Hi and welcome, Kathy!
I bet you'll get some info on CS, as well as a few other suggestions
of
how to help your son's body get over the acne problem.
The actual definition of "Colloidal Silver" in practice is a slippery
thing. Those words have been applied to many products made in
different
ways and with different characteristics; everything from chemical
precipitates to protein suspensions to concentrated silver salts have
been named and mis-named as "CS."
What we like to call CS would be:
Pure silver in pure water with no additives.
Not a silver salt or other compound.
Modest concentrations of maybe 5 to 20 ppm.
Usually mostly ionic, monoatomic or dissolved silver,
with some particulate silver.
Most often made by an electrolytic process.
Usually clear, colorless, with a faint tyndall effect
(that makes a laser beam shown through it visible).
Water Oz is not forthcoming in saying exactly what their silver
product
is or how it's made. The analysis by other people I remember reading
about pegged it as a silver salt. It is one commercial product that
has
been associated with several cases of argyria in people who used
larger
doses than are recommended by the manufacturer.
If you haven't already heard of it, argyria is a blue/grey
discoloration of the skin or other tissues which is cosmetically
objectionable but appears to have no other health effect. In severe
cases it is seriously disfiguring, although mild cases have been
reported that did not seem to interfere with the person's normal
activities. It was long thought to be irreversible, but at least a
couple of approaches have been developed recently that, though
difficult, produce satisfactory results.
It is most likely to develop in people who a) ingest very large
amounts
of total silver, most often silver compounds, and b) are deficient in
the minerals needed to handle excretion of metals. The body is
normally
very good at eliminating silver within days, unless those excretory
pathways are overwhelmed by total quantity or inhibited by lack of
essential minerals. Supplementing selenium and probably zinc and
magnesium, will help assure their proper functioning.
Obviously, you'd choose to avoid the problem altogether, so I would
suggest not using more than the recommended dose of the product you
have bought, and replacing it with a different, more appropriate
preparation when it runs out. One bottle won't turn your son blue, but
gallons of it may, under the wrong conditions.
Okay, having thoroughly acquainted you with the only known potential
downside, let's talk about the successful use of CS! <grin>
Most of us make our own CS using generators we've bought or built
ourselves. You will then know for sure what's in it and how it's made,
not to mention saving a heck of a lot of money. When you consider the
difference in price between commercial products and distilled water,
the generator will pay for itself quickly.
I'm sure folks will also mention other commercial brands for you to
consider.
A daily oral dose and spraying or rubbing it on topically have been
reported to help quite a bit. Acne may not be entirely an issue of
infection, though, and CS mostly works by killing germs, so you'll
probably be drawn into a study of nutrition, supplementation, and
other
strategies to control the remaining factors that contribute to it.
I wish you well, and welcome!
Mike D.
Hi I am Kathy - I just subbed to your group. Hope to learn more about
CS. I am on a never ending quest to clear up my 13 yo son's acne,
which
is mainly on his back but spreading. Recently I have started using
clay
which helped a little but not much. Yesterday I bought a bottle of
what
I thought was CS but now I am not sure... It says silver dietary
supplement. It is made by Water Oz. Is this the same thing?
Kathy
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