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Melaleuca Tea Tree Oil

Avoid Melaleuca Tea Tree Oil

Melaleuca alternifolia the herb, is tea tree oil. Tee tree oil is to be avoided with PLD. From reading published medical articles, melaleuca is a potent endocrine disruptor affecting breast tissue growth in young boys. It is possible that melaleuca can ↑ liver cyst growth in PLD. It is to be avoided. 

Melaeuca PLD

However there is some evidence that tea tree oil can be useful as an antifungal agent. Melaleuca is reported to have broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against bacterial, viral, fungal, and protozoal infections affecting skin and mucosa.

Since being diagnosed with severe PLD polycystic liver disease, I have become an avid ingredients reader. Scrutinize individual ingredients and check them out if they can help or hinder PLD, not willing to take any chances of increasing liver cyst growth, I error on the side of avoidance. Consider the articles from the pulldown menu. These studies came from observations which signaled further research.

-- select MELALEUCA or TEA TREE OILS article -- MELALEUCA or TEA TREE OILS may cause breast growth in boys MELALEUCA or TEA TREE OILS boy using hair gel gynaecomastia MELALEUCA or TEA TREE OILS endocrine disruptors MELALEUCA or TEA TREE OILS broad spectrum antimicrobial activity

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We are  sharing our experiences with PKD/PLD Diet, an adjunct diet envisioning it complementing a physician's prescribed medical therapy. Consider testing this with your doctor's prior knowledge, who can  adjust it according to your own uniqueness by adding it to your current  treatment.

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