COLLOIDAL SILVER AND THE "CRISIS OF ANTIBIOTICS" With more than 125,000 websites which speak of it, colloidal silver is undoubtedly one of current successes in terms of health products, at least in the United States.
So what is the reason for this passion? Simply amazing properties of this product: it removes a very large number of pathogenic bacteria, including strains resistant to antibiotics, as well as many viruses and parasites. It seems to cause no resistant strains. When prepared and administered properly, it is not toxic and has no side effects.
Could it be the last "leading edge" drug invented by modern science? Not exactly, since you can even produce it at home at a very reasonable cost and that medicinal use of metallic silver goes back to ancient times! In the first half of the twentieth century it was even one of the drugs most employees, especially against all kinds of infection. What is rather new is that, there are constantly refined techniques with which it is produced for some years which give it a degree of efficacy and safety previously unknown.
In fact, what exactly is it? Simply silver particles suspended or dissolved in distilled water. But they are not quite ordinary particles, since in the best available products; they "reach" sizes of less than a nanometer that is to say in millionth of millimeter! Ultramicroscopic particles of this size are able to penetrate inside cells and destroy viruses located in there.
The major interest and the crucial importance of such a product at our time are obvious when one examines the plight of modern medicine in its war against pathogenic microorganisms.
The thundering successes achieved initially with antibiotics had suggested that infectious diseases would ever disappear from surface of the globe. But with the appearance of resistant strains (in Japan in the late 50s), then with the gradual generalization of this phenomenon, we had eventually disillusioned. Even to the point that we have come to speak of a true "crisis of antibiotics".
Overprescribing them (e.g. for viral diseases over which they have no effect), their misuse (for too short or too prolonged treatment), the presence of traces of antibiotics in the food chain, all this has contributed to the occurrence of microbial strains able to resist antibiotics. In addition, side effects of antibiotics weaken the immune system and often create new problems, such as mycobacterium infections (Candida albicans). Resistive germs can transmit this faculty to other germs through mechanisms of gene transfer. In addition, they move on vast geographical spaces and thus establish strongholds in parts of the globe.
Is it to say that we are heading for a disaster scenario in which microbes now invulnerable will decimate humanity? Pessimists believe that it is not impossible and some experts’ statements are hardly reassuring:
"I see no hope in the short term to get new antibiotics active ingredients, said Andre Klier, of the Institute Pasteur. Today any approval [new drugs] requires a very accurate description of the biological mechanisms involved, simple safety not enough to authorities...."
All these molecules are not expected in the coming ten years. Indeed, the development and commercialization of new drugs is an extremely long and costly operation, so the phenomenon of resistance seems to outpace scientists. According to a report from the American Pharmaceutical Association 3 the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is alarmingly.
For example, the Center for Control and Disease Prevention estimates that over the past five years, the resistance rates of Streptococcus pneumonia to penicillin has increased by over 300% and the resistance to cefotaxime by more than 1000%. With increasing strains of drug-resistant bacteria, there was an increase in mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases. In the United States, mortality from infectious diseases increased by 58
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