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Skeptical about colloidal silver? I was. Then I read about nurses in England demanding that their hospital allow them to use silver-impregnated dressings for multi-drug resistant staph (MDRS) infections. I can no longer find that article, but no matter. There is a new article in nursingtimes.net from October 14, 2008, that now worries about the overuse of silver… mostly for cost reasons. Nurses are now using silver products so much in their normal care of burns that some people are concerned about the ‘huge amounts’ that patients are being treated with.

So the fact that they are in official use in hospitals is 100% documented. The fact that they are effective is 100% documented. “There is a wealth of evidence supporting the use of antimicrobial silver-based products“, they say in the article. “We know silver has an antimicrobial effect and it is particularly effective in treating pseudomonas.” And this is from institutional people who really prefer the old ways.

Does colloidal silver work for me? (more…)