Its possible cyanosis contributed to the blue appearance but he HAD been
drinking home-made CS for 6 months. He was 65 and had to be hospitalised
when those symptoms presented themselves. But being incoherent
concurrently with having argyria doesn't automatically mean they were in
any way linked. Lots of things can cause those symptoms in an elderly
man. Alchoholism or early Dementia for example, or overdosing on some
other 'less obvious' supplement. The TGA told me that after he was
hospitalised and was taken off CS he 'recovered' (whatever that means),
so they accepted the doctor's diagnosis that the CS had caused
everything. They provided no details of how much CS he was drinking or
how he made it. They also didn't say how bad the argyria was. It might
have been barely noticable. And most importantly they didn't say why he
was taking CS in the first place. The fact he recovered from any of
those symptoms after being hospitalised doesn't prove much. It might
simply have been that concurrent with being 'taken off CS' he was
getting decent care and meals for the first time in years.
David
Subject:
Re: CS>Argyria yes. Other side effects no.
From:
"Carl Deb Charter" <[email protected]>
,
Is it possible this man actually has a heart disease resulting in
cyanosis (skin bluing from oxygen deficiency in the blood)? Just curious.
A few months ago here in Australia the TGA (our FDA) published an
alert that colloidal silver had caused in an elderly man
'debilitating fatigue accompanied by blue skin discolouration,
dilated cardiomyopathy, amnesia and incoherent speech.' On three
ocassions I asked the TGA to add some reference to the alert that
proves that silver could cause any of these symptons other than
argyria. They couldn't, and in the end simply said that the
doctors diagnosis was good enough for them. I asked 'How can a
doctor make such a diagnosis when theres no research to prove that
silver can cause such a thing?' They had no answer for that other
than "Go away".
David
