People who Partake in Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth?

[MrFluffyandGirls]

I was reading up about using food grade diatomaceous earth for chickens and saw that people actually ingest it also for health benefits. There were a wide range of opinions on adding it to chicken feed or liberally applying it to chickens and in there coops/nests so I'm not sold on it just yet for my chickens other than adding it to the dust bath dirt area.
Now, I am curious to know if any of you out there use it yourself for personal health or nutritional reasons? What has it done to improve any conditions or the benefits you get from taking it? There were so many mixed reviews now my wondering mind wants to know!

 

[Kloie Grace]

I am also wondering!

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's not good for anything. Food grade isn't even safe.
The truth is that it's full of carcinogens that'll cause cancer over time if continuously used.

 

[featherhead007]

I think my old college roommate used to snort it up his nose. does that count?

 

[featherhead007]

Only thing I use DE for, is ant control, and my pool filter.

 

[Coffeewastedmomma]

I have heard(vaguely) of people using it for personal health reasons, but honestly never paid much attention to the whys. Or what it is supposed to do.
Curious to hear..

I do use it sprinkled into coop and run, and in the dust bath. Although they will peck/eat it. I do not put it directly into their feed.

 

[Kloie Grace]

Only thing I use DE for, is ant control, and my pool filter.

How do you use it for your pool filter?

 

[CindyinSD]

It's perhaps benign, as long as it's pure, but DE is a mined mineral and as such very difficult to control contaminants that are naturally occurring minerals in the same mining area. I don't know what minerals might be expected to commonly accompany DE, but humans don't really benefit much from eating inorganic minerals. That's why we eat plants and animals, not pulverized rocks.

I did put some in my coop in a dust bath and regretted it. It didn't take long for everything to become covered in a film of gray dust. I have a big bag. Anyone nearby who wants it can have it.

 

[featherhead007]

How do you use it for your pool filter?

I have a paper cartridge filter system. Adding DE to the intake, makes the filter catch even smaller particles of dust and dirt.

 

[featherhead007]

It's perhaps benign, as long as it's pure, but DE is a mined mineral and as such very difficult to control contaminants that are naturally occurring minerals in the same mining area. I don't know what minerals might be expected to commonly accompany DE, but humans don't really benefit much from eating inorganic minerals. That's why we eat plants and animals, not pulverized rocks.

I did put some in my coop in a dust bath and regretted it. It didn't take long for everything to become covered in a film of gray dust. I have a big bag. Anyone nearby who wants it can have it.

I used DE for dust bath areas. Stupid idea, the birds came down with respiratory problems. Some I could cure, others weren't so lucky.