You may have read on the NCCAM website or on Wikipedia that ''silver
may interfere with the absorption of some antibiotics (thereby
reducing their effectiveness.).
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver
This claim has intrigued me for some time so I have tried to follow
it up. Googling produced no answers. Neither did searching the PubMed
website. So I emailed the NCCAM and requested a reference for the
claim. They emailed back and said it comes from the this FDA safety
alert...
http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/
SafetyAlertsAdvisories/ucm184087.htm
The FDA Safety Alert contains no reference for the claim either, so I
next emailed the FDA and asked them for a reference.
Their response was "Please contact the FOI staff at (301) 796-3900 to
determine whether the records you are seeking are maintained in the
Public Reading Room, Electronic Reading Room, or if the information
requires the submission of a FOI request."
Thats as far as I have gotten so far but interestingly Steve Barwick
has pursued the same enquiry with the same response. He claims to
have filed an FOI request and is awaiting an answer.
Regardless, it seems remarkably hard to a find refererence for this
quite extraodinary and oft repeated claim.
Normally I wouldnt trust a word that Stave Barwick writes but in this
case he produces what I think is quite a reasonable and informative
article that corresponds closely with my own experience. You may find
it interesting...
http://www.thesilveredge.com/does-colloidal-silver-really-interfere-
with-the-absorption-of-certain-medications.shtml
Regards
David
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