Whoa. The picture of the tape worm is just too graphic to post on my pretty blog…so you can indulge yourself at the Parasite Cleanse board (be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the pictures) at the  YLCleansers cleansing forum.  It was forwarded to me by Dr. LeAnne by a client who I’m guessing, is in the midst of a Parasite Cleanse, and he must be feeling so much better after evacuating that beast! I’m sure it’s going to make a world of change in terms of digestion, feeling energized, and getting rid of brain fog. I know that when I’ve had my parasite flare-ups, everything just feels down inside of me.

I’ve used Parafree for Parasite cleanses and find it to be quite effective. There are some strong oils that can make feel burpy, and the first time I used it I felt quite nauseous. The recommended dosage is 4 capsules twice daily.  If you tend to be on the lighter side, your body pH is pretty balanced,  and have done various cleanses, you might only need one or two to achieve the same effects to “touch up” with a targeted parasite cleanse. Yes, we all have parasites, we all have bacteria, the trick is to keep it in balance. When it’s in balance digestion is easy, your mind is clear, you feel happy, you feel energized, and aren’t run down.

Parafree description by Young Living:

ParaFree™ is formulated with an advanced blend of some of the strongest essential oils studied for their cleansing abilities.* This formula also includes the added benefits of sesame seed oil and olive oil. .

Calories: 25 per serving
Total Fat: 3 grams per serving

Approximately 47 servings per container

How to use: Take one capsule up to 4 times daily. For best results, take for 21 days and rest for seven days. Cycle may be repeated three times. Take on an empty stomach for maximum results.

Ingredients: Organic sesame (sesamum indicum)* seed oil, cumin (Cuminum cyminum)† seed, organic olive (Olea Europaea)* seed oil, anise (Pimpinella anisum)† seed, fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)† seed, Bay laurel (laurus nobilis)† leaf, vetiver (vetiveria zizanoides)† root, melaleuca (M. alternifolia)† leaf, nutmeg (myristica fragrans)† leaf, clove (Syzygium aromaticum) † bud, Idaho tansy (tanacetum vulgare)† leaf/stem, thyme (thymus vulgaris)† leaf, gelatin, glycerin, and deionized water.

* Organically grown in accordance with the California Organic Foods Act of 1990
Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ essential oil

Here’s the recipe:

• 1 clove of garlic (or 5 if you like – like a natural antibiotic!)
• 1 small cucumber
• 1 small onion
• 4 sprigs of parsley (or more – it’s great for kidneys and cleansing and will make you really HAPPY!)
• 2 celery stalks
• 2 carrots
• 4 tomatoes

It’s a wonderful alkalizer, vitamin booster, and feeds your kidneys, liver, intestines…heck, it feeds EVERYTHING; and it tastes so incredibly delicious. It is one of the tastiest raw juices/soup recipes I’ve ever had. EVER.

And my friend, Adrianne, apparently concurs with me…we’re swooning over it at the FORUM.

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And the FASCINATING AstroCleansology Blog

friends – you know i’m a believer in saline enemas, but i was skeptical about coffee enemas. and since i dont’ drink caffeine i couldnt’ imagine what kind of hit i would get off of a coffee enema.

lately i’ve been feeling sooooo toxic and bloaty, i’ve even had some edema which i only had during pregnancy. i knew something was up – but my usual tricks weren’t working as quickly or effectively – and i also felt like this stuff had to do w/my lymph and liver. literally, this post-swine flu experience (again, not sure if that’s what i had -but it was a strange flu)…really attacked my lymph about 3 weeks after having it. and it just brought me down.

so today i decide to an enema, and for whatever reason, i grabbed the rest of hte coffee from hubbys coffee pot, mixed it 50/50 with a saline solution and held it for about 20 minutes. i could feel my liver seeming to light up, and radiating warmth to my body. i was having so much more sensation and feeling in my feet, legs, and knees – and i could feel this warmth traveling up to my heart and to my throat.

and i held it for at least 20 minutes. one quart and it was EASY.

so i did some reading on coffee enemas – appraently they’ve been around for centuries.

i’ll give you a quick summary on how i think they work given all of the stuff i read -

apparently the lower colon, the sigmoid colon – holds the most toxins in the body as does the liver and bile. (did you know that bile contineus to recycle thru our bodies?).  when you feel sick and have the urge too poop and then feel fine afterwards, it’s bc the accumulated toxins in the sigmoid colon are starting to circulate thru your entire body.

now, the sigmoid colon and liver are tied directly when it comes to circulation. the caffeine in the coffee serves to dilate liver and gallbladder, as well as stimulate the colon. there are some specific amino acids that are hugely abundant in coffee – and this triggers an enzyme with the liver to detoxify and clean up. somehow this amino acid triggers the bile to be released, and then more enzymes and amino acids are created to BIND to the bile, and then it is dumped into the small intestine and then released out of the body instead of recirculating over and over.

that’s why you instantly feel better with a coffee enema, the toxins get bound, the caffeine and other coffee constituents help to filter the blood thru the liver – remember the circulatory system is directly tied w/the sigmoid colon to the liver – blood is recycled thru the liver ever 3 minutes, so the longer you can hold a coffee enema, the better for your blood – and cleansing your blood.

i held mine for 20 mintues and it was easy. enemas are also easier for me when they are room temperature, and my body heats them up.

i’m such a believer in coffee enemas. my new way to enemaize!

xo
regina

Friends,

I was so happy to read this article from Dr. David Stewart, about how there are 6 ways in which we can use our essential oils, or any form of aromatherapy, and use them within the law – meaning, we wouldn’t be called out for practicing medicine without a license.

I was very happy to read that there are six areas in which “it is perfectly legal for anyone to offer assistance and advice and are not “practicing medicine.” They are as follows:

1. First Aid
2. Pain Management
3. Stress Management
4. Cleansing and Detoxification
5. Building for Peak Performance
6. Improving Quality of Life

And isn’t this generally how most YL distributors or essential oil enthusiasts use their essential oils? It sure does make sharing the power of the oils that much more practical and easier.

Dr. Stewart does go on to state:

“There are precautions to be taken when engaging in these six areas. Be sure that you are not “telling people what to do,” but are merely advising them as to the possibilites from which they may choose. Be sure you are not stating a definite claim that an oil or other natural protocol “can definite cure a condition or have definite beneficial effects.” Simply say these natural means “may” have benefit, but there are no guarantees and different people react differently to the same oils and protocols. If we avoid diagnosing, prescribing, prognosticating, or making claims, we remain on the right side of the law.

You can always cite your own personal experiences, which is not practicing medicine, but only telling anecdotes. And, of course, you can always quote data from published sources, attributing what you share to the sources.”

Well said! Thank you, Dr. Stewart!

Today Mars goes into Leo, and is STAYING there for nearly 8 months! This is UNHEARD of! Mars is the planet of action, focus, and energy, and it has left the more introspective, family and home-oriented sign of Cancer, and is brilliantly lighting up in Leo for a long stay. Typically Mars only visits for 6-8 weeks, and now we get to enjoy Mars’ visit to Leo. Did I say enjoy? Well, that is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

Leo rules your hearts desire! It’s about passion, creativity, expression of self and having fun. Whatever it is that brings you joy, happiness, and upliftment…Mars in Leo is going to see that you have even EXTRA leverage to enjoy these endeavors, and to really stoke yourself in the power of your joy for the next 8 months.

Physically, this is the time you will get the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to supporting your blood. Your blood is going to be lively and do very well with any type of cleansing or blood-based supports or diseases you are trying to move forward with and heal.  I’m thinking it will be best to support your blood and feed it through December,and then do a blood “cleanse” or master cleanse come mid to late winter. Rehemogen comes to mind. This will do wonders not only for blood, but for you circulatory system, your reproductive organs, and liver. And liver will be thanking you tremendously come spring when it energizes – can we say superpowers for liver come next spring?

Additionally, according to the Chinese, blood is the messenger of the mind, for blood delivers your thought and feeling messages to every corner of your physical being. This is a great time to thin your blood out if it needs it, use more cayenne pepper, and Inner Defense. Your blood will love you for supporting it with glyconutrients such as Ningxia Red and Sulfurzyme.

Mars will retrograde for a bit in the winter, but hey, ’tis the season of slowing down and hibernating a bit…come Spring when it goes direct…watch out. Mars’ power will really combust THEN!

Until then,you’ll feel this power most strongly the rest of the month, the less strong in November, and end of December it’ll slow for awhile…and the bounce back come spring will just dazzle and delight you to no end!

Famous Leos:

President Obama, Ben Affleck, Halle Berry, Paris Hilton, President Clinton, Whitney Houston, The Queen Mother, Jeremy Piven, Madonna, JK Rowling, Andy Warhol, Patrick Swayze, Hillary Swank, Misty Mae-Traynor

What is “Feeling it Real”? Well, it’s based upon the book, “Feel It Real” by actress and author, Denise Coates. Essentially, Denise brings the practice of Law of Attraction and creating the life you love and desire by getting you out of your thinking head and into your feeling body, feeling creativity, and opening yourself to the rhythms and energies of your creative desires. You really can only attract that which you want by becoming a vibrational match to that which you want, they have to be of like frequencies.

As a certified Feel It Real Coach, School Psychologist, and Master Cleansologist, I can tell you that hands down, feeling it real is much of the scaffolding bridging you from your actual world, right here, right now…to your ideal world with magnificent health, vibrant organ systems, and strong physical structures of your body.

When we are where we are, and if we’re not liking where we are, our bodies take a beating from that disappointment, irritability, and repressed anger. It’s as if we’re slowly sucking the life force of our bodies, just like the cooling fall and winter weather cause flowers and leaves to whither, fade, and drop. It’s hard to be a blooming, radiant flower dancing in the sunglight under the wrong, not-life-giving conditions. Even with strong intention and will power, those energies zap themselves when there is not alignment with the season of blooming, which is your season of LIVING.

So do you want to live? I mean, really, really, really LIVE? Or do you just want to make-do with what you have right now? You get to choose either one.

When you start feeling it real, on a very visceral level, you can feel the physiological changes emerging from the inside-0ut. When your inner self really starts to feel it, really starts to believe it, and then starts to dominate that overly thinking monkey mind – that’s where health takes root and begins to blossom. That’s when you overcome your cleansing plateaus and hurdles, that’s when suddenly your body is becoming supercharged and remembers the rhythm of a pulsating joyful, exhilirating life.

And that pulsating life starts to please you, feed you, from the inside out.  Suddenly, you feel like life is living you effotlessly, and everything is a joy. Being in that stance of total freedom, reactionary joy does WONDERS for your body – electrically it is balanced, the body has it’s organs harmonized and they aren’t robbing each other of energy. Stress hormones are gone, cortisol lessens, organs heal themselves, the heart feels grounded in joy, love, and acceptance, self-compassion and self-delight are the way for the day, oxygen enlivens the brain, peristalic action is ideal, eating is pleasurable, digestion is pleasurable, the body has more than enough to heal itself and rejuvenate itself…and you and your body get on with the business of living.

Living is supposed to be fun.

Feeling it real is fun.

Creating is supposed to be surprising and delightful.

Feeling it real takes you off the hook and lets the universe surprise and delight you in the most rich, and most fulfilling ways.

When you feel good, you look good, you think good, you create good, you allow good…good just happens.

And, you ARE good.

Happy Fall, everyone! Yes, it is fall even though it seems like we skipped right into Winter for the Northern 48!

It’s been very busy behind the scenes at the forum, the entire forum was nearly lost during an upgrade…and thankfully it was recovered completely.  Coincidentally, Terdrpress, I mean WordPress, blocked my account and blogs indefinitely – so I decided to safely house them right through the forum, and I’ll take that as an affirmation I needed to some cleansing on my part with my blogs!

My new “I Love YLCleansers” blog can be found at http://ylcleansers.com/Blog/ and my “Feel It Real” blog can be found at http://ylcleansers.com/AlohaRegina/.  I’ve also transplanted The Daily Cleanser, Did You Know?, and Astro-Cleansology to my cleansing blog –it’s much prettier and we can still comment and share there as well.

So, what’s new? LOTS.

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GENERAL DISCUSSION BOARD

Vaccine Information:
Giving babies Tylenol may blunt vaccines’ effects
The Dr. Oz Bait for Vaccines: Why Did He Do It?
Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved Us
Top researcher who worked on cervical cancer vaccine warns about its dangers
Teen girl suffers permanent brain damage after cervical cancer vaccine
Do NOT Let Your Child Get Flu Vaccine — 9 Reasons Why

Swine-Flu Information
Swine Flu Shots Revive a Debate About Vaccines
I’m seriously wondering if I have swine flu….
Sixty million years of evolution says vitamin D may save your life from swine f
Naperville North student’s death linked to H1N1 virus
Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU
US, other nations stop counting pandemic flu cases
CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise
Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated
Flu symptoms self-assessment: Do you have seasonal or swine flu (H1N1)? By Mayo
Vitamin D For Swine Flu Prevention
The Questionable Efficacy Of Flu Vaccines… And The Pandemic That Wasn’t
Swine flu vaccine victims encouraged to post reports of side effects on SwineFluVaccineReport.com

Dr. LeAnne Resources, Q&A
Oct 7 ANSWERS!!!
Add your questions to the November 4 Show!

Young Living & Essential Oil Info ***NEW***
Dr. David Stewart – 6 Ways To Keep Your Practic eof Aromatherapy Within The Law
Dr. David Stewart – Sept-Oct 2009 Broadcast – When Modern Medicine Is A Good Thi
Reactions to Essential Oils
Great post re: weight gain-cleanse-hormones from Ecuador
YL CD #71 “Ancient Wisdom, Modern Medicine”(Frankincense, Cancer studies)
YL CD #65 New Products for Health and Hormone Balance

OILS, SUPPLEMENTS & OTHER PRODUCTS

YL Essential Oils
SclarEssence Blend

YL Nutritional Supplements
Detoxzyme
Lipozyme
Thyromin updated
Progessence
Ultra Young+
CortiStop
PD 80/20
FemiGen
Estro T
Endogize
Alkalime
Ningxia Red
ReJuvaSlim Tea
Thermaburn
Mineral Essence
JuvaPower
ICP
PowerMeal
Digest&cleanse
Balance Complete

THE CLEANSES

Yeast & Candida
interesting – flakey fingertips
How Olive Leaf Fights Candida Albicans Naturally

Kidney Cleanse
Kidneys take on the burden of cleansing

Liver Cleanse
Rejuvanate Recipes

Lymphatic Network Cleanse
The Lymph System and your health

5-Day Nutritive Cleanse
Thoughts on the 5 day nutritive

OTHER CLEANSING MODALITIES

Chelating Metals
october 7 radio show – discussed chelating metals

Juicing & Food Related Cleansing Strategies
Food Combining: the only veggies that can combine with fruits are…
Juicing: Eating – Cleansing – Recipes – Supps – Plan used from Ecuador
Enemas, Colonics: back to daily enemas
Enzymes & Fiber: Enzyme Deficiencies – from Ecuador

Smudging ***NEW!!!***
Smudging by Jane Alexander
you can also smudge yourself
i love smudging!
What is Smudging?

Water & Body pH
Why body pH and acid make it hard to lose weight

Whenever a planet goes direct, the days leading ahead of it turning can get wobbly – things might feel a bit off.

I’ve noticed that for myself, I’ve had a bit of a cold/sinus thing crescendoing this week, and I can feel the grip of it waning as we near the 11th.

I’ve also noticed I’ve needed more Ultra+ spray as of late, which would be a great nutrient to support the pituitary as we wobble and turn direct.

Other pituitary friendly YL products include – cedarwood, frankincense, lavender, and i’ll bet dollars to donuts copaiba is an excellent one! Of course, there are pituitary glandulars in Thyromin, and i use my raw glandulars as well. pituitary energizes with thyroid and adrenals from 9p-11p; so perhaps some adrenal support is in order, too.

Happy Cleansing!

I Love YL!

I offer consultations to assist women in figuring these problems out at www.talktodrleanne.com comment – totally worth it – to me, everyone’s hormonal problems tend to have a different story and unique approach to healing it.

12. My daughters, ages 16 and 12 energy levels really go down when they are close to their periods. I try to supplement with Echinacea and Thieves as they are prone to sore throats and colds at this time of the month. Would you have any ideas?

Well, it sounds like their adrenal glands need to be supported. If you look about the adrenal in the book Ultimate Balance you will notice that its opposite organ is Spleen so the energy drop and the frequent colds are related. I would support the adrenal as already mentioned and run the adrenal and spleen balances during their times of day. I think I would do it for at least a month so the adrenal has the support it needs before their periods start. Comment: Adrenals are opposite organs to Spleen – which has everything to do with supporting the immune system. Check out Ultimate Balance.

13. I just listened to your pregnancy and oils talk.  At the end, for increased milk supply you mention to put fennel oil under the breast.  Does this mean on the breast tissue?  Or the rib under the breast?  Does drinking a drop of fennel oil in water help?

On the tissue, oil in water won’t hurt, don’t forget the cow diet, oats, alfalfa sprouts, marshmallow root, trace minerals, lots of water, corn.

14. I  know there are oils that stimulate estrogen production, but what about progesterone? is my only option progessence cream?

Most of the oils that stimulate estrogen also stimulate progesterone.  They are also hormone balancing. The problem is that if you are low on estrogen it will stimulate estrogen! I sometimes wonder if estrogen gets stimulated first before progessence. Try some of the other oils other then clary sage. For example, bergamot, jasmine or ylang ylang. See what they do. Especially if you use them the second half of the period.

15. In an oil book I have it mentions to avoid Ruta oil while pregnant.  Ruta oil is in RutaVaLa.  Any experience with this?

Ruta comes from the herb Rue which is a know abortificient. It would take a bunch and probably heavily jump started to do have a miscarriage but just in case there is a caution in the books so in case you have used Ruta while pregnant and have a miscarriage you can blame the book for not having warned you. I would use it during pregnancy because I love Rutavala and don’t use it in big enough quantities to worry about it. Obviously it must have estrogen and other hormonal properties because some women have noticed that it increase libido and they run after their man as if they are a deer in rut.

16.  How do I improve my spinal discs, especially in my neck? You get to feed those discs and also keep the neck adjusted.

So Valor and Regneolone on the neck. I have seen Regenolone pop discs back in place. MSM, Sulferzyme, Traceminerals feed the discs. There is a product called Discat which is fantastic for feeding the disc. Glucosimine/chondrotin, Gelatin, Marjoram and raindrop on neck to release tight muscles that are pulling the neck out of place. http://www.guidance.org/store/product518.html BLM doesn’t have chondrotin in it. Only the glucosamine.

17. Last month you were saying that the mucus I was now seeing w/my colon cleanse was most likely from lung. How in the world does it go from lung to colon?

When an embryo is being formed it starts forming the core tissues first. All of these are related to one another so what effects one tissue will affect the other tissues like it. So that would be colon, stomach, esophagus, sinus, nose, vagina, bladder, lungs. Etc. Then comes mesophilia, muscles and organs and bones, then comes ectophilia which is skin and glands and hair etc. So that is one way they are connected so the mucus can move cell to cell. Or the mucus can be dumped in the lymph or into the blood and picked up by lymph and then dumped into the colon.

18. How do I get rid of varicose veins?

Dr Jensen and Dr Christopher say that varicose veins are caused by a toxic body and the toxins making the veins weak. I also think it is due to lack or nutrition. Calcium, trace minerals, vitamin C and E, phosphorus and potassium all strengthen the vein walls. Dr. Christopher says that white oak bark is an excellent toner for the veins. It is an astringent so it tightens the veins. He says to make a compress using the herb, I would add cistus and helicrysum to it, put it on the vein, soak rags in the tea and wrap it around the vein, cover it with an ace bandage and plastic wrap and go to bed. Do it until the vein shrinks. drink three cups of the tea a day,

19. . can you share why cholesterol goes up with low thyroid? what YL product recommendations do you have for reducing cholesterol and high LDL.? **

The thyroid is in charge of metabolism so if the thyroid is sending the signal to the body to metabolize fats then the cholesterol raises. Other factors may be the liver isn’t metabolizing fats or the diet just has too much fat in it. Cholesterol  is necessary for the body else we would look like jelly fish.  The cholesterol is the glue that holds the cells together.  It is also necessary for hormone production. To lower Cholesterol you get to raise your HDL. Eggs are rich in HDL and lethicin which fights cholesterol.  Increase lecthicin in the body. Increase good fatty acids like Omega blues. Eat garlic. Here is a recipe that I found on Dr. Wanana Wellsprings website:

This Chelation Beverage as I call it will help clean your arteries, make them stronger, and lower your cholesterol thus increasing your HDL/LDL ratios. Drink one glass every morning for six months.

Be sure to use good unsweetened juices.
½ apple juice
½ grape juice
Peppermint Tea

Boil 2 cups of water and remove from heat. Add 4 teabags of Peppermint Tea and steep until room temperature. The tea will be strong. Add this to ½ gallon container. Fill the container with the apple and grape juice enough to make ½ gallon of beverage. I found a brand of juice that is Cranberry, Apple and Grape already mixed up. This works very well also. You can also take two tablespoons of Berry Young Juice from Young Living if you are interested in boosting your immunity. The combination of Wolfberry and Grape or Cranberry Juice has been scientifically proven to increase your killer T cells. Wonderful tasting, too!

20. Towards the end of the summer, after swimming a lot I noticed a tremendous shift in my body and low thyroid symptoms. What do you recommend to assist the thyroid if you swim?

After swimming in a chlorinated pool, immediately shower to get off as much chlorine as you can. Then went you get home, soak in espsom salts and sea salt. I would put a cup of each in the tub. This will draw the chlorine out of the body. The salts may have drying affects on the skin so  use a massage oil or yl lotion on the skin after wards.  Use iodine patches or a good iodine supplement to compete with the chlorine in the body. Also drink some trace minerals and take purification and detoxyme by mouth to assist the body in getting rid of the chlorine. I would use myrtle on the thyroid also. Don’t forget kelp.

21. i also started using Immunpro to help with sleep and found a correlation in it’s effect on me hormonally. can you share more about the hormone side effects using melatonin?

Melatonin makes me nervous. I took it once and could feel the brain shut down. Melatonin is a brain hormone.  Melatonin inhibits dopamine and low dopamine is a problem in parkinson’s disease.  Long term use of Melatonin can cause infertility in men.  Large doses of melatonin can increase seizure activity in people prone to seizures.  It has been theorized that high doses of melatonin may increase intraocular pressure and the risk of glaucoma, age-related maculopathy and myopia, or retinal damage.  So that being said, I don’t know why Gary puts it in his formulas. I have only found synthetic melatonin on the market. I don’t use the products that he has melatonin in. I don’t like its effect on my body.

So how do I go to sleep? I used to have a noisy brain. I didn’t like Valerian because I could feel my brain shut down. But Valerian naturally increases your own Melatonin. So does chaste root and  Scull cap root. Before oils I used scull cap.  Then my oil days started and I would just hold peace and calming next to my nose until I feel asleep or I drop some on my pillow. I supported my adrenal more so it would stop running on high. I increased my b vitamins and magnesium so my body will relax.  I used valor to tone down the sympathetic nervous system as described in my book Ultimate Balance.  Now I go to sleep easily.

22. Do you have any advice on cleansing after chemotherapy?

Yes do it. However due to the amount of drugs in the system I would do it slowly and stay away from the Master Cleanse for a good while as it may dump too many drugs at once that might interact with one another.  Use a lot of espom salt baths and a machine like a beefe or ionic foot cleanse.  We had a show a few months back with Bonita Shelby about life after Chemo due to Breast Cancer. You may want to go back and review that.

23: can you share info on how someone can become Vitamin D deficient even when they get a fair amount of sun and do not use tons of sunscreen?

This could indicate different problems including kidneys, thyroid or liver not acting optimally  or not getting enough calcium to work with the Vitamin D.  I have a questionnaire that I can send out that will look at the body systems and see what is the problem that the body is not metabolizing Vitamin d. You can get this questionnaire by going to www.talktodrleane.com and purchasing a personal consultation.

Question: What is ‘water on the knee?’

Answer: Water on the knee is a generic term used by people to describe knee swelling. When excess fluid accumulates either in or around the knee joint, this is called water on the knee. The cause of water on the knee is usually arthritis. When patients have knee arthritis, fluid accumulation within the joint is a common finding. Patients often find relief when the fluid is removed from the joint, but the fluid can often reaccumulate.

Traumatic injuries can also cause accumulation of either fluid or blood within the joint. For example, meniscus tears and ligament injuries can cause fluid to collect. Furthermore, tearing of small blood vessels can cause fluid to accumulate within the knee, this is commonly seen in patients with an ACL tear.

Excess fluid around the joint can accumulate in the bursa, a condition called prepatellar bursitis. While the fluid is not actually within the knee joint itself, prepatellar bursitis also causes swelling, or water on the knee.

Treatment of water on the knee depends on the underlying problem. In cases of knee arthritis, the fluid may be drained from the knee. Patients are usually given anti-inflammatory medications or perhaps a cortisone injection. Patients with severe arthritis may eventually require surgery to treat their condition. For more information on treatment of meniscus tears or prepatellar bursitis, look through the following information:

Julie chertow and massage – next week!