Hello out there ! Ist my first posting here. My name is Michael, from northern Germany. Not a silver-seller ant not a consumer of CS. I observe your discussions somehow from outside. I am in a different business (meteorology), but i studied med long time ago.
Acute toxicity of silver: it is considered that 10 g of silver nitrate taken orally is a lethal dose of man. The systemic effects of a lethal dose are preceded by severe haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and shock. According to Goodman and Gilman (1965) the silver ion seems first to stimulate and then depress structures in the brain stem as silver has a neurotoxic effect in higher doses. Central vasomotor stimulation results in a rise in blood pressure. At the same time there is bradycardia due to central vagal stimulation. Death eventually results from respiratory depression. I have read that value -3.8 grams- a couple of times. It was related to the amount of silver necessary to procduce argyria in man. But in the past argyria occured also at much lower amounts of silver. The lowest possible amount of silver that may start argyria may be around 900 mg to 1 gram in some particular sensitive people. That value of 3.8 gram is of course a calculated value, it does not mean that 3.7 grams are safe and 3.9 gram are dangerous... and ist a value related to a prolonged use of silver, not to a single dose. Some people took hundreds of grams of silver over years and survived. For more details and references and some data concerning silver-reistance in bacteria, i translated a text into (simple) English. Please excuse may errors... http://www.redecke.de/michael/silver.htm Michael ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de -- 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]>
