And that’s the problem with quackery, that they sell hope to the hopeless. Emphasis on sell.
What bugs me about the whole colloidal silver thing is that all the naysayers wrap themselves in white lab-coats, parrot the same establishment sources touting pricey meds vs something that can be made for cheap (1 gallon of distilled water and pennies worth of silver make a whole gallon of c-Ag), yet never even bothered to just try the damned stuff.
Silver is used extensively in burn wards. Silver was even added to Band-Aids to help healing. Gauze infused with silver is used to treat diabetic ulcers which don’t heal otherwise. Silver’s being added to clothing to make your sweat-stank that much less. Silver silver silver. And these aren’t “silver nuts” touting it, but commercial interests.
Here’s what I tell them, but which falls on deaf ears. Snap together 3 or 4 9V batteries (27V-36V) and run current through silver wires immersed in distilled water. Instructions abound all over the web for details. Shine a laser through it. It’ll start out crystal clear, and you’ll be able to see the beam more and more as more colloid forms. When it’s done, use it.
Everyone knows the just-inhaled-a-cottonball feeling right before you come down with a cold. Chug some c-Ag. What I’ve done is make 16oz or so for a massive dose. Chug the first third to get it into your system. Sip the second third over the course of the day. At night or the next morning, chug the last third.
It should taste like plain water, but have a metallic aftertaste to it. That’s the Good Stuff.
If it doesn’t work, by the next morning you’ll have a just-inhaled-a-Brillo-pad feeling instead, as if you did nothing special. If it does work, you’ll feel way way better, and ultimately not come down with the cold. I speak from experience on this, and I kinda doubt any placebo could knock back a cold overnight. (And the rich irony is that Ag is poopooed, yet Zn lozenges are universally recommended!)
If you wait too long and give the cold a chance to get a foothold, you’ll still end up feeling sick, as the damage has already been done, but you’ll also heal that much faster.
So no, you don’t have to spend 40bux a bottle on who-knows-what that’s labelled colloidal silver. Make yer own, cheaply, and fairly easily (Hell, people who mod lights for fun can’t string together some Ag wires in DW??). There really is no excuse. And anyone who does take me up on testing it, if you’re intellectually honest about it, you’ll give it a fair shake, vs torpedoing the effort just to be able to declare it doesn’t work.
It seems to me that people put way more effort in trying to trash colloidal silver than just do some cheap’n’easy testing of their own. And even so, there’s no proof that’s acceptable or even possible. Personal anecdotes are instantly and summarily dismissed. Like someone dressed in a labcoat and stroking his beard is the only one who can pronounce judgment on it. Hell, for some time, “scientists” declared that it was aerodynamically impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Someone should’ve told that to the bumblebee…
Now you know my frustration trying to discuss the issue. “Hello, wall!”
Some info I just grabbed in about 30sec…
Podiatry Today: https://www.podiatrytoday.com/article/3156
Advanced Tissue: https://www.advancedtissue.com/4-types-of-impregnated-wound-dressings/
Silverlon: Silver Antimicrobial Wound Dressings | Silverlon
Silvercel: http://www.acelity.com/products/silvercel-dressing
whups, sorry, it was Curad, not Band-Aid: Antibacterial silver products finally begin to emerge after years of FDA oppression