Thanks for the update; sometimes the old ways are best.

JOH

-----Original Message-----
From: Garnet [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 6:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: CS>Re: finger method cs generation


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
> 
> 
> 
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