Hi Ode,Is this anything worth trying to do at home with a couple of pieces of wire and a bandaid?Thanks.PT From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 2:21 AM Subject: Re: CS>Silver dressings The silver bandaid has a layer interwoven with aluminum thread and another one with silver thread. When body fluids provide the electrolyte, a battery effect is created which sends silver ions headed towards the aluminum..only to get lost in the wound.
It is in all respects, a "CS" generator wrapped around your finger. The silver dressings such as silverlon and acticoat are used with small amounts of electrical current to produce the silver ions in the wound. Often used in burn wards now. Ode On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Jane MacRoss <[email protected]> wrote: Silver-containing foil dressings are used frequently these days in nursing - not CS I admit - however what interested me was that I could feel a reddened swelling at the tip of one of my fingers indicating the beginning of infection there & wrapped it in a silver containing bandaid and within two days the finger was completely clear with never any increase in infection or pain ... I just felt that silver, even being near infection, was enough to clear it & was pleased that in this case this was so. Jane
