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31/12/2006: "TSAI TIEN CHIN .......piano in heaven?"

One of the five Taiwanese girls who invited me to sleep on the lounge room floor of their apartment in Taipei. Her Chinese name means piano in heaven.

I chose to make use of my small tent (indoors) as well. It always seem strange to people when I do this in Australia and no less in Taipei.

The logic being it's a mosquito net. I've met paralyzed people back in Australia, put in wheelchairs for life, by simple mozzie bites.

Footnote: An email from Robert Sands (today) details the potential of high pressure oxygen therapy on malaria via hyperbaric chambers. I'd asked:

Q. I've got a hunch intestinal parasites are a big problem not understood by many GP doctors in the profession. I wonder how pressure (as per a recompression chamber treatment) effects parasites?


A. "My explanation of high density oxygen is simplistic. There is a cascade of physiological responses rather than a chain of them. For example, I mentioned free radicals. More accurately known as Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS.) When you have parasites, your body uses one particular large white blood cell (a leukocyte) which is called a neutrophile. It just circulates in the blood until it is recruited out of the plasma into the body space where a parasite has invaded. It then conjures up a poison from ROS (usually a sort of hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, from the available O2) and the cell ingests the invader and then poisons it in a process known as phagocytosis. Thus, high density oxygen (treatment) would work well with malaria. Also with worms and other things".