Hi and welcome, Kathy! I bet you'll get some info on CS, as well as a few other suggestions of how to help your son's body get over the acne problem.
The actual definition of "Colloidal Silver" in practice is a slippery thing. Those words have been applied to many products made in different ways and with different characteristics; everything from chemical precipitates to protein suspensions to concentrated silver salts have been named and mis-named as "CS." What we like to call CS would be: Pure silver in pure water with no additives. Not a silver salt or other compound. Modest concentrations of maybe 5 to 20 ppm. Usually mostly ionic, monoatomic or dissolved silver, with some particulate silver. Most often made by an electrolytic process. Usually clear, colorless, with a faint tyndall effect (that makes a laser beam shown through it visible). Water Oz is not forthcoming in saying exactly what their silver product is or how it's made. The analysis by other people I remember reading about pegged it as a silver salt. It is one commercial product that has been associated with several cases of argyria in people who used larger doses than are recommended by the manufacturer. If you haven't already heard of it, argyria is a blue/grey discoloration of the skin or other tissues which is cosmetically objectionable but appears to have no other health effect. In severe cases it is seriously disfiguring, although mild cases have been reported that did not seem to interfere with the person's normal activities. It was long thought to be irreversible, but at least a couple of approaches have been developed recently that, though difficult, produce satisfactory results. It is most likely to develop in people who a) ingest very large amounts of total silver, most often silver compounds, and b) are deficient in the minerals needed to handle excretion of metals. The body is normally very good at eliminating silver within days, unless those excretory pathways are overwhelmed by total quantity or inhibited by lack of essential minerals. Supplementing selenium and probably zinc and magnesium, will help assure their proper functioning. Obviously, you'd choose to avoid the problem altogether, so I would suggest not using more than the recommended dose of the product you have bought, and replacing it with a different, more appropriate preparation when it runs out. One bottle won't turn your son blue, but gallons of it may, under the wrong conditions. Okay, having thoroughly acquainted you with the only known potential downside, let's talk about the successful use of CS! <grin> Most of us make our own CS using generators we've bought or built ourselves. You will then know for sure what's in it and how it's made, not to mention saving a heck of a lot of money. When you consider the difference in price between commercial products and distilled water, the generator will pay for itself quickly. I'm sure folks will also mention other commercial brands for you to consider. A daily oral dose and spraying or rubbing it on topically have been reported to help quite a bit. Acne may not be entirely an issue of infection, though, and CS mostly works by killing germs, so you'll probably be drawn into a study of nutrition, supplementation, and other strategies to control the remaining factors that contribute to it. I wish you well, and welcome! Mike D. > Hi I am Kathy - I just subbed to your group. Hope to learn more about > CS. I am on a never ending quest to clear up my 13 yo son's acne, which > is mainly on his back but spreading. Recently I have started using clay > which helped a little but not much. Yesterday I bought a bottle of what > I thought was CS but now I am not sure... It says silver dietary > supplement. It is made by Water Oz. Is this the same thing? > > Kathy [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
