What is Colloidal Silver or Ionic Silver.

What say we start with what is a colloid?

A Colloid is a solution that contains fine suspended particles.

Muddy water is a colloid. But like a lot of colloids when it is allowed to stand undisturbed the suspended particles deposit on the bottom of the container while the water above becomes clear.

The mud is large particles and settles out of the solution.

Fine particles in this example will remain in suspension and the water will remain discoloured for a much longer period. If this water is filtered then the water will become clear.

If you can imagine the size of those fine particles of mud You realize that we are talking about a measurement that is very small.

It is very likely that those mud particles were made up of more than one molecule of material or materials.

Now if we try to imagine the size of the particles if they just happened to be made up of single molecules.

Molecules are usually a compound of perhaps several atoms of minerals and gases.

Thinking about the size of a single atom is starting to get so small that we have difficulty describing the size of it at all. Science has measured the size of atoms and uses a special measurement scale. We can use the scale to compare the size of one against the size of another.

We don't need to go that deep in measuring but we need to understand that an atom of Silver is extremely small.

If we take atoms of silver and add them to water we have a Colloid. These atoms will not remain in suspension and the solution will need to be agitated to keep the atoms in suspension.

When I talk about Colloidal Silver, I mean electrically produced Colloidal Silver. I do not refer to an electrically produced colloidal silver in which Sodium Chloride(Salt) or any other material, has been added to activate the electrical process.

In the electrically produced Colloidal Silver I use, the water is demineralized or distilled water. Two Fine Silver, 999, not Sterling Silver or any other Silver, electrodes are suspended in the solution and a DC electrical source is connected to the electrodes.

The conductivity of the water is quite low. That means that only a small amount of electricity will flow in the water. When this current flows Ions of silver are formed and they become suspended in the water.

Now an atom was small. Well an ion of Silver is an atom of Silver minus an electron. In case you may have forgotten electrons flowing through conductive material is electricity. Anyway what we now have is a particle that is minutely smaller than an atom.

Because an Ion is an atom minus an electron it is a positively charged particle suspended in the water.

When there are many of these Ions suspended in the water they tend to repel each other if they get near. When the Colloidal Silver is made these repelling or bouncing particles remain in suspension. Because the ions repel each other they become evenly suspended throughout the colloid.

In scientific experiments ions can remain in suspension indefinitely. Exposure to magnetic or electromagnetic fields may supply an electron to the ions making Silver atoms that would settle out of the colloidal suspension. Exposure to sunlight and natural radiation may do the same. So our Colloidal Silver may have a useful lifespan. Under most circumstances we will use our colloids before the Ions precipitate.

What the heck if we make it ourselves the cost is so low that we can replace any that we are worried may become unusable. I estimate less than 50 cents per liter.

Generally when Colloidal Silver is made this way the colloid will be clear. It might have up to 10 parts per million of the silver ions. It seems that 10ppm appears to be a limit that may not be able to be exceeded.

I have made colloids that have coloured yellowish to smoky after excessive times. This colouring might be because oxygen and nitrogen have combined. I deliberately made colloids to this colour for soaking wound areas and for wound dressings.

I used the clear material for consumption purposes.

Other colloids of silver have been made using compounds of Silver and it was these compounds that were used prior to about 1939 when antibiotics were first introduced to mainline medicine. A side effect of the administration of these compounds was that many people had their skin turn blue.

This blue condition is a cosmetic effect and is in no way debilitating. Today there are still people offering suspensions of silver compounds for sale as Colloidal Silver. I would be vary wary of these materials. It is also known that, if the colloidal silver is started with salt, or if the water is not distilled, or demineralized that the user's skin may also turn blue.

I have been reading lately that bluing of the skin may be reversible.

Most Commercial supplies of Colloidal Silver seem to be in the range of from 5 to 10 ppm. I haven't read anything that might suggest that one is better than another.

No one should make any claim that Colloidal Silver has any Medicinal Qualities but The FDA has approved Colloidal Silver for use commercially as a disinfectant. Silver is now used in wound dressings bandages and as a deodorant.

Wishing you all the best.
Reg

The author Reg Whelan has a site offering you training to add a residual income to your budget.

Firstly let me tell you a little about electrically produced Colloidal Silver.

Colloidal silver is a suspension of silver ions in water. Silver Ions are atoms of Silver minus one electron.

When Colloidal silver evaporates. The silver ions combine with oxygen making silver oxide. When silver oxide is dissolved in water it separates the silver ions from the oxygen and makes colloidal silver again.

Now to go back to the start of my story. My late wife Lyn suffered from diabetes and an annual toxic break out resulting from a spider bite. Likely this was a white tail spider. The treatment for these toxic break outs was debridement and massive doses of end of the line antibiotics.

Lyn had come home from hospital and I had been dressing her wounds. I felt that the condition of the wounds was deteriorating and I made arrangements for her to go to the Dr's surgery with her sister.

Lyn came home with 14 days worth of ethremiacine(spell) antibiotic. This is a very mild and old form of antibiotic and I believed that there should be some more up to date antibiotics that would be much more effective. When that supply was exhausted I went to the surgery with her to find out why they only gave her that antibiotic.

I found out that they were unable to give her any of the stronger antibiotics because her heart was so weak that the stronger antibiotics would kill her faster than the bacteria would.

At that time I was also concerned about the fluid build up that was forcing its way out of her legs and forming yellow blisters. I had made an appointment for Lyn to visit her rehabilitation specialist at the hospital.

This time I went into the specialist's office with her. He asked what he could do for us. Lyn didn't answer so I told him that I would like to see her diuretic increased to reduce her fluid level. He asked what I meant. I explained the blistering on her legs and that was why we needed a higher dose of the diuretics.

The specialist asked me what the blisters were. Now I was a bit naive back then and I told him it was the fluid breaking out like I had been told. He went on to explain that because Lyn's heart was so weak it could not pump the blood supply through her immune system to remove the toxins from her blood stream. The toxins were killing cells and the yellow liquid wasn't fluid but it was the fluid caused by the toxins in breaking down the cells.

Still being naive I was relieved and said. If that's all it is I can fix that. He asked me how I could fix it. I told him I would make some colloidal silver and Lyn could take it internally and that would kill the bacteria that were causing the blistering.

He obviously didn't want her to go home. Lyn argued that she wasn't ready to go back into hospital and the Specialist allowed us to go home on the condition that we presented at the hospital three times a week for blood tests and monitoring.

Now I will fast forward to a time when I wasn't as naive as I had been any longer.

It turns out that Lyn had been allowed out of hospital to come home and spend her last days away from the hospital.

I had a fine silver supply and a scientific 12 volt supply supply. I went out and bought some demineralized water. The only alternative water I could have used was distilled water. I didn't have the means to distill water and I couldn't buy any of that.

I used the colloidal silver to soak the wounds on her feet and to flush a debrided bed sore. I dressed the wounds with a seaweed wool(sorbisan) whetted down with the colloidal silver. I also gave her a small amount of the colloidal silver to consume internally.

I found out why I had to administer the Colloidal Silver by the teaspoon full. Lyn's urine turned to a thick brown sludge around the second day. This was the dead bacteria being filtered out of the blood stream. Any more of the Colloidal Silver would have added too much of a load on her immune system.

After some weeks the specialist called us to his office and told us that we had succeeded in cleaning the blood poisoning and her bloods now showed very good results.

Lyn was to die some nine months later from other complications associated with the diabetes and the accelerated breakdown of her immune system from the massive doses of end of the line antibiotics.

To be continued.
Reg.

The author Reg Whelan has a site offering you training to add a residual income to your budget.

Now where was I? Ah. I didn't mention it but I was very very angry about what seemed to me to be a lack of interest in curing or helping diabetics. What struck me as most absurd was the fact that our hospital system was simply cleaning diabetic ulcers and doing fresh dressings.

Here are the professional health care workers Telling us that diabetes sufferers have a breakdown of the capillary action in the extremeties. A course of antibiotics is given by injection or orally. Now these antibiotics can only attack and control bacteria that is in the blood system. A very very little amount of that antibiotic actually reaching the wound area.

OK! Perhaps this fact was taken into account when the surgeons debride the wounds and cutting beyond the infected area. This then could allow the antibiotics and the bodies immune system to heal the area.

This is really a hit and miss situation depending on lots of variables the most important, did they cut away sufficient material all the way around the infection.

At this stage I had proved that there was a way of cleansing the blood stream without the need for debridement and without the use of the dangerous antibiotics. I started then to go on line and focus on getting the system modified. I had already posted progress reports and pictures online and I had done a lot of research that I had prepared and presented to Lyn's specialist along with a battery operated generator that I made.

An important point of history here is that until 1939 when penicillin(spell) was discovered Silver compounds were used as antibiotics. Now as well as curing infections these silver compounds had a tendency to cause a cosmetic change in the skin turning it blue. Back then turning blue was preferable to being dead. Calculations have been done from dr's records. They show that a considerable quantity of Silver compound was necessary to cause this to happen. Further calculations from this figure show that approximately 8 grams of silver were needed before patients turned blue.

I know of no research figures that show how many people have their immune systems dangerously compromised by the excessive use of current antibiotics. With all the super bugs developing and over the last years it only took a bit over 20 years to develop a new antibiotic. It takes the survivors of a fourteen day antibiotic course mere days to build a new colony with immunity. How long is it going to take to produce the next antibiotic? How many lives will be lost before then?

Hey this is me. I'm back.

Realizing that there was obviously more that could be done for diabetics. Using an antimicrobial dressing for treating and dressing diabetic ulcers was an obvious start.

I posted a report on every anti-quack site I could find. I reported what i had found and asked the question just who are the quacks me or them? Additionally I sent similar information to current affairs and news programs. I suggested that since silver is a low cost metal in ample supply around the world. I suggested that research should be done to make a machine that could produce a quantified strength of Colloidal Silver. This could be done at a reasonably low cost.

You would never guess but I never received so much as a single reply.

Shortly before this time came the invention of Silver Bandages. I think these are something akin to a rayon mesh with bonded noncrystalline Silver. Silverlon? was the first of these products. Acticoat was a similar product with an absorbent pad between layers of the Silver mesh. This was made by a mainline medical supplier. I obtained some of this material and trialed it on some of Lyn's wounds. I found that because the mesh and pad combination didn't have enough flexibility to conform to the surface of the wounds. I resorted to packing the wounds with sorbisan and wetting that periodically with the Colloidal Silver.

Before this time The US FDA had gone out of its way to ban Colloidal Silver as a food supplement or medication. There was only one person allowed to give evidence about the effects of Silver and that was someone whose blue condition was caused by a silver compound before those were phased out. There was absolutely no evidence allowed regarding electrically formed colloidal silver. This is quite typical of government departments forming legislation based on the lobbyist methods in use today. And we have people out here wanting to change from Westminster to Republican government. Crazy.

About the time I was treating Lyn the FDA approved the use of Colloidal Silver as a disinfectant. Great they admitted the antimicrobial benefits of Colloidal silver. How many of you have used disinfectants in conjunction with the human body. Nearly everyone uses a disinfecting mouth wash. Detol as a wound gravel rash cleaner. Any way enough of that.

While I was posting on the forums I did receive a number of emails from people claiming to be doctors asking about my wound management system. I also had emails from partners describing their partners symptoms. The first thing that was obvious to me was that these people had serious circulation problems. I made it my policy to advise them to have a doctor examine their circulation system. Usually I was told that that they were on heart medication already. OK! so they knew that already and I didn't have to tell them. It was only after that that I would go into details about the wound management.

I distinctly remember forming the opinion that I was being quizzed in some way as some of the emails seemed to ask a series of successive questions. (Its Relevant for the next issue.) I was often asked why I didn't patent my ideas. Well mostly I was using information I researched from others and combined. Additionally as a social liability pensioner I would never be able to afford a patent and nor could I research a bedside production unit.

In the next episode I will expand on the use of Colloidal Silver with my daughter and her ordeal with Lower Rectal Cancer and super bugs and diabetes all over again. This will further document the advanced use of silver into mainline medicine.

I hope I haven't bored you to death yet. (Cont.)
Reg

The author Reg Whelan has a site offering you training to add a residual income to your budget.

I think there was an Australian Politician who uttered, " Life wasn't meant to be cheesy" or something similar. Within a few months of her mother's death my daughter, Cathy, was diagnosed with Lower Rectal Cancer.

Now Cathy is another diabetic and has been on insulin injections since she was about 18.

Have I mentioned before that because of the sugar levels of diabetics their blood becomes an ideal environment for bacteria to breed, and breed rapidly. I don't think I did.

Cathy was eventually diagnosed with this cancer condition privately after the Public System had sent her home and told her to eat more oranges. This was after her GP had detected that a lump existed that needed to be examined re continual annal discharge. I'm not very impressed.

I think because she was only 27 they decided she was too young to have bowel cancer and they could save costs by gambling that it wasn't cancer and send her home. As it turned out they were very wrong. Cathy had a very aggressive form of cancer and by the time of radiation it had grown to about 3 1/4 inches in size.

This cancer blocked her up to the point she was in Intensive care on special watch to monitor for any bursting of her insides. This was relieved with a stent that worked out within weeks as she waited for radiation.

Cathy went in and had radiation and an eliostomy(spell). A fissure was created in the uterus and the wall of the bladder was burned dangerously thin. So Thin that it was later to rupture.

As the years (spent more in hospital than out) went by Cathy was to be opened up and drained so many times I've managed to forget just how many. This opening was from the sternum to the Caeserian line. Whenever she was allowed home and even while she was in hospital I dressed this stapled wound with Colloidal Silver and Sorbisan. Unfortunately The feces's bag had burst and the then undressed or dry dressed wound was covered with feces. The wound became infected before I could do any cleansing and dressing. Also because of the internal infection the wound may have been infected anyway.

No sooner would I have the wound healed then she would be back in theater and they were cutting it open again. Talk about frustrating.

Now they eventually managed to control the internal gangrene and they tried to reconnect the bowel to the anus. There wasn't enough bowel left and she had to have a colostomy bag. I'm not sure if they did a muscle graft to close the anus at that time or later. Anyway a strip of muscle from the inner thigh was was left attached at the groin and fed internally to be grafted over the opening.

This of course became infected. The graft and the flesh around the anus began to decay The medical profession did all that they could to try and control the infection. This included hyperbaric dives. But they ran out of options. Cathy was being taken into the shower and the wound was flushed and cleansed before returning to bed to have a dressing done. As you might imagine I was unable to do this dressing. And nor could I see what was happening with the wounds.

Cathy overheard a discussion that suggested they were about to stop the hyperbaric dives as they weren't having any result.

I happened to be at the hospital, accidentally on purpose, when the Professor in charge of wound management came in with a team of other Doctors to examine the lack of progress(read regression) of their treatments. When they were about to leave I excused myself and told the professor that I was Cathy's father and reminded him about her mothers wounds. I asked if I could have the nursing staff dress the wounds my way. He agreed almost instantly and I asked him if he would ensure that it was recorded that I could instruct the nursing staff on how to do the dressing.

I wrote instructions in a step be step form and printed them on an A4/letter sheet for the staff to read and follow. Now this was a total break from procedure and those instruction sheets disappeared so rapidly I was forced to do another printing to ensure that I had some for the staff actually doing the dressings.

I stopped the decay in 24 hrs and in 48 hrs there was evidence of re-granulation. The team in hyperbarics recognized the changes immediately and now instead of not wasting time documenting the decay, they began a series of digital photos to document the recovery. The Dr. in charge of the hyperbaric team was a little more savvy about hospital supplies than the professor and his team. They requisitioned a product AquacelAg. Once they had it they changed the instruction and refused to use the sorbisan and colloidal silver dressings. They did however flush and clean the wound with the colloidal silver I had supplied instead of using the normal saline solution usually used in hospitals to flush and clean wounds.

I researched the AcquacelAg. The information I could find suggested to me that the Aquacel was an upgrade on the Sorbisan that I used. It absorbed fluid discharge faster than the sorbisan did. The AquacelAg was a smokey gray colour compared to the lighter coloured Aquacel. The claim for the dressing is that bacteria coming into contact with silver would be killed. From everything I could find I have to assume that Silver Oxide is added to the Aquacel formula to make the AquacelAg. What the heck. They were now doing the same thing as I was whether they liked it or not.

The absorbed fluids dissolved the Silver Oxide and allowed the Silver Ions to disperse evenly throughout the fluids in the dressing and in immediate contact with the wound surface.

At first I was extremely wary and when I had done my research I had to Laugh. I also remembered the series of questioning emails that had put me through the third degree. I have achieved what I set out to achieve, a better deal for diabetics every where.

Apparently I used to talk in my sleep. Lyn would ask me questions and I would answer her. When she tried to ask anything that wasn't general knowledge I would go he he and clam up completely. I do have the ability to recognize a series of questions :LOL. Hey they were now spending $100 for a box of dressings where a box of the sorbisan was costing $10.

Some of the properties of the Colloidal Silver that I haven't mentioned:
Wounds dressed with the colloidal silver do not grow scar tissue and it doesn't cause keloid scarring.
The healing rate is promoted.
The re-ganulation that forms also forms capillary vessels.
It produces and analgesic effect reducing the patient's discomfort.

By the way Cathy has had continued infection and has lost half her foot. Due to a lack of circulation. She has had a bypass in one leg and a stent in the other to restore circulation to her feet. I have managed to stop the infection in her foot and avoided further removal.

She has a leg bag to collect urine as well as the colostomy bag now. She came home from hospital on Tuesday evening so my new partner Lyn and I have been relieved from baby sitting duties. I found out that there is some bug in the bladder that causes outbreaks of blood poisoning at regular intervals and she returns to hospital. Now that I know where the problem is I will work out what I can do about it. That should then relieve the necessary antibiotic courses and the additional loading on the immune system that it causes.

All this is a priority I have to cope with. It often takes me away from other work I should be doing. Also by now I should have been to Western Australia.

OK! I'm done. The end.
Hope all this writing is of use to someone out there.
Reg

The author Reg Whelan has a site offering you training to add a residual income to your budget.

"Silver preparations can lead to Argyria, a condition in which silver salts deposit in the skin, eyes, and internal organs, and may turn the skin ashen-gray" .

The modern colloidal silver is more often than not electrically produced Ionic colloidal silver.

Any recent reported instances of argyria from the use of colloidal silver are from colloids made from silver salts or from electrically produced colloidal silver started with salt and one from creek water in a rural area contaminated by fertilizers and animal urine etc.

The FDA approved colloidal silver for use as a disinfectant.

There is a Mainline wound dressing, AquacelAg, This appears to be a standard soluble wool product to which Silver Oxide has been added. It appeared on the market shortly after I proposed the use of Sorbisan soaked in Colloidal Silver.

I expect that what happens when AquacelAg is used in a wound is that the wound fluids start to dissolve the dressing. Silver Oxide is transferred into a water based fluid. The silver and oxygen separate as it does on being dissolved in water. This then becomes Ionic Silver separated from its oxygen.

The same then as my original use of Sorbisan and Electrically produced Ionic Silver.

Ah but that cant be. The FDA has decided that Colloidal silver can't be promoted as having medicinal properties.

You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Why did the FDA take it's stand on Colloidal Silver made from silver salts and then apply it to Electrically produced Ionic colloidal silver.

Nah it can't possibly be to restrict usage to big pharma....

The author Reg Whelan has a site offering you training to add a residual income to your budget.