Introduction
A great deal of misinformation exists on the use of silver products causing
one's skin to turn blue or gray. Only the extreme misuse of very
strong silver solutions has caused this condition which is known
as Argyria. The extreme misuse of any substance can cause harm or
even death to a person. If a child were to eat a bottle of children's
vitamins, the child would most likely suffer serious side affects.
In contrast, if a child were to accidentally drink an entire eight
ounce bottle of American Biotech Labs' 10 ppm silver product, he
or she would suffer no ill affects at all. This article will discuss,
in detail, the following information regarding silver:
- Historical usage of silver solutions
- What is Argyria?
- Independent safety tests backing American Biotech Labs' products
- Government safety data on silver (how much silver the US government
deems safe for daily usage)
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Historical Misinformation Regarding Silver
As numerous problems with the use of prescription
antibiotics have arisen, people searching for a safe solution,
have resurrected the use of silver products as an antibiotic
alternative. However, some people using and selling the
silver products have made false claims with no data back-up.
Often times claims came only from anecdotal evidence. Because
of the non-existence of test data, these products were
and are shunned by many health professionals. It is also
unfortunate that most health professionals have no real
knowledge of silver. This lack of knowledge may cause them
to relay incorrect information to patients. As with any
new technology, the medical community seems to be pitifully
slow at grasping the new concepts. It is interesting to
note that there are 83 silver products currently registered
and in use by the medical industry.
We, as consumers, are finally being warned that antibiotics are overused
and now becoming ineffective. All evidence from many independent laboratories
indicates that silver is a viable, safe antibiotic alternative. However,
many doctors dismiss this option by continuing the myth that the use
of silver will cause the patient to turn blue or can cause toxic build-up.
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What Is Argyria?
Argyria is a non-toxic condition caused by the
extreme misuse of very strong silver products. When huge
amounts of silver are consumed over time and the body is
unable to excrete the silver through both the urine and
the fecal tracts the body may slough off the excess silver
into the skin cells to get rid of it. This condition is
known as argyria. Argyria has no known side effects except
that it causes a graying of the skin color. The condition
is only cosmetic in nature. In most cases the discoloration
is permanent. Argyria has never been reported with the
use of low part-per-million, non-salt related silver products.
In fact, because so many silver products are being used
nationwide, the US EPA issued a RFD or (daily intake limit)
level of silver that could be safely consumed every day
for a person's entire life. The EPA RFD, issued in 1991,
is discussed in detail later in this report.
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What Silver Products Causes Argyria?
The US Federal Register listed the silver products
that cause argyria as silver salts, including; silver nitrate,
silver arsphenamine, silver chloride and possibly silver
iodide. These products were sold until about 1975 under
various labels consisting of silver solutions ranging from
5-30% silver [50,000-300,000 ppm (parts per million) of
silver] (Federal Register, FDA-21CFR Part 310, pg. 53685).
In comparison American Biotech Labs silver supplement products
are only 10 ppm and 22 ppm. American Biotech Labs' EPA
approved hospital/home surface disinfectant is only 32 ppm.
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Silver Salts Are Not Colloidal Silver
Silver Salts have been mistakenly called colloidal
silver products by some misguided individuals. By definition,
the word colloidal means a system in which particles larger
than molecules in size (in this case retaining their metallic
identity) of one substance are suspended throughout the
second substance. In the case of American Biotech Labs'
silver product, finite particles of metallic silver are
suspended within highly purified water. Silver salts readily
dissolve in water, and therefore are not colloidal in nature.
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No Comparison Between ABL?s Silver Solutions and Other Silver Products
American Biotech Labs' silver products have been proven to kill bacteria at levels of between 2.5-5 ppm.
Some silver products range between 50,000-300,000 ppm.
Thus, American Biotech Labs' products are effective with
concentrations of 20,000 - 60,000 times less silver in
the solution. Better technology which produces a more useful
(bacteria lethal) product would seem to be the difference.
One can easily conclude that because American Biotech Labs'
silver solution effectively kills bacteria using thousands
of times less silver, the risk of any possible side effects
has been eliminated.
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Minimum Amount Of Silver Known To Cause Argyria
Hill and Pillsbury (1939) stated, the ordinary
clinical use of colloidal silver compounds practically
never gives rise to any gross untoward effect other than
argyria. The minimum amount of silver known to cause argyria
in adults, from the use of any silver compound (including
salts) is 900 mg of silver taken orally in one year. In
order to reach this level of silver intake, an individual
would have to consume 380-8 oz. bottles of American Biotech
Labs' 10 PPM silver product within one year. Suggested
adult dosage is about 1 teaspoon taken one to three times
daily. This means that an individual would have to consume
over 50 times the normal adult dosage, every day for a
year to reach the lowest level ever known to cause argyria.
It should be noted that EPA standards for the amount of
silver that can be safely consumed in drinking water is
.005 milligrams per kilogram of weight per day (EPA RED
document page 2, 4th paragraph). This means that a normal
sized adult could safely consume one ounce (6 tsp) of the
10 PPM American Biotech Labs silver product every day for
a 72 year life span and still be within the safe limits
as defined by the EPA. In the EPA RED document for silver,
the EPA goes on to state (3rd page, 4th paragraph), The
EPA does not anticipate that dietary exposure to these
low levels of silver will be associated with any significant
degree of risk.
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American Biotech Labs Safety Data
American Biotech Labs has had five independent
toxicity tests completed on its 10 and 22 PPM silver products.
The American Biotech Labs product was tested in animals
at as much as 200 times the normal adult dosage, or the
equivalent of an adult consuming 32 full ounces of the
10 ppm product at one sitting. In conclusion to the animal
tests, the independent medical testing laboratory stated
that the ASAP Solution was found to be completely non-toxic
to the test animals. The product was also tested for cytotoxicity
in both human epithelial cells and also African green monkey
or Vero cells, at both the regular 10 ppm level and also
at the extra-strength 22 ppm level. In all four cytotoxicity
tests the Amreican Biotech Labs' products were found completely
non-toxic to both the human and Vero cells.
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Absorption And Retention Of Ingested Silver
According to the EPA IRIS Report on silver (Integrated
Risk Information Systems) (5th page, 1st paragraph) it
states that a number of tests were completed to test the
absorption and retention of ingested silver in a number
of animals (including primates). In conclusion, the test
work indicated that between 90-99% of ingested silver was
excreted on the second day after ingestion and greater
than 99% was excreted in less than a week. In other words,
almost all the ingested silver was out of the body in only
two days, which indicates that silver does not build up
in the system when consumed in small amounts.
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Levels Of Silver Usage Historically Deemed Safe
Many different silver products have been and are
still being used throughout the medical industry. Up until
the advent of chemical antibiotics which came about in
the 1940's, some very strong silver products were being
used as antibiotics. Of the millions of people who used
these concentrated silver products, there were no reported
deaths and only 239 reported cases of generalized Argyria
(EPA Report ECAO-CIN-026 Jan ?91" Pg. VI-3). In that
same EPA report on page VI-4 it states that Gaul and Staud
(1935) suggested 8 grams of silver arsphenamine (used by
injection at 145,000 ppm strength) as a safe total dose.
They also noted that other authors suggest safe total doses
of 12-15 grams, based on clinical experience. The work
of Furchner et al (1968) as stated above showed that small
amounts of silver did not build up in the system of primates.
But, for arguments sake, if we assumed that every bit of
ingested silver was retained by the body, and that a person
was using the American Biotech Labs 10 ppm silver solution
at a level of two teaspoons daily, we can state that it
would take an individual 235.66 years of daily usage at
two teaspoons to achieve the total consumption of 8 grams
(a level they deemed safe).
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ASAP Silver VS Prescription Antibiotics Usage
Prescription antibiotic usage, unlike silver,
can be very dangerous and in numerous cases can cause death.
In an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical
Association) in December of the year 2000, Barbra Starfield
estimated that there were 106,000 deaths yearly, that were
caused by the use of antibiotics used correctly. This number
does not include deaths from antibiotic which were used
or prescribed incorrectly. There were no reported deaths
or injuries in the year 2000 from the medicinal use of
silver products.
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Conclusion
There is no comparison on the issue of safety
between silver products and prescription antibiotics. Silver
is obviously much safer to use. According to the EPA, who
is in charge of defining safe levels of any mineral in
water used for ingestion or drinking, the oral consumption
of small amounts of silver in water on a daily basis poses
no significant degree of risk. Unless an individual were
constantly consuming (every day for over a year) over 50
times the recommended daily dosage of the American Biotech
Labs' product at 10 ppm, there is no possibility of that
individual contracting the non-toxic condition known as
argyria.
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