According to the article "Silver Products for Medical Indications: Risk- Benefit Assessment" by Man Fung and Debra Bowen, they included a paragraph on a case control epidemiology study on the potential risk for the developing fetus when pregnant women use silver products. (actually the study Fung refers to has nothing to due with "silver products", only silver in drinking water).
The study was conducted by Aschengrau et al. They studied women who delivered infants form 1977 to 1980 in a Massachusetts hospital. They looked at the trace silver (0.001 mg/L) in the public water and late adverse pregnancy outcomes. The results suggested some association between exposure of silver in the drinking water and some increase in fetal development anomalies (ear, face and neck). The authors recognize this study only suggests a possible risk and more research is needed (of course). This is all I know and for more information you may wish to purchase the complete study: Aschengrau A, Zierler S, Cohen A. "Quality of community drinking water and the occurrence of late adverse pregnancy outcomes" Arch Environ Health 1993: 48:105-113. I get these reports for Healthgate on AOL. Take care, Rick Stellmacher -- 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]>
