I'm really surprised there are no other reviews about this product. Colloidal Silver is a wonderful all natural anti-biotic, and with concerns about H1N1 virus, prescription anti-biotics losing effectiveness, and just normal cold and flu season around the country it is important to protect yourself and your family.
First, a little history about Colloidal Silver and why I started using it. I'm not going to claim that pioneers used to drop a silver coin in milk to make it last longer or the reason the Greeks used silver cups was because they understood the health benefits of silver. They may have but as an avid reader, especially U.S. History I have never found a reference to that. I do know silver was used heavily as an anti-biotic until penicillin hit the market. Silver proved to be effective at fighting both bacterial and viral infections. If interested, I would highly suggest reading Silver Colloids Do they Work? By Ronald J. Gibbs. He was the foremost authority on Silver Colloids and the book can be found for free online in PDF form... just google it.
Now I found colloidal silver because of my son. Every late October or early November he would get a stuffed up, runny nose which would cause him to have coughing fits during the night that would last about an hour. This would last until February or March. We took him to his doctor and after a cursory examination the doctor prescribed Singulair. That worked for about two weeks. Then he prescribed Flonase. It was his comment after he prescribed Flonase that got me thinking. He said "If Flonase doesn't work we will try Nasonex (I believe that was the name, we never got that prescription). The Flonase didn't work either. During the use of Flonase we went to see an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist. He looked up his nose; looked at his eyes and prescribed yet another nasal spray. By this time I had enough. The doctor and the ENT thought it may be a sinus infection. So I did what so many people do today... I googled "cures for sinus infections". I saw websites promoting ACV - Apple Cidar Vinegar... um no. It may work very well but can you imagine trying to convince a young child to drink a tablespoon or two of that stuff? Yuck! I found other home cures but they really didn't have anything to back up their claims other than testimonials. Then I found a website that published articles from the Colloidal Silver Laboratories and also had the book Silver Colloids Do They Work?. I spent days reading through all the publications on this website and reading Gibbs' book. I spoke with my wife about it and we decided to give it a try. My biggest regret is that I did not buy the site recommended product MesoSilver first.
I buy Korean Ginseng and some other products from a local health food store where I trust the owner, so when I was there I asked if they carried any Colloidal Silver. He handed me a bottle from TriMedica SilvaSolution. TriMedica comes in 10ppm(parts per million) and 50ppm. Their product also has other ingredients for cold and flu relief. The cold and flu relief ingredients in TriMedica work great. I would take it when I first started getting a running nose or a sore throat and within 15 minutes I would be feeling better. For my son we would give him a dose right before going to bed and he would sleep for a good four or five hours, and then the first time he coughed I would give him another dose and he would sleep the rest of the night. Finally, we got through a winter and were able to get a good night's sleep (something that had not happened the previous three winters) But I didn't feel the colloidal silver portion of the TriMedica was destroying the virus. Depending on the severity of the cold we would take it like penicillin... three or four times a day for seven to 10 days. But for a year everyone in the family would take it at the first sign of a cold, flu, or sinus probnlem and we all stayed healthy. No missed work or school for illness.
I then noticed my health food store started caryring an additional brand by SilverBiotics. I researched the company and they seemed legitimate so we tried their product. I still have the bottle and take it once in a while to save the good stuff (MesoSilver) for the kids. It seems to work but you have to take a lot... one to two tablespoons three or four times for a day. Still better than the alternative of prescription medicine. Recently though, I was writing a paper for my English Comp class (yes, I'm an old man trying to earn my degree after all these years). I wrote the paper on the benefits of Colloidal Silver. Part of my research and citation was from Gibbs' book and some of the publications from the CSL site. After writing the paper and the research I thought I would order a bottle of MesoSilver and compare to what we were using. And there is a big difference.
What has motivated me to write tonight is the effect the MesoSilver has had on my son. As mentioned before at this time of year we would be a couple of weeks into miserable nights or at the least making sure we wake up to give him another dose when he coughed. At the first sign of a runny, stuffed up nose I gave my son 1-1/2 teaspoons of MesoSilver... it went away. That was two weeks ago. Yesterday he had a slight runny nose when he woke up. I gave him a dose before he went to school and another before bed. Today, there was no sign of a runny nose, even though when I dropped him off at school half the kids in his class were coughing or wiping noses. More important, he has not coughed once during the night. Also, on Sunday I started to get a sore throat so I took one tablespoon and the sore throat was gone in about an hour. MesoSilver seems to really kill the bacteria or viral infection. I almost wish I would get a really bad cold so I can really test it.
Now a word of caution. There are a ton of companies/people selling Silver products. Some will claim that Colloidal Silver has to be clear to be a true colloid. Some will claim it has to be amber colored, some will claim you don't need more than 10ppm. Some will claim they have over 100ppm. Do the research. The two most effective Colloidal Silver products I have used is Trimedica's 50ppm (which is clear) and MesoSilver 20ppm (which is amber). If you don't feel comfortable buying from the internet go to a health food store. But even there be careful... if they have five or six different brands then they are just selling product and not necessarily selling products that work. If they carry just one or two brands it is probably something the owner uses him/herself. And then on the other end of the spectrum you will find a lot of sites that absolutely bash the use of Colloidal Silver. They talk about how it's unsafe and no scientific studies to prove it's effective, not FDA approved. I want to talk about each one individually. FDA Approval. It costs millions of dollars in tests and paperwork to get a product approved by the FDA. Since Colloidal Silver is not a patentable product no one company wants to plop down that money for the benefit of all colloidal manufacturers. I don't blame them. I wish they would, but it's not my money. Yet the FDA has approved Silver and Silver Nitrate. Silver balm is used in the majority of burn centers in the US. On the no scientific studies. I guess they mean published in the American Medical Journal because there are a lot of studies including it's effectiveness on HIV and AIDS. Now safety, this one really blows my mind. During your research you will see the term argyria. Argyria is a permanent condition which causes a blue or blue grey discoloriation of the skin. It can be severe like in the case of "The Blue Man" Paul Karas or of Stan Jones a political candidate from the state of Montana(I think). There are no other adverse effects of argyria but there doesn't need to be... no one wants to be blue for the rest of their life. A site that comes up often when researching Colloidal Silver is Quackwatch. On there they list all the reported cases of silver ingested argyria. You can read about all 11 of them. That's right...11 in a five year period. Many of those cases (including Paul Karas and Stan Jones) made their own silver solution (not recommended, I explain below) and drank as much as a quart or more per day. But even that is beside the point for now. These same people that claim Colloidal Silver is not safe instruct people to stick with the "safe" prescriptions like Amoxicillin. Yet 400 people a year die from Penicillin/Amoxicillin. So let's see 400 people die a year compared to 11 cases of people turning blue in five years. Which one is more safe?
This kind of leads me to my last statement. You will also see websites that will sell you equipment to make your own silver. I would highly recommend against this. First, you are not making a Silver Colloid you are making Ionic silver which is not as beneficial. There is no way to get silver particles using these machines. Second, you need very high grade silver and very pure water. As a plumbing engineer I can tell you the water purifies they sell at Home Depot are not going to get your water pure enough. Third, it's just not worth the risk of getting a bad shipment of silver wire. Also be sure if you do by Colloidal Silver you are buying Colloidal Silver and not Silver Ions or Silver Proteins.
There is a lot of information here, I know and I apologize. Brevity is not one of my strengrths. And if you research Colloidal Silver properly there will be a lot more information for you.
I think it's important to know a little about the reviewer. I post reviews on epinions.com because I believe in the idea of consumers letting other consumers know about their experiences. Look through some of my other reviews you will see I review only products I have used and usually only those products in which I have a positive experience. I think this is only my ninth or 10th review in three years, so I don't do this often.
If you are looking for an alternative to prescriptions or over-the-counter medications that just mask the symptons until your body heals itself; I cannot think of a better product than Colloidal Silver. MesoSilver is the best Colloidal Silver I have used. It works quickly. It has no side effects (permanent or temporary like feeling light headed or sleepy), you body does not build up resistance to Colloidal Silver. It has an indefinite shelf life and does not need refigeration.
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