Pneumonia can cause the lungs to fill with water. Not sure of the salinity of it though. Of course when that happens one has difficulty breathing, but is it because of the water, edema, mucus, or the infection? Possibly a combination of these.
Marshall [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 10/15/2001 10:16:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > >> She is saying that the water will cause the saline wetting of the >> lung >> tissue to be diluted, thus causing the cells to absorb more water >> and >> possibly cause some type of problem. >> >> This is pure nonsense. The amount of water in the colloidal spray >> is so >> slight that it is virtually invisible. It evaporates spontaneously >> in >> less than a second. If this were a problem then taking a walk in a >> heavy fog would be deadly, since the amount of water breathed into >> the >> lungs would be many times that from the nebulizer, and out species >> would >> have died out long ago. Heck people can "drown" and be revived >> after >> getting the water out of the lungs and be fine. >> >> Marshall > > Marshall: Are there ANY examples related to what she is talking about > that can cause breathing or other difficulties? I'd like to think she > had some ailment in mind. From what you're saying it seems she was > giving me some theoretical mumbo jumbo (perhaps taking advantage of my > ignorance of physiology) to scare me away from nebulizing. Do you mean > to say a physician would do that? My own daughter? Roger -- 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] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
