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Oral Hydrogen Peroxide
Historical claim, not recommended: an old source suggested drinking hydrogen peroxide for bloating, but swallowing peroxide can cause serious internal burns and is never safe.
🛑 RemedyRank warns against this
Household 3 percent hydrogen peroxide can burn the mouth, throat, and stomach if swallowed.
This page exists so the reasons are written down plainly, not because the practice is recommended. Nothing is sold here. If a doctor has prescribed something for a diagnosed condition, follow their guidance — that is a decision between you and them, and it is a different thing from trying this at home.
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👶 Safe for children?
This remedy carries age-related cautions. Please read them before giving it to a child, and check with your pediatrician or pharmacist first.
- Keep all peroxide well away from children.
🌱 What it is
This is the practice of drinking diluted hydrogen peroxide, a chemical oxidizer, in hopes of easing bloating and gas.
📜 Where it comes from
An old remedy book suggested drinking about an ounce of diluted hydrogen peroxide, roughly twenty drops per ounce of water, twice a day before meals to ease bloating. This came from a niche modern naturopathic idea that oxygenating the digestive tract with peroxide could calm gas and discomfort.
🙏 Begin with prayer
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Dear God, my worry about this is sometimes heavier than the trouble itself. You invite me to bring every request to You with thanksgiving, so I bring this one now. Quiet my anxious thoughts, guard my heart with Your peace, and help me take one sensible step at a time — including asking for help when I need it. In Jesus' name, Amen.
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”— Philippians 4:6-7
🥄 How to use it
RemedyRank does not recommend this. Try the gentle published options for bloating instead: slow eating, a walk after meals, peppermint, fennel, or ginger teaA warm drink made by steeping herbs in hot water. How to make a tea →.
How much: None. Not recommended at any dose.
Why it works: The old claim supposed peroxide would oxygenate and calm the digestive tract, but swallowing hydrogen peroxide is dangerous; even household 3 percent can burn the mouth, throat, and stomach and cause vomiting and foaming, and stronger grades can cause serious internal burns, gas embolism, and death.
⚠️ Cautions
- Household 3 percent hydrogen peroxide can burn the mouth, throat, and stomach if swallowed.
- It can cause vomiting and dangerous foaming in the digestive tract.
- Stronger, so-called food-grade 35 percent peroxide can cause serious internal burns, gas embolism, and death.
- There is no safe oral dose of hydrogen peroxide.
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