Thanks for sharing the Funk article. That article is about as close as we can come to "informed consent" until someone specifically puts colloidal silver to the test. My MD gave me a copy of it and it made me feel much better about taking CS once I realized the differences between it and prescription silver products that caused argyria.
I am glad to have that article, but caution others that reading brief abstracts of it are very misleading. In context, you will find all the cautions regard large-particle, highly concentrated silver salts, silver protein prescriptions, elemental silver in drinking water, and industrial overdose. Colloidal silver is just "tacked on" to the article but never directly observed or reported on other than to show some brand names and their strengths in a chart. The strengths are far lower than the silver products that reportedly have caused argyria. The Fung article is just a review of pre-existing research & findings, none specific to low ppm, small particle CS. We all get elemental silver in the milk & mushrooms we digest, and we are not turning blue. And for years, our ancestors ate with silverware, pregnant or not. I'm not saying it's o.k. to take low ppm CS in pregnancy. I don't have a scientific answer to that. But now we may wonder, is it o.k. to eat mushrooms and drink milk in pregnancy??? :) Sincerely, Nancy B. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [email protected] [email protected] Home schoolers: CHEAP used books http://www.oikourgos.com/cheap Oikos Interactive Family Journal http://www.oikourgos.com/oikos Lyme Disease info: http://www.oikourgos.com/trisha About Colloidal silver (non-commercial) http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/silver-works ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 9:16 PM Subject: Re: CS>Re: CS and pregnancy >Hi Brooks Bradley and all > .Please don't shoot the messenger. I am only reporting others research. I >agree with you 100%. I was very troubled with the obviously flawed research >done by Fung, et al. Please read these papers yourself. My option is that >Fung and Bowen have presented a very poor risk/benifit analysis. They have >left out critical data to substantiate most of there claims. They have many >misleading and conflicting statements which leave me with more questions than >answers. This is an important paper for political reasons. I was planning on >providing more information on the paper if anyone is interested. > > >-- > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
