Hi Everybody,
I don't look blue to myself, but some people tell me that I look blue to them, and this is becoming annoying. I do make the 10 to 20ppm, ionic silver, and drink this, however I have little doubt that this would not cause the blueness. After all, it's in solution, and the body eliminates this. I'd appreciate any observations. I'm still not convinced that this couldn' just as well be redness, and that people think it to be blue because they've heard about argyria. Or I suppose that it could be cyanosis, which apparently has something to do with de-oxygenated blood, close to the surface of the skin. If I am turning blue, I'm supposing that this could also have been caused by a couple of factors. 1. For about ten years I've been teaching workers in potteries, around the world, to manufacture their own silver nitrate, using very pure silver and nitric acid. This makes AgNO3 very inexpensive, by comparison to the commercial product, but clearly requires safety precautions. In the beginning, especially, I was making occasional contact with the silver salts, turning my skin black. After five days or so, the blackness would peel off. 2. Three or four times a year I travel to the so-called third world, and put drops of Mexican-made, concentrated CS into drinking water, to help with viruses, Montezuma's revenge, etc. A friend has told me that the coloration is sometimes more noticeable and sometimes less so. I understand that there is chelation, to make such color go away, but I know little about this. And doesn't argyria tend to make the coloration splotchy? Any thoughts anyone? Reid _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile1_042009
