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This post contains valuable information for everyone, so guys should read it, too. This particular case, though, affects women. But I will say more about other similarly fraudulent products which affect everyone.
Earlier today, my daughter asked me to pick up some yeast infection medicine for her. After dinner, I headed to our local Walgreens. I know all about Monistat and that is what I intended to buy her. Unfortunately, all they had was Monistat 7.
Then my eye was caught by this product:
A two day treatment which boldly proclaims that it kills more than 99 percent of yeast. Note there is an asterisk next to that claim, and in teeny tiny print it says "*Laboratory testing (non-human/non-animal)".
I'll get to what that means in a moment.
When I saw it was a two day treatment, I almost bought it. It costs way more than Monistat 7 but my baby girl is suffering and 2 days is better than 7.
I was on my way to the register when the text in the lower left corner came to my attention.
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me.
Homeopathy is bunk, ladies and gentlemen. Total, complete bunk. It is junk. You may as well shove olive oil up your vagina, because that is basically all this product is.
Here is the ingredients label:
You see that 3X HPUS bullshit? That means they take one part of the ingredient and mix it with 9 parts of an inert substance. Then they take the result of that mixture and take one part of it and mix it with 9 parts of an inert substance. Then they take THAT resulting mixture and mix one part of it with 9 parts of an inert substance.
Homeopaths are insane. They actually believe the less of something you use, the more powerful the "medicine".
3X isn't even the dumbest they get. There are 30C mixtures which mean one part to 99 parts, take that result and mix one part of it with 99 parts of an inert substance, and do that 30 fricking times! You are lucky if you fill a swimming pool with the "medicine" that there would be a single molecule of the original ingredient.
And this is what Walgreens is selling to women with vaginal yeast infections. Un-fricking-believable.
This shit is sold on Amazon and at CVS, too.
There are zillions of homoepathic snake oil products out there, folks. I've seen homeopathic teething medicine for babies. That's about as sick as it gets.
There are even homeopathic "medicines" for pets. PETS, for chrissakes.
Here is a Better Business Bureau notice teling FemiClear to cease and desist in its claims it is more effective than Monistat: NAD Recommends Discontinuation of OrganiCare Challenged Claims
Now about that "non-human/non-animal" laboratory testing, this is from the BBB link:
The evidence offered by the advertiser in support of its claims consisted of an in-vitro time-to-kill test measuring the reduction of the yeast strain Candida albicans after four hours of exposure to samples of 5 yeast infection treatment products: FemiClear, Monistat 1, Monistat 3, Monistat 7, and Vagistat 3. OrganiCare also submitted declarations from its representatives and consultants familiar with the testing performed. After evaluating the evidence, NAD determined it failed to rise to the level of competent and reliable scientific evidence sufficient to provide a reasonable basis for OrganiCare’s establishment and comparative superior yeast-killing claims and the reasonably conveyed messages stemming therefrom.
Be careful out there, folks. Look at the label of the over the counter medicines you buy. Look at the ingredients label. If you see some weird shit like "3X" or "12C', you are being hoaxed.
Homeopathic medications are not FDA approved.
Earlier today, my daughter asked me to pick up some yeast infection medicine for her. After dinner, I headed to our local Walgreens. I know all about Monistat and that is what I intended to buy her. Unfortunately, all they had was Monistat 7.
Then my eye was caught by this product:
A two day treatment which boldly proclaims that it kills more than 99 percent of yeast. Note there is an asterisk next to that claim, and in teeny tiny print it says "*Laboratory testing (non-human/non-animal)".
I'll get to what that means in a moment.
When I saw it was a two day treatment, I almost bought it. It costs way more than Monistat 7 but my baby girl is suffering and 2 days is better than 7.
I was on my way to the register when the text in the lower left corner came to my attention.
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me.
Homeopathy is bunk, ladies and gentlemen. Total, complete bunk. It is junk. You may as well shove olive oil up your vagina, because that is basically all this product is.
Here is the ingredients label:
You see that 3X HPUS bullshit? That means they take one part of the ingredient and mix it with 9 parts of an inert substance. Then they take the result of that mixture and take one part of it and mix it with 9 parts of an inert substance. Then they take THAT resulting mixture and mix one part of it with 9 parts of an inert substance.
Homeopaths are insane. They actually believe the less of something you use, the more powerful the "medicine".
3X isn't even the dumbest they get. There are 30C mixtures which mean one part to 99 parts, take that result and mix one part of it with 99 parts of an inert substance, and do that 30 fricking times! You are lucky if you fill a swimming pool with the "medicine" that there would be a single molecule of the original ingredient.
And this is what Walgreens is selling to women with vaginal yeast infections. Un-fricking-believable.
This shit is sold on Amazon and at CVS, too.
There are zillions of homoepathic snake oil products out there, folks. I've seen homeopathic teething medicine for babies. That's about as sick as it gets.
There are even homeopathic "medicines" for pets. PETS, for chrissakes.
Here is a Better Business Bureau notice teling FemiClear to cease and desist in its claims it is more effective than Monistat: NAD Recommends Discontinuation of OrganiCare Challenged Claims
Now about that "non-human/non-animal" laboratory testing, this is from the BBB link:
The evidence offered by the advertiser in support of its claims consisted of an in-vitro time-to-kill test measuring the reduction of the yeast strain Candida albicans after four hours of exposure to samples of 5 yeast infection treatment products: FemiClear, Monistat 1, Monistat 3, Monistat 7, and Vagistat 3. OrganiCare also submitted declarations from its representatives and consultants familiar with the testing performed. After evaluating the evidence, NAD determined it failed to rise to the level of competent and reliable scientific evidence sufficient to provide a reasonable basis for OrganiCare’s establishment and comparative superior yeast-killing claims and the reasonably conveyed messages stemming therefrom.
Be careful out there, folks. Look at the label of the over the counter medicines you buy. Look at the ingredients label. If you see some weird shit like "3X" or "12C', you are being hoaxed.
Homeopathic medications are not FDA approved.
