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Over the course of the past two years my mom, Alice Kearney, has been on two courses of steroids and an intravenous chemo treatment for low blood platelets.  When on the really high doses of steroids (12-14 tablets a day) the platelets improve, going up in the 60′s.  However, steroids have lot’s of side effects, osteoparosis being one, and taking them on a long term basis is not an option.  The trouble is, as the steroids are reduced, the platelet count also drops.  The chemotherapy also had no positive impact and doctors were beginning to talk about removing the spleen.  Naturally, Alice wasn’t too keen on this!

Alice, enjoying a birthday party!

We did some research online and found that people around the globe were saying that taking Papaya or PawPaw leaf extract was improving their platelet count.  Obviously, it’s a foodstuff and as such is not going to create platelets but from the anecdotal evidence out there it did appear to have a positive effect on the overall count,  possibly by protecting the platelets from whatever was destroying them.  Anyway, the how’s and why’s did not really bother us.  Here was a natural product, with no side effects, that might help the situation.  Of course we were going to try it!  We got it HERE – click!

The rest is history!  One week after starting to take a daily dose of papaya leaf extract, mom’s platelet count went up from 11 to 47 and three months on she is up at 126.  And, she feels great overall.  She was also on Nexium, a strong prescription acid blocker (proton pump inhibitor) and has also been able to stop taking that as the papaya leaf extract also appears to have an excellent effect on the digestive system.

Honestly, I didn’t think we would find a cure for low blood platelets but we did and my mother, with spleen intact, is absolutely delighted!

Result of blood tests in Aug 2011 - Platelets at 126!

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