Unless there has been a sudden reversal of policy, most modern practice is to run a bead of optical Tetracycline cream across each eyeball shortly after birth. They may have switched to another antibiotic.
I suppose that Silver Nitrate may be used in impoverished areas of the world because it costs so much less. I think that one drop was placed in the inner canthus. I do not recall the concentration. It stings, and the Tetracycline does not. JOH -----Original Message----- From: Stuff [mailto:st...@laguna.com.mx] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:28 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Re: finger method cs generation At 08:32 AM 4/9/2004 -0500, Garnet wrote: >The lethal dose of Silver Nitrate in mice is 50 mg/kg. In humans the >lethal dose of Silver salts is 1 gram. So yes there are risks for those >who do not educate themselves and exercise due caution in their set up. And yet it's used for *external* application... "Most doctors treat newborns with silver nitrate or other medicine to keep them from getting gonorrhea in the eyes, which can cause blindness. " http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/factsheets/std.htm What is NOT mentioned here is that it's applied to the eyes [a doctor told me] in some fashion that I'm not particularly aware of...on the eyeball or what? stuff -- 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: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
