Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 > 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. Makes one wonder what they're selling out there, doesn't it? There's another one; the blue senator.... he was drinking a quart a day of a black colloidal silver of extremely high concentration he was leaving to brew overnight. I think he said he'd been doing it that way for about 10 years. The moral if there is one is like anything, don't exceed the necessary dosage, which is safe. Better instructions can be obtained from the silver list: http://silverlist.org > > [Wickless SC, Schwader TA. Medical mystery -- The answer. New England > Journal of Medicine 352:2349-2350, 2004] This is at least the tenth > such case reported in the United States within the past five years. > [barrett S. Colloidal silver: Risk without benefit. > > > Quackwatch Web site, revised 11/30/04] > http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.ht > ml Everyone has an opinion, but it's better if they are formed with a degree of fact behind them. Barret S, the Quackwatch founder whom you just quoted, passes himself as an expert in many fields, provides no facts. He has been found to be biased and not expert in anything, by federal judges in three nations, the USA, Canada and New Zealand. That's good enough for me. Addressing the actual study he refers to, the compounds that caused argyria were primarily not electrocolloidal silver, and none were done with the correct dosage. Because 90% of silver is excreted in 30 hours, it takes an awful high concentration and dosage to accumulate 6 grams and cause argyria. If you do the math, at 12 parts per million you're looking at 160 gallons daily. The daily dosage for electrocolloidal silver at 12 parts per million is nearly always less than a quart short term, and usually around an ounce or two. regards, Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Ya know... in a way, if it was a NICE blue... that could almost be tempting. ALMOST. If it were reversable. I mean... how many blue people do YOU know? Then again, I'm from the generation where body piercings and tattoos are the norm, and live in a city where a homeless cross-dresser (who can SO not pass!) ran for mayor, and there's a guy who's COMPLETELY covered in a blue " jigsaw puzzle " tattoo from head to toes. Go fig. SulaBlue > > 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. > > Makes one wonder what they're selling out there, doesn't it? > > There's another one; the blue senator.... he was drinking a quart a > day of a black colloidal silver of extremely high concentration he > was leaving to brew overnight. I think he said he'd been doing it > that way for about 10 years. > > Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Okay...I've got to ask...where do you live? Vicki Re: Argyria > > > Ya know... in a way, if it was a NICE blue... that could almost be > tempting. ALMOST. If it > were reversable. I mean... how many blue people do YOU know? > > Then again, I'm from the generation where body piercings and tattoos > are the norm, and > live in a city where a homeless cross-dresser (who can SO not pass!) > ran for mayor, and > there's a guy who's COMPLETELY covered in a blue " jigsaw puzzle " > tattoo from head to > toes. > > Go fig. > > SulaBlue > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 At 09:57 PM 12/1/04, SulaBlue wrote: >Ya know... in a way, if it was a NICE blue... that could almost be >tempting. ALMOST. If it >were reversable. I mean... how many blue people do YOU know? LOL!! I'm glad to see someone was thinking the say way I was! >Then again, I'm from the generation where body piercings and tattoos are >the norm, I'm not, but at age 64 I decided to get a tattoo along the hairline, mid-forehead to ear, on one side of my face. 8-) sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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