How to Use Electricity to Kill Mycoplasma

Mycoplasma are over 110 species of pathogenic bacteria that occur in animals, insects and plants; they infect blood and mucous membranes in goats and sheep, and cause urinary tract infections and pneumonia in humans. Mycoplasma are difficult to kill because they lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen on a wide variety of wet and dry surfaces. Electricity can be used to effectively eliminate mycoplasma in food, drinking water, homes and perhaps even people.

Things You'll Need

• Electrolyzed water machine
• Battery
• Electrodes
• Table salt
• Tap water
• Antibiotic

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Instructions

• 1

  Create electrolyzed water, a dilute solution of table salt and tap water. Industrial water electrolyzers are available for between $2,000 and $10,000, while hand-held water electrolyzers can be purchased for under $200 for small volumes. Or create your own water electrolyzer by placing two electrodes in water and connecting one to the positive end of a power source, such as a 9-volt battery, and the other to the negative end.

• 2

  Combine direct electrical current with antibiotics to sterilize coated surfaces. Cleaning solution has difficulty reaching bacteria embedded in layered coatings like those found on medical instruments or industrial food processors, whereas direct electrical current combined with an antibiotic solution penetrates multiple layers.

• 3

  Use direct electrical current without antibiotics. Direct current alone has a bacterial kill rate ten times that of an antibiotic alone. Mycoplasma kill rates vary based on the direction of current and duration of treatment.

• 4

  Pass a low voltage pulsing electrical current through fluid. The controversial Beck Protocol, which claims to kill blood-borne and gastrointestinal mycoplasma in humans, applies pulsing current.