Health Care

The healthcare system continues to battle treatment-resistant strains of bacteria and viruses, how to effectively treat them, and how to prevent them. EcaFlo^® Anolyte eliminates this problem by not only killing the bacteria present, but by disrupting the mitochondrial DNA eliminating any possibility of resistance mutation. The same cannot be said for other chemical biocides and even many antibiotics.

Hypochlorous Acid in the Body

A white blood cell attacking bacteria with hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in EcaFlo^® Anolyte.
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Chemistry similar to the human cell is performed by the electro-chemical activation process in EcaFlo^® equipment. A metastable mixture of compounds formed during cellular phagocytosis produces hypochlorous acid as a very effective means for microbial destruction.

As a strong oxidizing solution, hypochlorous acid produces irreversible damage of essential functions of the microorganism's biopolymers at the level of electron transmission. This process effectively destroys all large systematic groups of microorganisms (bacteria, microbacteria, viruses, fungi, spores) without damaging human tissues and other multi-cellular system organisms.

Surface Disinfection

Controlling bacteria on hard surfaces, walls, floors, utensils, equipment, and containers can be accomplished by using catholyte to remove protein load, followed by anolyte to sanitize the surface. EcaFlo^®Anolyte has a major advantage over bleach because of it's neutral 7 pH and will not irritate eyes, wounds and skin, whereas bleach has a 12 pH, irritates skin and is not safe for eyes or wounds.

Potential Applications

While EcaFlo^® Anolyte is not yet FDA approved in the United States for topical and internal human use, ECA water is widely used for these purposes overseas. Russia in particular has conducted extensive research on anolyte solutions and found it to be nontoxic to biological tissue. Table 1 and Table 2 demonstrate the efficacy of EcaFlo^® Anolyte against bacterial, viral and fungal microorganisms commonly found in hospitals and healthcare settings.

Case Studies

AIDS Prevention in Dentistry

EcaFlo^® Anolyte's ability to reduce bio-film within water piping systems is particularly important in the dental industry. In the USA a case study was carried out on eleven people who had died from AIDS. The source of the AIDS contamination of each of these people in the case study was, at the time, unexplainable. A thorough investigation traced the source of contamination back to a particular dentist who had also subsequently died of AIDS. The bacterial bio-film contamination in the dentists irrigation lines was identified as the most likely source of this contamination.

Independent studies on the bio-film in these dental unit water lines have identified the existence of almost every type of harmful bacteria and virus feared by man such as TB, HIV, etc. Pumping EcaFlo^® Anolyte through dental irrigation lines would nearly, if not completely, alleviate this problem.