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Salmonella
cases seem to be on the rise again. And not just
the typical “food poisoning” variety, but also varieties commonly transferred
from animals to humans by direct contact.
Unfortunately,
this ubiquitous pathogen can cause severe abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea
and in some cases even death! And it can
strike without notice. But here’s
the good news: Clinical
studies demonstrate that colloidal silver kills the pathogen on contact, in
just minutes in many cases! Here’s what
you need to know… Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com... Earlier
this year it was reported that some
240 people – mostly children under the age of five – had become sickened with
Salmonella after handling African Dwarf Frogs purchased from pet shops. The
CDC has also reported there were
71 cases of Salmonella infection between February and June in Atlantic coast
states – each of which were associated with chicks and ducklings purchased
either as pets or as egg producers. And
in June of this year, 20 people across five states had become sickened with
Salmonella, apparently caused by eating contaminated alfalfa
sprouts. Now
the FDA is reporting a brand new
Salmonella outbreak, with 97 reported cases of the infection in 23 states,
including 10 hospitalizations – and this time, papaya fruit imported into the
U.S. from Mexico is supposedly to blame.
Sources, Symptoms
and Risk The
Salmonella pathogen can contaminate just about any type of food, including
fruits, vegetables, eggs and meat products – even peanut butter! It’s
also carried naturally by many atypical pets, including lizards, snakes,
turtles, frogs, chickens, ducks and many other animals. What’s
more, it can contaminate entire municipal water supplies, as evidenced by the
2008 outbreak in Alamosa,
Colorado, in which 1,300 residents were severely sickened, one died, and 29
families sued the city after its municipal water supply became contaminated
with Salmonella. Symptoms
of Salmonella infection can include high fever, diarrhea (including bloody
diarrhea), nausea, vomiting and intense abdominal cramping and searing pain. According
to the Centers for Disease Control, symptoms can appear within six to 72 hours
after ingestion or other contact with the Salmonella bacteria, sometimes
longer. While
anyone can become infected with Salmonella simply by ingesting it or even
coming into contact with it when it’s carried by pets – --
children under age 10 are at the highest risk for serious salmonella
infections, as well as pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems, and
those undergoing chemotherapy or organ transplants. The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates nearly a million and a half cases
of Salmonella infection occur annually in the United States – --
most of them mild to moderate, but with some 20,000 requiring hospitalization
and ongoing treatment, and approximately 535 cases annually resulting in death. Colloidal
Silver to the Rescue! Is
colloidal silver effective against the Salmonella pathogen? The
bad news is that while there are over 2,300 different strains of Salmonella,
only a small handful of these strains
have been clinically studied in relation to colloidal silver. The
good news is that in virtually every one of these studies, colloidal
silver proved to be more than capable of destroying the Salmonella pathogen
tested! Indeed, Salmonella infection is one of the 109 diseases
documented to have been widely treated with
colloidal silver before the advent of prescription antibiotic drugs in the
1940’s. More
recently, in the well-known studies conducted by microbiologist David A.
Revelli and Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Biology Dr. Ron W. Leavitt,
Ph.D at Brigham Young University in May 1999… …a
colloidal silver solution was able to kill two different strains of the
Salmonella food-poisoning pathogen, at extremely low concentrations. Here’s
a brief synopsis of what the researchers discovered: Salmonella arizona (Food poisoning, etc.) inhibited @ 2.5 ppm
and killed @ 5 ppm. 1/28/99 BYU Report. Salmonella typhimurium (Food poisoning and enteric fever) inhibited
and killed at a concentration of 2.5 ppm. 6/7/99 BYU Report. What’s
more, in a clinical
study
titled “Colloidal Silver As A New Antimicrobial Agent,” published in the International Journal of Microbiological
Research (1 (1): 33-36, 2010), colloidal silver was demonstrated to be highly
effective against Salmonella typhi
and three other serious, disease-causing pathgoens. The
study concluded: “The initial idea was to determine the antimicrobial activity of
colloidal silver, so it could be used as a powerful in vitro antimicrobial
agent… Antimicrobial activity was determined by means of agar
diffusion. Resistant clinical isolates
of Staphyloccocus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aregnosa, and Salmonella typhi were used as the
test organisms… In the present experiment colloidal silver showed highly potent
antibacterial activity toward all tested pathogens, both Gram-positive and
Gram-negative.” And
according to silvermedicine.org, additional clinical studies have demonstrated
the powerful infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver against
Salmonella pathogens. For example: “In a time-kill study conducted by University of North Texas
clinical researcher Mark A. Farinha, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, when Salmonella typhimurium was tested
against a popular colloidal silver product… …the result was a reduction in population counts from over 10
million to undetectable in four minutes of exposure!” In
the above study, “two concentrations of isolated silver were used, one 15 PPM
isolated colloidal silver and one 30 PPM isolated colloidal silver… …The
30 PPM colloidal silver achieved results markedly faster, although both
formulations achieved the desired results within
four minutes.” Of
course, these are in vitro (i.e.,
test tube) studies, so technically they don’t prove oral use of colloidal silver
to be effective against a Salmonella infection in humans. But
they do demonstrate that when
colloidal silver and Salmonella come into direct contact with one another, Salmonella loses the battle! More Tests
and Studies… Similarly,
tests by NVID International, Inc., a company that produces water treatment
systems, has reportedly demonstrated
that ionic silver is 99% effective within one
minute against Salmonella cholerasuis
ATCC 10708 – an astonishingly rapid kill time! And
a study by Animal
Science Food Safety Consortium at Kansas State University have demonstrated
that colloidal silver produced a greater than 90% reduction in bacterial counts
of the Salmonella spp strain found on
the surface of beef. The
University researchers concluded that using colloidal silver as a rinse for
beef during its processing would make “an effective intervention technology”
for reducing Salmonella levels on meat sold to the general public. A
quote from the study: “Treating beef flank with 32 ppm colloidal silver (Ag) solution
had a bactericidal affect on Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli O157:H7,
resulting in a greater than 90% reduction in four hours. Atomic Absorption Analysis of treated beef samples yielded
residual Ag well below the Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) allowance
for 3 oz of red meat. Although not yet approved for use on foods, a colloidal silver
rinse implemented in conjunction with other intervention technologies during
the carcass conversion and/or fabrication process could be an effective
intervention technology against Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli
O157:H7.” And Even More Studies… In
another study, a silver
nylon fabric was demonstrated to stop all growth of Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella
typhi, as well as 15 other infectious microorganisms, when a broth
containing the microbes was poured over the fabric for 24 hours. According
to the study, called “Silver-Nylon: a New Antimicrobial Agent” and published in
the journal Antimicrobial Agents and
Chemotherapy (Mar. 1983, P. 356-359) : “To determine the spectrum of antimicrobial
activity of Silver Nylon, 50 IlI (5 x 107 to 1 x 109 CFU) of an overnight broth
of 22 different organisms was placed on the surface of an agar column 2 mm in
height overlying a 1-cm2 piece of SN fabric. No growth of
the following 17 organisms was seen after 24 h of incubation: Acinetobacter
calcoaceticus, Shigella sonnei, Salmonella
typhimurium, Salmonella typhi, Enterococcus sp., Serratia
marcescens… …Pseudomonas
maltophilia, Listeria monocytogenes, Enterobacter cloacae, Staphylococcus
epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus… …Escherichia
coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, group A Streptococcus,
group B Streptococcus, and Pseudomonas cepacia.” Finally,
in the famous BYU study titled, “Bactericidal activity of combinations of
Silver–Water Dispersion™ with 19 antibiotics against seven microbial strains”… …conducted at the Department of
Microbiology/Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University… …it was demonstrated that a strain of antibiotic-resistant
Salmonella typhi became susceptible
to antibiotics again, but only when a
colloidal silver solution was added to the antibiotics! And
in another in vitro study it was
demonstrated that just three drops of a popular brand of colloidal silver in
one liter of water killed more than 99% of all Salmonella arizonae present, as well as two other water-borne
pathogens. What the
Experts Say Experts
agree that silver in its various forms – including colloidal silver, silver
nanoparticles and silver ions – are very effective against Salmonella strains. Here
are some pertinent quotes from a variety of expert sources: "Research
with the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has found that silver,
incorporated in the surfaces of hospital equipment furniture, can reduce
bacterial levels by 99 per cent. This, in turn, cuts infection risk from
superbugs such as MRSA, E. coli and salmonella." --
Dr Richard Hastings, microbiologist for BioCote, Ltd. “Several
years ago we conducted some rather extensive evaluations of various protocols
promising effective results against various pathogenic agents which cause 'food
poisoning'. The one
protocol, effective against ALL agents evaluated, was colloidal silver. A 5 ppm
solution proved effective against all pathogens tested; yielding complete
control within 6 to 8 minutes.....regardless of concentration of the pathogenic
agent. Control was
effected in some solutions as weak as one part of 5 ppm CS,to 50,000 parts
contaminated solution. Among the
many agents tested were botulinum, campyobacter, salmonella and listeria
(bacterial agents); and norwalk-like viruses and hepatitus A (viral agents).” --
Brooks Bradley, Harbone Research Foundation “Table 2
shows that all tested bacteria were resistant to more than one antibiotic. The
important observation was the antibacterial activity of colloidal silver
against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, and
Pseudomonas aeruginosa which exhibits superior effects when compared with other
antibiotics.” --
International Journal of Microbiological Research, [1 (1): 33-36, 2010] “Colloidal silver as a new
antimicrobial agent” “Properly
manufactured, colloidal silver in a concentration of 3-5 ppm has produced
excellent results in laboratory testing and has proven to be antibacterial for
Streptococcus Pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhea, Gardnerella
vagina/is, Salmonella typhi, Bacillus subtilus, Escheria coli and other
enteric pathogens and is fungicidal for Candida albicans, Candida golbata and
M furfur.” -- Dr. Larry C. Ford, M.D., UCLA,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA
School of Medicine, November 1, 1988 Not only
do the experts agree, but as you’ll learn directly below, so do experienced
colloidal silver users who have used colloidal silver orally to avoid expensive trips to the hospital after coming down
with food poisoning through to be from Salmonella contamination. Food Poisoning and Colloidal
Silver While
not all food poisoning is caused by
Salmonella bacteria, a great deal of it is. In fact,
according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Salmonella infection is the
#2 most prevalent cause of food poisoning in the U.S. today. Here,
therefore, are some real-life testimonials from the Colloidal Silver Success Stories web site, attesting to the
fact of colloidal silver’s effectiveness against food poisoning: “I got food
poisoning Friday night. Woke up Saturday at 1am with horrible stomach cramps
and frightening diarrhea. By morning 8:00am, I
could tell it was over. I truly believe that if I had not started taking it
when I did, I would have ended up in the hospital!” “My girlfriend and I
developed either a bad case of stomach flu and/or food poisoning not to long
after our Valentine’s Day dinner. Unfortunately she
wasn't able to keep anything down at all, including the colloidal silver. As
for me, I immediately began taking about an ounce of colloidal silver every
half hour. Within about 4 hours of this routine I was feeling in the
"clear" zone. They listen closely
now when I mention using colloidal silver.” “Two neighbors got
food poisoning from that spinach problem a couple years ago and asked me if I
could do anything to help them. So that afternoon I gave them each a teaspoon
of silver and they went home. Next morning, I went
to give them more but they said they were fine. They took one more dose any way
and the bacteria must have been killed because there were never any problems
again.” --
L.L., Merced, CA “One evening I
stopped to have a cheeseburger at America’s second biggest chain. On the way
home I began to feel queasy with stomach pains & gas - I have had it before
and I know the signs of food poisoning. I got home and drank
four ounces of silver water -- BAM food poisoning stopped immediately!” --
Dan F., Naples, FL And
here’s an interesting testimonial on food poisoning and colloidal silver, from
my 547-page book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual: “I was with a
business associate working late one Friday night. At about 10:30 p.m. we ventured out to a
local big chain restaurant to indulge in a couple of big burgers. We finished
for the night at 2:30a.m. I went home and shortly thereafter experienced my
first encounter with food poisoning. If you have ever had
food poisoning you can understand that there is no mistaking the symptoms. For those of you not so familiar, it is more
than simply getting ill. Imagine your
insides have suddenly turned into snakes and are involuntarily convulsing and
trying to exit your body. You become ill
with such force and for a long enough duration that you wonder if you will ever
be allowed another breath. That’s what I
personally experienced. Finally after what seemed an eternity in hell, I was
finally released from the clutches of the evil commode. Weakened and out of
breath I gravitated to the medicine cabinet to give the colloidal silver a try,
but more seriously thinking about going to the emergency room, since I had just
seen a special on TV where a Centers For Disease Control (CDC) report acknowledged
that 9,000 people die each year from food poisoning. I took about one
half ounce and went to lay down. The
evil commode called me again in about ten minutes, but I was so purged that it
was a wasted attempt to try and get anything more from me. I laid down again
and now considered more seriously going to the hospital, at the same time
though exhausted, I felt better. The
only thing that I wanted to do was sleep.
I brushed my teeth,
and took a tablespoon more or silver. I
applied some essential oils to my abdomen to alleviate the pain from the still
present cramping. Though dehydrated I
avoided water for fear of the evil commode.
As I began to doze off the thought crossed my mind that I might not wake
in the morning. The next day did come,
although low on energy I felt I might survive.
I was able to eat
breakfast at 8:00a.m. About 1:00 p.m. I called my business associate who was
unable to come to the phone, he had become ill and went to the hospital (as
related to me by his roommate); the hospital confirmed that he had food
poisoning. They reportedly pumped his
stomach. After going home he
continued to be too ill to eat or get out of bed for several days, and remained
ill and went back to the doctor’s office for continued care for two weeks! I offered to provide
colloidal silver during his ordeal, but his response was basically the same as
my initial reaction, ‘it’s probably a lot of bunk.’ He did accept my offer
close to the time he recovered, too late for either of us to give it a second
thought. Is this conclusive
evidence that colloidal silver cured my food poisoning? Of course not. However, it was more than an interesting
coincidence to me. After this incident
I very cautiously began taking colloidal silver more regularly, especially at
any sign of feeling run down or when I felt a cold coming on. About three years have now gone by and I have
yet to get a cold or flu.
Coincidence? I think not! In January of 1997 I
indulged a fine meal at the best Cajun restaurant in town with some friends and
family. I hadn’t had oysters in over ten
years due to the many reports of their no longer being safe to eat. I was at one of the finest restaurants in
town, I thought certainly they get only the finest product from the freshest
sources, so in a bold move I took a chance.
As you probably
guessed, later that evening, I was once again in the clutches of the evil
commode. He was not as forgiving this
time. I quickly realized that as bad as
the first incident was, it really could be worse! I almost lost consciousness this time, and
collapsed briefly when I was finally released.
I wasn’t messing
around this time! I had learned to make
a much stronger solution of colloidal silver and poured a half of a glass,
about 5-6 ounces, and gingerly coaxed it down.
This time I wasn’t called back to the evil commode for a final taunting
or two. I still wondered about the
possibility of not waking up as I dozed off.
The sun returned. I was generally
fine once again. Do I have proof that
what I have just told you is true? Well
my wife, family and close friends were present and could vouch for me. However, that is not
why I am sharing this information with you.
It’s not about me proving anything to you. It’s about sharing my experiences and perhaps
challenging you to seek your own experiences.
The truth is self evident, prove it to yourself! --
V.G. The Bottom
Line Of
course, the above anecdotal accounts, expert quotes and in vitro (i.e., test tube) clinical studies do not medically prove that colloidal silver will be
effective in stopping a case of Salmonella-induced infection because no in vivo (i.e., in the human body) studies
have yet been conducted by the medical community. But
they do demonstrate the fact that silver-based antimicrobials kill different
strains of the Salmonella pathogen
upon direct contact. And
the anecdotal reports from colloidal silver users indicate strongly that
colloidal silver may very well be one of the most powerful natural antidotes
available against Salmonella infection and the related food poisoning it
causes. In
my own case, I’ve successfully used colloidal silver to beat nasty cases of
food poisoning on at least three different occasions over the past six or seven
years. In
the most recent incident, in which I developed severe stomach cramping after
eating half a can of cooked soup that had previously been stored in a food
cabinet in the garage during the hot summer heat, the beneficial effect of the
colloidal silver was thankfully very quickly realized. Here’s
what I wrote about it on the Colloidal
Silver Secrets Community on Facebook:
Colloidal Silver Secrets Community on
Facebook and posting
a brief note about it. Since medical
science isn’t going to conduct the in
vivo (i.e., in the human body) studies needed to demonstrate the
effectiveness of colloidal silver against Salmonella infections anytime soon… …it’s
important that we all share our experiences for the benefit of others who may
be new to this powerful and effective way of healing infections naturally. Meanwhile,
here are two closely related articles you might enjoy: Using Colloidal Silver for
Healthier Fruits and Vegetables http://www.thesilveredge.com/vegetables.shtml Colloidal
Silver, Canning and Food Preparation http://www.thesilveredge.com/canning.shtml Finally,
considering the fact that well over a million people are afflicted with Salmonella
infection in this country every year, you can rest assured that as more
information becomes available on this important subject, I’ll keep you
informed. Until
then, I remain… Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
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