The wife of CNN host Chris Cuomo is being criticized after revealing on her lifestyle blog that she poured half a cup of Clorox in her bath twice a week to help cure her coronavirus.
Magazine editor Cristina Cuomo shared that the bleach is ‘technically salt’ and she used it to ‘combat the radiation and metals in my system’, in direct contrast to warnings given by Clorox that contact with skin should be avoided.
Cristina, 50, claims the advice was provided by Dr. Linda Lancaster, who describes herself as an energy medicine and homeopathic physician and lists high-profile names such as Robert Redford among her clients.
Cristina, Chris, 49, and their son Mario Cuomo, 14, all tested positive for coronavirus although she and her husband have since recovered.
Cristina’s post was made just before President Donald Trump caused uproar for suggesting that injecting cleaning agents in the body and the use of ultraviolet lights could be coronavirus cures.
Magazine editor Cristina Cuomo says she poured bleach in her bath twice a week as she battled against coronavirus on the advice of an energy medicine doctor
Cristina, center, Chris, top left, and Mario Cuomo, bottom right, have all tested positive for coronavirus but their two daughters remain healthy. Chris and Cristina have recovered
Social media users quickly hit out at Cristina Cuomo for posting about her Clorox baths
‘At the direction of my doctor, Dr. Linda Lancaster, who reminded me that this is an oxygen-depleting virus, she suggested I take a bath and add a nominal amount of bleach. Yes, bleach,’ Cristina wrote.
‘So, I add a small amount– ½ cup ONLY–of Clorox to a full bath of warm water–why? To combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it.’
She also shared a direct quote from Lancaster in which the natural medicine physician claims that bleach is essentially salt.
‘We want to neutralize heavy metals because they slow-up the electromagnetic frequency of our cells, which is our energy field, and we need a good flow of energy. Clorox is sodium chloride–which is technically salt. There is no danger in doing this. It is a simple naturopathic treatment that has been used for over 75 years to oxygenate the cells,’ Lancaster said.
‘Household bleach is not chlorine.’
Social media users immediately hit back at Cristina’s recommendation, branding it ‘stupidity’ and highlighting that bleach is not ‘technically salt’.
‘My god, Chris Cuomo’s wife, Cristina, may be one of the dumbest people alive,’ one wrote.
‘She BATHED IN CLOROX to treat Coronavirus. She calls Clorox, “sodium chloride” which is technically salt. In reality, Clorox is sodium hypochlorite, Note: she graduated from Cornell…’
Cristina Cuomo shared the advice from Dr. Linda Lancaster on her lifestyle blog
Twitter users called her out for claiming that bleach is ‘technically salt’
‘I still don’t understand how this isn’t parody. I just can’t even,’ added another.
One accused her of editing the post, adding in the salt claim after the initial backlash.
‘Cristina Cuomo has now stealth edited her piece to claim that Clorox is “technically salt,”’ they said.
‘It’s absolutely is not, and unless a doctor prescribed a bleach bath for an extreme skin infection, it definitely compromises your body’s natural immune defenses.’
‘Please do not let an influencer influence you to bathe in Clorox,’ warned one Twitter user.
‘Stupidity is also an epidemic!’
Others compared it to President Trump’s disinfectant recommendation.
‘Christina Cuomo’s Clorox baths vindicated, or at least relatively less stupid seeming now,’ wrote Mother Jones reporter Dan Friedman.
Some social media users compared her comment to the cures pushed by President Trump
People rushed online to warn that the Clorox cure is potentially harmful
The advice flies in the face of warnings given by Clorox themselves, who say that direct skin contact should always be avoided.
The company lists specific advice about bathing in the bleach on its website stating: ‘Clorox® Regular Bleach2 is NOT recommended for personal hygiene of any kind–consumers should always avoid direct skin and eye contacts with both undiluted bleach, as well as prolonged contact with the various bleach solutions we recommend for household cleaning and laundry.’
It adds that customers may be familiar with advice to use bleach to treat water for consumption in an emergency but highlights that this ratio is significantly smaller, with only 1/8 teaspoon bleach needed per gallon of clear water.
The half cup recommended in Cuomo’s post is about 120 times more chlorine than is necessary to sterilize water out in the wild to drink.
On her own social media accounts, Lancaster has shared Cuomo’s recovery advice but highlights that ‘these recommendations should be discussed with your practitioner’.
On her website, she also features praise from other high-profile clients that include actress Amanda Seyfried, actor Robert Redford and model Miranda Kerr.
DailyMail.com reached out to Lancaster for comment.
Clorox lists a warning on its site that users should not bath in bleach water
Just as Cristina was receiving backlash online for the Clorox baths, her husband Chris was using his nightly CNN show to hit out at the cure suggestions made by President Trump.
Trump proposed unorthodox new treatments for the coronavirus at Thursday’s White House press briefing – including injecting cleaning agents in the body and use of ultraviolet lights.
Trump asked William Bryan, a senior Homeland Security science and technology advisor: ‘Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light? And I think you said, that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it.
‘And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting.’
Then he raised another possible treatment.
‘And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that,’ Trump said.
‘So that you’re going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds interesting to me,’ he said.
It came after Bryan delivered a report claiming that ultraviolet rays and heat have a potent impact on the pathogen.
The ‘study’ – which was not peer-reviewed and therefore is not a fully-fledged piece of research – also uncovered that bleach can destroy the virus when isolated from saliva within five minutes, while isopropyl alcohol took just a minute to kill it.
Both of those were when the virus was outside the body.
‘There is no science behind,’ Chris argued on his show.
‘The only question is where the president got this or what did he misinterpret.’
Cristina has since recovered from coronavirus after revealing her diagnosis earlier in April.
Chris had become a poster boy for coronavirus patients following his March 31 diagnosis, as he used his CNN show to broadcast information about his conditions from his basement quarantine.
He has also since recovered and rejoined the family in their Hamptons home Monday.
Cristina revealed Wednesday that their 14-year-old son Mario now also have the virus.
