Any of you use a silver solution in preventing ailments?

[illinoisguy]

If so, where do you buy? Do you think it helps?

[lurnin2farm]

Yes collodial silver is easy to make. Tons of info on the net on how to do it and way less expensive than buying it.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-...y#.UhdzYX_hddw

Researchers at Harvard and Boston Universities studied the antibiotic mechanisms of silver. They conducted a series of experiments with E. coli in petri dishes and in live mice suffering from urinary tract infections to see how the precious metal kills Gram-negative bacteria. Their findings revealed that silver stages a multi-targeted attack on even the best-armed bacteria, breaking down their cell walls and increasing their production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). An increase in ROS molecules, as a result of traditional antibiotics or silver, triggers bacterial cell death. To make such treatments even more effective, researchers combined silver with other antibiotics. The silver acted as a sort of Trojan horse, delivering the treatment inside the cells’ fortresses where it could do more damage to bacterial cells. The result was that antibiotics plus silver were 10 to 1,000 times more effective at fighting infections in mice than antibiotics alone, according to the results published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Even antibiotic-resistant strains fell prey to the drugs when paired with silver.
What’s more, the addition of silver made antibiotics effective against new targets. The powerful antibiotic vancomycin is normally used for difficult-to-treat infections like MRSA (a strain of Staphylococcus infection) and other drug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria. The antibiotic doesn’t do much against Gram-negative microbes, but with the addition of silver, this drug was able to wipe out an E. coli infection in mice.

[chickenista]

Yes.
It is amazing.
And modern, Western medicine is catching on as well.

[suitcase_sally]

And it's great for the complexion. Turns it grey so you look like a vampire.

[Pearl B]

Others swear by it. Ive tried it & it didnt do anything for me. Ive tried homemade & the best stuff on the market.

[Tabitha]

Originally Posted by Pearl B

Others swear by it. Ive tried it & it didnt do anything for me. Ive tried homemade & the best stuff on the market.

Did you have a virus? It does not do a thing for that. I have used it for pink eye.

[Harry Chickpea]

Use it. Make it. It works.

[Pearl B]

Originally Posted by Tabitha

Did you have a virus? It does not do a thing for that. I have used it for pink eye.

Yes & No. I used when I had colds & when I didnt. When I didnt have a cold, I didnt notice feeling any better. When I had a cold/virus, it did nothing. I dont think it prevented my catching one either.

[paradox]

Originally Posted by suitcase_sally

And it's great for the complexion. Turns it grey so you look like a vampire.

Yes if you make your own of unknown quality and drink it by the gallons and rub it on your skin. As with anything, too much is just too much (I bet a couple of bottles of amoxcillin every day for a long period would do some damage as well). All the cases I read about of people changing color it was pretty clear they were getting carried away.

[Harry Chickpea]

Silly - vampires are allergic to silver. Makes you look hot and sexy.

[paradox]

I am kind of a skeptic on some of these remedies but not for the reasons you would think. I totally believe that nature contains things to solve most of our issues. I cerainly believe that early natural medicine is the basis for our modern meds. What I don't always trust is people who push these things. I think there are a lot of scammers out there that are passing off bad info about natural rememdies or just plain passing off bad products. For example there are probably some brands of silver out there that are just crap and others that work. Anyway, I am willing to try things but I think I judge them pretty objectively because I don't automatically believe it is going to work like magic.

That said - We do use silver for strep throat. Two kids in public schools, two adults working in busy manufacturing plants with people who have kids, and an ever present family member who drives a school bus will bring strep into your home serveral times a year.

When I hear it is going around, then at the first mention of a sore throat we gargle with one teaspoon of it. Repeat that a couple times a day if it still feels sore. We use a brand called Sovereign Silver. It seems to stop it dead in its tracks with just a couple of doses. Nobody in my household has had to go to the doctor with strep in over 10 years.

I don't try it for viruses as not many meds can do anything about those. I have tried it on cuts and things that I thought might get infected. None of them have, but then you really can't say for sure they would have without it so that is a toss up.

I do take it internally if I have something like a sinus infection but I really think it works best when it can get directly on the parts that are germy rather than working its way through your system. I tried putting it in a sinus rinse but with that much dilution, just not sure it helped. And it is too expensive to rinse with it straight. Maybe you could put it in a nasal spray bottle and effectively snort just a little? I have not tried that yet but have thought about it.