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A new study has just been released by Dr. Staninger on her findings stating the health hazards of using Colloidal Silver. Back in February of this year, Dr. Staninger had 2 new patients come under her care for Advanced Nano Material exposure, aka Morgellons. Their previous health care provider had prescribed the use of a popular name brand Colloidal Silver as a therapy to treat these patients for their exposure.

Many health care providers have used a colloidal silver or nano silver product for what they believe are beneficial health benefits for infections such as UTIs, decreasing bacterial loads, and other similar health concerns. There is a common belief that these products can do no harm because it will not accumulate in our tissues. These products will often cite the specific type of suspension they use to create their formulas as the reason why this form of silver is non-toxic.

Dr. Staninger states this is simply not true. She has already submitted this paper to the National Registry of Environmental Professionals and is published on www.hildegarde-staninger.com.

Here are a few excerpts, please read the entire article to get the full story:

“Many professionals and the public believe that colloidal silver materials will not show measurable levels of silver in biological specimens of urine and blood specimens as elemental silver. This paper addresses exposure to the internal ingestion of colloidal silver of two females and comparison values to two other females that did not ingest colloidal silver…

“Silver does not occur regularly in animals or human tissue. The major effect of excess absorption of silver is local or generalized impregnation of the tissues where it remains, as silver sulfide, which forms an insoluble complex in elastic fibers, resulting in argyria. Silver can be absorbed from the lungs and gastrointestinal tract. Complexes with serum albumin accumulated in the liver, from which a fractional amount is excreted. Intravenous injection produces accumulation in the spleen, liver, bone marrow, lungs, muscle, and skin. The major route of excretion is via the gastrointestinal tract. Urinary excretion has not been reported in some cases…

“Large oral doses of silver nitrate cause severe gastrointestinal irritation owing to its caustic action. Lesions of the kidneys and lungs and the possibility of arteriosclerosis have been attributed to both industrial and medical exposures. Large doses of colloidal silver administered intravenously to experimental animals produced death due to pulmonary edema and congestion. Hemolysis and resulting bone marrow hyperplasia have been reported. Chronic bronchitis has also been reported in results from medicinal use of colloidal silver.”

The issue she has reported is not just for individuals that suffer from the mysterious skin disease most popularly known as Morgellons. Contrary to popular belief within the alternative medical community, the tests published in her work disclose the fact that these silver remedies DO bio-accumulate in our tissues.

Generally speaking, the choice between using an antibiotic or using a Colloidal Silver product will still have me favor the silver products; but as Dr. Staninger has cautioned, follow the dosing from the manufacturer’s label and do not use for more than 10 days.

However, if you suspect exposure to the Advanced Nano Materials, aka Morgellons; then taking any silver supplement can cause intermediary reactions as reported in Dr. Staninger’s paper. This is a product that can have serious side effects no matter what the marketers want you to believe.

The Team at the Fountain of Wellness wishes you a very happy and healthy day.

About a week ago, several emails were shared across my desk discussing the ’side effects’ of using Nano silver or Colloidal silver products as a nutritional supplement or healing regime specifically with regard to Morgellons and exposure to advanced nano materials.

Colloidal Silver is widely known as an alternative to antibiotics and I have personally used it many times for cleaning up a urinary infection or staving off Strep Throat. It was very effective. However, you should not use it any other way than as is labeled by the manufacturer’s recommended dosing and for no more than 10 days.

Just like antibiotics, it does kill the good flora/fauna of your GI tract. That is it’s medicinal value- it is antibacterial.

The real caution that was stated by Dr. Staninger of Integrative Health Systems from this discussion was that if you are dealing with the Morgellons disease/syndrome, the last thing you want to ingest is a metal, including colodial gold, copper supplements, etc. The reason this is ill advised by Dr. Staninger is that based on her research and the 151 patients under her care that have/had Morgellons, every one of the specimens collected and analyzed was actually from the world of Nanotechnology!

I just read an interesting post from Dr. Mercola, who is another valuable source of wellness knowledge, discussing the issues around fabrics that are treated with NanoSilver to supposedly provide more protection from bacterium. The point is that during wash cycles the silver is washing out and therefore releasing into the water system.  YIKES!

In one of the journals on nanotechnology called ‘Small’ there are several studies reporting mortality rates and birth defects of fish that have come into contact with a nanosilver substance.

Dr. Mercola cites another study from 2006 on the risks of nano advanced sunscreens and the potential for brain damage. A big part of the technology behind ‘nano advanced’ is the size…so when a product is nano enhanced it is so small that it easily penetrates our skin, is undetectable to the naked eye, and at the top of the ‘we should be careful list’ is the fact that to date, there are no guidelines or regulations for the disposal of this technology.

It is very easy to flush down the drain or not even disclose as an aspect of manufacturing unless the product is being marketed for that particular quality. IE stain resistant, antibacterial, antimicrobial…are you ready for these…time released medicines, sunscreens, hydrogels, many cosmetics…

I had no idea this was nanotechnology! Want to know more, then pick up a copy of “Nanotechnology For Dummies”.

And go check this out: http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/

They have one of the best databases to reference what products are up and coming from the nanotechnology world.

So to wrap back around to using Nano and Colloidal Silver to ‘treat’ Morgellons, Dr. Staninger strongly advises against this because of the connection to patients being contaminated by materials that are nano-enhanced. The Silver will act as an antenna to amplify the nanotechs programming for self assembling and replicating. That’s right, she has analyzed and documented this very ‘quality’. She states that Morgellons is actually the contamination of our cells with nanotechnologies from our environment, foods, and medicines. Once an individual is exposed to enough combinations of many different toxins and nanos, we have provided an ideal environment for these hazardous materials to begin networking and assembling themselves together.

Sound like a bad Sci Fi flick…tell me about it! I still have specimens of my own that caused my own classic Morgellons symptoms of rash, pimples, intense itching and biting sensations, and overall fatigue and brain fog.

Nanotechnology is a fascinating new frontier, but it has already showed a dark side that  we must heed with great caution as we race for great new medicines and food sources.

Scientific American quotes University of Utah researcher Darin Furgeson, who led the Small journal study as saying:

“I think we jumped the gun” by creating such large volumes of nanoparticles. “We should take more time and really look at these new nano-systems before we start to throw them into personal products and shoot them into these ecosystems.”