Hi List: I have been drinking Colloidal Silver for the past two years, I have not had a cold of the flu during this time, also I wonder how soon this graying of the skin is suppose to take place, I have yet to notice such an occourence. From all the research I have done the medical journals are full of good results of CS, I wonder if doctors who have provided contrary information have ever read them.
In Good Health Ted >How do I subscribe to the Hepatitis List? > >Tom Clayton, MD > > > >I would appreciate those who can help with refute on this. Please if you >can post referance to source or if you could send entire aritcle I would >really appreciate it. I am on a list for people struggling with Hepatitis C. >As all list go when ever somone makes a stand on anything but the >approved pharmaceutical this stuff comes out of no where. I would like to >know the articles on bacteria and resistance to silver, or lack there of. >appreciate any info on this. Thanks in advance guys :-) > > >[Unproven product warning, Univ of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension News >Office, Madison 11/11/94] > >Colloidal Silver > >Colloidal silver is being touted as a "natural universal antibiotic." It is >also said to (guess what) "enhance the immune system" (which seems to have >become the universal claim for contemporary quackery!). Promoters claim >colloidal silver is useful for HIV/AIDS, cancer, herpes, candidasis, staph & >strep infections, shingles, TB, diabetes, as an antiparasitic medication, >and more. The FDA is not aware of any substantial evidence which >demonstrates that colloidal silver solution is useful to prevent or treat >any serious condition, or that it is safe. The substance has not been proved >safe or effective. FDA warns that the indiscriminate use of colloidal silver >solutions can result in argyria which includes a permanent ashen-grey >discoloration of the skin. > >************************************** > >[From "Here's To Your Health" November 1996, by Donald J. Carrow, MD] > >SILVER ANTIMICROBIAL PRODUCTS >Can They Deliver as Promised? > >A variety of silver-containing products are being marketed as antimicrobial >agents and/or immune system stimulators. In some cases literature for these >products contains claims for successful treatment of diseases such as >tuberculosis, bubonic plague and cholera. Some claim a total absence of >toxicity, regardless of the amount of product ingested. I believe that these >claims are not only unproven and very unlikely to be factual, but also that >they are potentially dangerous to both consumers and sellers. > >Silver compounds were used to some extent as antimicrobials in antiquity, >long before the discovery of bacteria and viruses. In more recent times >solutions or salves containing silver salts, and colloidal silver-protein >complexes, have been used topically in the treatment or prevention of >infections in the eye, nose or throat, and as antiseptics. In these roles, >despite their moderate effectiveness, they have largely been replaced by >more effective and safer agents. Silver metal itself appears to be >ineffective against microbes; it must be ionized to be active. > >The colloidal silver-protein preparations were once used to prevent colds, >but their effectiveness for this has not been demonstrated. To my knowledge, >no silver preparation has ever been properly demonstrated to be effective >against internal infections, except formerly in the treatment of gonorrhea, >by injection into the urethra. It is frequently claimed that silver has been >proven effective against hundreds of disease organisms - but these tests >have been conducted in test tubes or petri dishes, not in living animals or >humans. > >The major clinical use of silver today is as silver sulfadiazine, the silver >salt of a sulfa drug, which is widely used in the treatment of severe bums >to prevent or treat infection. > >Prolonged silver therapy can produce a discoloration of the skin, mucous >membranes and internal organs. Known as argyria or argyrism, this blue-black >appearance is irreversible. Other adverse effects have been reported and >include dermatitis (silver sulfadiazine), ocular toxicity (silver nitrate) >and cytotoxicity to white blood cells (from both components of silver >sulfadiazine). There have been isolated reports of more serious adverse >effects from use of silver products, and industrial exposures have also >resulted in systemic complaints and argyria. > >Medline literature searches have not yielded articles indicating other >antimicrobial uses for silver or any immune stimulating effects. The >majority of articles which were found relate to silver sulfadiazine or uses >of silver compounds incorporated into devises such as catheters to reduce >the risk of infection. In 1995, The Food & Drug Administration issued a >FRAUDULENT HEALTH BULLETIN No. 19 devoted to colloidal silver products. The >policy statement in this bulletin says in part, 'We are not aware of any >substantial scientific evidence which demonstrated that any OTC colloidal >silver solution is useful to prevent or treat any serious disease condition. >Colloidal silver products are misbranded when they're labeling falsely >represents or suggests that there is substantial scientific evidence to >establish that the drugs are safe and effective for their intended uses". > >Most of us are aware of the rapid development of antibiotic resistance by >pathogens and the chilling prospect of a future in which infectious diseases >are increasingly difficult to treat. Unfortunately, silver products do not >provide any reasonable substitute for antibiotics and, even within its very >limited range of use, the rapid development of bacterial resistance to >silver is well known. > >Consumers should not be misled about the usefulness of these products. >Despite the glowing claims, these products will neither prevent nor treat >pneumonia in the elderly or the common infections of the very young. > > > >-- >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]> > > > >-- >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]> > > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. 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