If I recall correctly silver nitrate was used extensively until the drug cartel convinced the hospitals to use their patent medicines instead since silver nitrate was too cheap.
The result was some cases in which antibiotic resistant gonerriah was not killed, and a baby would go blind. A number of hospitals got sued big time over that, the argument being that they intentionally replaced something that worked 100% of the time with something that did not work 100% of the time for no good reason except the antibiotic cost more. At least one of the lawsuits resulted in a major settlement against a hospital around here. So some hospitals have switched back to silver nitrate from what I understand, and both are now used. Marshall Garnet wrote: > 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]> > > > > > > > >
