| Lymehelp 2006-09-30, 8:25 am |
| it works great and im not blue.
"Usenet Supreme Commander Chuck" <chuckadams05@aol.com> wrote in message
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> FDA laboratory studies have found that the amount of silver in some
> product samples has varied from 15.2% to 124% of the amount listed on
> the product labels. The amount of silver required to produce argyria is
> unknown. However, the FDA has concluded that the risk of using silver
> products exceeds any unsubstantiated benefit [3]. So far, eleven cases
> of argyria related to silver products have been reported:
>
> A 56-year-old man who had sold and used colloidal silver for three
> years, developed blue/gray discoloration of his fingernails accompanied
> by a very high blood level of silver [4].
> A married couple who had three years of daily consumption of a drink
> prepared by administering an electrolytic charge to a bowl of water
> that contained a silver bar [5].
> Another couple had been taking a silver-containing "dietary supplement"
> prescribed by a naturopath [5].
> A mentally ill man who had been drinking silver-containing herbal tea
> for about 10 months [5].
> Stan Jones, Montana's Libertarian Party candidate for the U.S. Senate,
> who reportedly started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that
> Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics. He made his
> own concoction by electrically two silver wires in a glass of water
> [6].
> Two men, ages 63 and 76, developed argyria after a year of product use
> inspired by Internet claims [7].
> A 16-year-old boy developed blue-gray pigmentation of his entire body
> after ingesting a silver-containing dietary supplement for a year. The
> product, packaged so that it was identical to bottled water. was touted
> as a preventive for everyday infections [8].
> A 58-year-old man who treated a presumed kidney infection with a
> home-brewed colloidal solution 12 times a day for 4 days developed
> argyria about 4 weeks later [9].
> A 38-year-old man developed argyria after ingesting approximately 16
> ounces of 450 ppm colloidal silver three times a day for 10 months to
> treat his arthritis and other conditions. He made the solution with a
> simple battery-operated chamber that leached silver from pure silver
> wire. He had obtained the plans from information on the Internet [10].
> The photograph to the right shows how his skin color compares to that
> of normal skin.
>
>
>
> http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quacker...s/silverad.html
>
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