such as lemon juice, before taking it. When this mixture is made, it turns into “chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent,” explains the FDA.
Some websites that sell this product guarantee that vomiting and diarrhea are normal symptoms after ingestion and proof that it is working. The FDA says this is a lie referring to the package insert for MMS that encourages people to consume by saying it is “the purest you can take.”
The substance was “discovered” by Jim Humble, who even founded his own church, “Genesis II of Health and Healing.” In August this year, the church’s co-founder and current leader, Mark Grenon, and his sons were arrested. The motive was the manufacture and sale of a fake drug. The accusation, made in Florida, says the family sold thousands of bottles of MMS, having made 102,000 euros a month during the months of the pandemic.
Since the substance is sold on the Internet, it can be purchased in Portugal. However, it has already been banned in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Ireland.
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