The best thing you can hope for from testing a new medicine is that you are the first to enjoy the cure. The worst thing is you could suffer side effects and die. The most peculiar thing is that you might turn blue. In the early part of the 20th century, medicines containing microscopic silver particles were sold as a way to cure infections. This was the time before antibiotics had come about and silver content in medicines was believed to have cured some infections.
Collodial Silver is the internet’s newest wonder drug and unfortunately is being promoted in the same way as if a 19 or 20th century hustler was selling it. It is being claimed that governments are conspiring to suppress this miracle drug and they spend much time convincing you that all other forms of the drug are fake and that they hold the key to your cure.
It is being claimed recently that collodial silver will cure a list of ailments including AIDS and many other non (scientifically) curable conditions, which at the end of the day will only bring false hope to those who least need it.
There is reported to be only one condition that hustlers don’t claim collodial silver to cure and that is argyria. Why not? Well to put it quite simply, because colloidal silver is reported to cause the condition!
What is Argyria and what causes it? I’m no expert but it does appear that most experts believe colloidal silver is the cause of argyria, it does seem to be a hotly debated subject.
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Argyria is a
skin condition which effectively makes the skin go a colour of grey or
blue and it is believed that in the concentration sold back in the 1900’s this may well have been possible. However, many would argue that what is sold these days is little more than water.
The Today Show ran a follow up story this morning about Paul Karason, a man whose skin turned blue after he took colloidal silver for a skin condition. They paid for him to have a complete physical and whilst he wasn’t the healthiest of individuals, everything turned out normal. The suggestion is that because he has continued for the past year to take colloidal silver, his skin is still blue.
Colloidal silver is a liquid which contains microscopic particles of silver. Although it has never been scientifically proven that colloidal silver actually heals, many people still take it, even though a side effect is that it may turn the skin blue. Paul Karason, called the Blue Man by the Today Show seems to enjoy all of the attention he gets.
Not all sufferers of the condition welcome the attention.
In 1996, a woman named Rosemary told a Canadian reporter what it's like to have argyria. In 1953, when she was 11 years old, her doctor prescribed colloidal silver nose drops for her colds. At the age of 14, a pharmacist looked at her one day and said, Why are you that color? Soon after, it became obvious to everyone that she Rosemary was ash gray colored. She stopped taking the drops, but the condition didn’t clear up.
As a public service, Rosemary has published a Web site to warn people against taking colloidal silver. On it she writes that the only thing she recommends colloidal silver for is as "a gray skin dye -- it is safe, effective, and permanent when used for that purpose.
I’m no medical expert but I would warn against the merits of responding to spam email suggesting that somebody has identified a miracle suitably developed for any condition you might have. The people who are most likely to require medicating are the individuals who continue to believe and make such miraculous claims.