You may have read the warning that 'silver may interfere wth some
antibiotics thereby reducing their effectiveness'. There is no
credible evidence whatsoever for that claim but that doesn't stop the
ironically named National Centre for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine posting it on their webside, and it subsequently being
repeated and posted on Wikipedia.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver?nav=gsa#risks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Adverse_effects
Well surprise, surprise, the exact opposite may be true.
"Scientists have shown that giving tiny amounts of silver at the same
time as antibiotics makes the drugs up to a thousand times more
effective. The finding comes in the wake of warnings by Britain’s top
doctor that the rise of drug-resistant superbugs could trigger an
‘apocalyptic scenario’ in which even routine operations such as hip
surgery become deadly because we have run out of antibiotics."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2344583/Silver-really-COULD-
new-weapon-superbugs-Adding-antibiotics-boosts-effectiveness-1-000-
times.html#ixzz2WkElyLfD
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/190/190ra81
The affiliations of the Authours of the report are impressive...
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biomedical
Engineering and Center of Synthetic Biology, Boston University,
Boston, MA 02215, USA.
2Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard
University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
3Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Boston
University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
4Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA
02118, USA.
Cheers
David in Australia
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