Hi Rowena, Thank You very much for digging this out and posting it! Take care, Malcolm
On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 23:37 +0800, Rowena wrote: > COLLOIDAL SILVER'S VALUE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Information4U > > A new study published in JAMA is sure to have an unintended result – > dramatically boosting the sales of colloidal silver around the country > as a powerful immune support mineral. The study was actually about > the use of silver-coated tubes in hospital patients, and it showed a > 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), with a > 48% reduction over the first 10 days (the common length of tube use > for many). > > Silver has been used in Greece, Rome, and Europe for centuries as a > medicinal germ-killing metal to prevent food spoilage, enhance wound > healing, and protect against nasty infections like the plague. > Various antibiotic silver preparations were in widespread use in the > United States prior to the invention of the FDA, meaning that silver > has been grandfathered in as a natural remedy the FDA has little > control over. > > Nevertheless, the FDA routinely attacks makers of colloidal silver – > especially when products are associated with claims of curing AIDS or > some other nasty infection. In fact, the FDA makes an effort to > discredit silver as an effective antibiotic even when there is a > mountain of evidence and consumer use that says otherwise. Naturally > there are higher quality silver products, but the overall tone of the > FDA is more like the mafia trying to protect turf. > > The new JAMA study is interesting for several reasons. Tube-related > infections are life-threatening and cause many unnecessary deaths > every year. Bacteria and Candida form biofilms on tubes, which is > actually an effort on the part of one's body to reject a foreign > substance that has come into close contact with living tissue. Such > infections cause your immune system to go and look at the tube, and if > your immune system had its way it would dissolve the tube to get rid > of it. This natural defense against the tube poses a serious > treatment challenge when a tube has a medical necessity to be there – > especially for any length of time. > > The silver-coated tubes were designed to steadily release silver ions, > not much different than taking colloidal silver as a dietary > supplement. The researchers explain how this works, "Silver kills > bacteria and yeast by sticking to the organisms' enzymes, genetic > material and other molecular components, preventing basic functions > and interfering with reproduction. These organisms very rarely develop > resistance to silver, and the metal has no known side effects in > humans. The new endotracheal tubes are coated with a > silver-containing polymer, created by C.R. Bard Inc., that releases > silver ions to the surface of the tubes. There, silver exerts a > broad-spectrum antimicrobial effect, reduces adhesion of bacteria to > the tube and blocks the formation of biofilms, communities of > microorganisms that build up special protective structures on > surfaces… this is just the beginning for this kind of technology." > > A silver renaissance is now under way. > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
