Gina Gomes wrote:
I'm waiting for someone to explain to me what causes Agryia and what
are the known ways to reverse it.
As most people know, silver is used as the photo-sensitive ingredient in
almost all photographic processes. Silver compounds, when exposed to
light, will often result in the silver being reduced to atomic or
metallic silver. Then in the presence of a developer, any silver
compounds that contact the silver particles will also undergo a
reduction reaction, enlarging the silver particle.
While this process is essential to photography, it is undesirable in the
skin of a person. It is thought by many that the reason that the royalty
long ago were called blue bloods is because the silver from the goblets
and wares would react with acids in their drinks and foods, then
precipitate out in their skin giving them a bluish color. It is known
that consumption of silver compounds, such as silver nitrate, followed
by exposure to sunlight can result in a graying or bluing of the skin, a
medical condition called argyria (2). As it turns out, a number of
chemicals that can appear in the blood make quite effective developers.
Caffeine and tannin are just two of them (3).
Fortunately, colloidal silver, when made by the electrolytic process in
pure distilled water without any salts being added, produces no silver
salts. Thus, silver plating out of colloidal silver is not possible; the
silver particles are already reduced to pure silver, and are mutually
repulsed, because of their positive charges.
Silver salts do and can cause argyria, that is not in
dispute. The physics is well known and is experienced by everyone as
the standard photographic process. Silver
salts when exposed to light gain an electron producing a silver atom.
Then the silver atom (known as the latent
image in film), will grow when exposed to additional silver salts and a
developer in an alkaline solution (known as
development in photography). When the silver particles grow
sufficiently, they will begin absorbing light and causing
a darkening of the area, whether in a photographic print, or the skin of
an animal. It is impossible to make a
photograph using silver particles to start with, that is the end result
(and if you leave a dark photo which is dark
because it has particles in the emulsion in the light over time it will
tend to fade, not darken). Likewise it is
impossible to cause argyria using colloidal silver which IS silver
particles already. Silver compounds and silver
colloid have nothing in common as far as argyria is concerned, and
despite what many claim colloidal silver does not
only not cause argyria, it can be an effective prophylactic against
argyria. That is if colloidal silver is taken with silver
salts there will be a reduced likelihood of argyria from the salts. The
following reference (5) uses IES to
mean Electrolytically Isolated Silver, which is a combination of both
colloidal silver and ionic silver that
What happens when you take silver compounds.
A silver compound will typically become silver chloride as soon as it hits
the stomach. The silver chloride
is sparingly soluble, about .8 ppm. The dissolved silver chloride will move
into the blood stream and once there will be exposed
to chemicals that will induce the silver to plate out on any other silver
particles present. However initially there will be no other
silver particles present, so the silver chloride circulates in the blood
until exposed to light in the skin, where they are photo
reduced to silver atoms. This is the photographic process that occurs when
you take a picture (with a film camera). Once the silver atoms are produced
in the skin, then the rest of the silver chloride will begin reducing onto
those particles making them grow very fast, and resulting in many of them
getting stuck in the skin. Since the particles are so small, they will
appear as black or blue, giving the skin a bluish cast. This is called
argyria, and can result from taking silver compounds without any colloidal
component.
If it were 't for my e-mail friend who told me to do research before
taking colloidal silver, I would not have known there was such a thing.
Everyone here is aware that silver salts can cause argyria. We are
normally only concerned with it when newcomers come in and are taking
are making silver salts.
As long as someone does not explain this, then I am being kept in the
dark and then when my skin turns grey who do I blame?
If one is concerned, they should watch themselves closely in the
mirror. Also they should take sufficient quantities of selenium and
vitamin E both of which have evidence as a prophylactic.
So is agryia really superficial?
It is cosmetic. Some might consider that superficial, and some might not.
Marshall
*/argyriavic...@aol.com/* wrote:
In a message dated 2/4/2007 12:11:16 P.M. Central Standard Time,
itisi...@cox.net writes:
Therefore your above statement says very clearly that you are
looking for
money rather than any assistance with your claimed argyria
problem.
Good luck to you. Blue and green has long been my favorite
color combination.
Money will help me afford the laser surgery to help my problem. I
made a statement similar to yours once before. I stated that
because of my blue eyes the blue coloring will look ok. Boy was I
wrong and did I get showed differently.
Plus there are not people here that can help me. They caused the
harm to begin with and none of those tactics they suggest work and
they know it. When people come here for help all you folks do is
bash them. Your more concerned with how much, what kind and how
long than helping someone with their problem. Because everyone
knows Argyria is permanent.
*ArgyriaVictim
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Argyria/*
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