Dear Marshall, How is your foot laceration doing? -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Dudley <mdud...@execonn.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com <silver-list@eskimo.com> Date: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:03 PM Subject: Re: CS and injury
>rogalt...@aol.com wrote: > >Marshall: Sorry to hear about your severe laceration. Since your wound > >> was/is rather large, wouldn't it be a good idea to get the tetanus shot >> anyway. Suppose the CS does not come in contact with the entire wound then >> you would be betting on the systemic ability of CS to attack the remaining >> bacteria. According to Ivan's speculation, the window of CS's systemic >> viability is rather limited. Aren't you taking an inappropriate risk? Roger >> >> >> > >My wife has the same concerns. From all the stuff I have read recently on >vaccines, I am somewhat afraid of them. In the US only about 50 to 100 cases >of tetanus a year, so it is actually fairly rare. Death from a tetanus shot >appears to have a higher probability of death, and I suspect it would be made >totally ineffective anyway with the large amounts of CS I am taking. > >Also from http://www.babybag.com/articles/cdc_tetn.htm: >Tetanus toxoid can not act fast enough to give immunity to someone who has been >wounded, particularly for those who are not >completely vaccinated against tetanus. There is a substance called tetanus >immune globulin (TIG) which can provide immediate >immunity, and which may be given for tetanus- prone wounds. Questionable >injuries are best examined by local physicians or >health-care providers who are trained to evaluate wounds and recommend >treatment procedures. > >So according to this, it is really too late for a shot anyway. And tetnus when >not in the spore state is killed not only by CS, but by penicillin, which I am >grudgingly taking as well. > >Besides I dowsed on it, and got that I should not take the shot, that CS will >be all I need, and that although I do not need to take the penicillin, I won't >hurt to take it anyway. > >Thanks for your concern though, > >Marshall > > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
