They use silver nitrate JOH, at least they did on my baby and I believe it is still the practice. Tetracycline is not effective against all the resistant strains in hospitals these days.
Garnet On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 00:17, James Holmes wrote: > Unless there has been a sudden reversal of policy, most modern practice is > to run a bead of optical Tetracycline cream across each eyeball shortly > after birth. They may have switched to another antibiotic. > > I suppose that Silver Nitrate may be used in impoverished areas of the world > because it costs so much less. I think that one drop was placed in the > inner canthus. I do not recall the concentration. It stings, and the > Tetracycline does not. > > JOH > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Re: finger method cs generation > > > At 08:32 AM 4/9/2004 -0500, Garnet wrote: > > >The lethal dose of Silver Nitrate in mice is 50 mg/kg. In humans the > >lethal dose of Silver salts is 1 gram. So yes there are risks for those > >who do not educate themselves and exercise due caution in their set up. > > And yet it's used for *external* application... > > "Most doctors treat newborns with silver nitrate or other medicine to keep > them from getting gonorrhea in the eyes, which can cause blindness. " > > http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/factsheets/std.htm > > What is NOT mentioned here is that it's applied to the eyes [a doctor told > me] in some fashion that I'm not > particularly aware of...on the eyeball or what? > > stuff > > > > -- > 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: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: > http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > >
