CRN, July 2001
The biggest problem I have had since moving here (Arizona) is those darn sugar ants. I am extrememly allergic to
their bites. Last season when I got bit, first my ankle would swell up double, then the bite would fester for a week, then
skin would disintegrate the size of a nickel around each bite, then scab over a few times before healing in 6-8 weeks,
with lots of misery through the process - hydrogen peroxide and aloe vera 2-3 times per day. It was horrible. This time
I was bit last Thursday and the routine was beginning until I tried emu oil on Sunday. I put emu oil on the bites twice
per day since Sunday and they are almost healed already. Right now the bites are just red spots with no skin
dissolving or scabbing. I can't believe it. I'm sold and telling all my friends. D., AR
LIFE WITH THE BIRDS - We don't know what set them off, perhaps an owl or the coyotes again, but the birds were in a
panic. One idiot insisted on jumping against a solid wood wall. I caught him and steered him out into an open pasture,
but not before he slammed my hand up against a post. The bones below my thumb and forefinger were throbbing, and
blood was dripping from in between. Hours later, with birds calmed down, I looked at my hand in the light. My hand
was puffed up and the scrape looked ugly. I drizzled emu oil on the scrape and went to bed. In the morning, I had a
"trough" between puffed areas, where I had dribbled the oil. I gently rubbed oil on the entire hand, and the swelling
dropped down everywhere. -R
CRN, March 02
M. is tall and athletic. What started as a small red spot on his ankle turned into an open sore, one half inch by 3/4
inch in size. He went from one doctor to another, and even to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Thorough
examination found an artery from his groin to the foot, to be inadequate. This was a circulation problem. The doctor
taught M. how to wrap the foot in a better fashion, and to treat it with saline solution. In the end, the doctor basically
told M., "Learn to live with it." Ten months later, it was almost healed. But the skin was soft and fragile, like an egg
with no shell. It was now September, 2001.
Mark had been wearing support socks, which lose their tightness aftera while. Being human, and a typical guy, he
didn't get the new ones ordered. Suddenly the sore was open again. It now measured two inches long by an inch
wide. The pain was incredible. Showering was nearly impossible, as water running over the open wound was
excruciating. M. would shower, standing on one foot, with the other outside the curtain. He also told me that when he
was going out, he would start getting ready two hours early, in order to give the Lidocaine patches time to numb the
throbbing foot.
Shortly after Thanksgiving, M's mom visited our booth at a crafts fair and heard me saying, "We don't know why - but
somehow emu oil aids in healing." M. was at my door the next day. I couldn't make him any promises, but he was
willing to try anything I would suggest. We decided to hit it from both sides - emu oil gel caps internally (4-6 daily,
tapering off to 3) and pure emu oil drizzled over the sore from the outside. He also used Neosporin ointment and the
Lidocaine (painkiller) patches, before wrapping the foot and carefully pulling on two support socks. It was December
11, 2001.
Within two to three weeks, new skin began growing in the sore. M could shower again, with both feet in the shower!
By the end of January the wound was starting to close. By mid-February, it had a scab. Within the last three weeks
(now 3/28/02) the scab is gone. Currently there is NO open wound, with just a pink spot where it used to be. This
time the skin is normal, and healthy looking.
Note: as of the last time I saw M., in late 2003 - the sore had never reopened.
