The kill rate [by whatever means] has to be greater than the replication rate of the organizm to achieve control.
Since it takes direct contact for silver to kill, the more there is present the more likely it will contact a baddie.
A maintanence dose does not put much silver in place. It will bolster [help] the immune system but will not make it unnecessary.
You can still 'catch' things...if they replicate faster than a silver particle or ion finds them or a white cell surrounds them.
Something that replicates slowly is more likely to be controlled with maintanence dose levels than something that replicates fast simply because of contact odds.
By the time you have symptoms and start mega dosing on the silver to increase the odds, the organism is already well on it's way to a takeover and has already done some damage that needs to be cleaned out by elimination systems that can only work at a max rate.
Ie: your nose can be runny for several days after CS and the immune system kill all the organisms. The cold, or whatever, is dead and you'll feel better...but.
With a localized surface infection, direct contact with a lot of silver knocks it out very fast and elimination is by draining at the site.
In my experience..and everyone elses who has tried it..CS works GREAT on sties and will prevent anything from infecting a surface wound better than any ointment on the market...but it takes a little time and CS that dries up or washes away does nothing.
To knock out a sty, it takes repeated spraying or drops for several hours. A little spritzer bottle carried around and used every time the notion pops up works really well.
It takes a lot of silver to build up levels in the body enough to even out the odds of something knocking off a systemically distributed organism faster than it can replicate itself. Absorption/elimination rates play a big role there.
CS leaves almost as fast as you can get it in. Anything that enhances absorption will help. [Gatoraid, with CS mixed in and taken immediately before the chlorides can form? DMSO.]
Recently, my sisters [the ultimate skeptic] man friend was developing a boil on his arm. It had progressed to the point that reddish areas were traveling several inches up and down his arm [blood poisoning] and was getting pretty big but had not yet formed a pustule that could be lanced.
He refused to go to the Doc. [He's broke]
Last resort...wrapped the arm area up with thick gauze and kept it wet with home made CS and made him sip a double shot of CS every 15 minutes all day.
The next day the area looked like a small pimple.
Continued soaked bandage contact and sipping for the next day or so..no return.
Sister suitably impressed. [And no longer suffers from stomach problems that had plagued her for decades]
Ode
At 08:46 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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I thought I would share a silver success story with everyone, especially those who may be like me - overtly skeptical! After this, I'm almost 100% sold on the benefits of CS.<<<<
Ever since my daughter was three or four (she'll be 12 in January), she has had a problem with developing staph infections out of nowhere. She is a very healthy child, rarely even having a cold or flu, so it's a mystery why she continues to get them. They started out when she was younger with sties on her eyes. She would get what looked like a normal sty on her eyelid, which would then get huge and would emit green pus. This happened several times over a two year period with the doctor having me treat them topically with prescription soap, hot compresses, etc. It would clear them up - eventually - but they were VERY painful for her and it would sometimes take two to three weeks or more. She developed one inside her nose one summer that was just horrible. That was the last straw for me and I finally INSISTED they put her on an antibiotic to try to kill, what I felt, was a lingering bacteria in her system. I normally am not a fan of antibiotics, but I was desperate.
She went three or four years with no problems. Then last year about this same time, she developed a spot on her left hip that within a day or two had turned into a staph infection (verified by testing). It was REALLY deep down, so far down it wouldn't even drain. It was EXCRUCIATINGLY painful for her, keeping her up at night crying (and she does NOT cry easily). She was on 21 days of antibiotics to cure it, and it was so deep, it ended up leaving a scar.
Last week, she came to me with another of these strange infections popping up on her knee. She has been on a daily maintenance dose of silver for about four or five months. She said it was a little hot but didn't hurt. It looked sort of like a pimple, except for the tell-tale green/yellow pus. The pus was right up at the surface, and a little touch and it came right out. I immediately soaked a sterile gauze pad with CS and band-aided it onto her knee. Each time we changed the bandage, the infection had headed up at the surface, and a little touch would send the infection right out of it. We also upped her to 1/4-1/2 cup of CS a day in Gatorade in addition to the topical CS. She complained it was a little sore like a bruise, but it didn't really hurt unless she pushed on it. By day three, it was completely gone. Now she has a big, dry scab where the skin is dead from the infection. To get to that stage with her hip last year took 21 days of antibiotics . I don't even think this one will scar. AND NO ANTIBIOTICS!!
Of course, I'm telling myself that maybe it WASN'T the CS and it would have cleared up on its own - but I seriously doubt it. It was getting larger the first day we started the CS, and I think it would have continued to get worse and worse. I was really concerned about the infection getting into her knee joint. I had decided if the CS wasn't working by the second day, I would take her to the doctor. I even used a Sharpie and made dots around the margins of the infection to show where the redness ended and normal skin began. By the next day, the redness had reduced well inside the markings I had made.
I was a little perplexed as to why she developed one of these anyway since she is on a maintenance dose of CS. I have a theory, but I'm no expert. My theory is that these infections start topically, not from the inside out. Once the infection deepened enough to reach tissue or blood that had CS in it, it began to head up and extrude the infection. The topical CS I applied killed what was left at the surface. I'm sure there are people here with more expertise than myself who might confirm or refute such a theory.
In short, the CS:
1. Cleared up an infection in three days that, from past experience, usually takes not only much time but antibiotics to get rid of.
2. Significantly reduced the discomfort usually associated with these infections.
3. Saved us a visit to the doctor!!
HURRAY!
Just thought I'd share.
Be well,
Rene'
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