Unfortunately,
gonorrhea, also known as “the clap,” is one of the most prevalent of all
sexually transmitted diseases, with more than 100 million people infected each
year.
Will
colloidal silver or other forms of antimicrobial silver turn out to be the solution
to stopping the spread of this deadly new form of gonorrhea? As you’ll see in the article below, at least
one medical news source is now calling on researchers to start looking into its
use…
Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
According
to an article in Medical News Today, the World Health
Organization says a new drug-resistant form of the sexually transmitted disease
gonorrhea could cause “an epidemic of sexually transmitted infections around
the world.”
Apparently,
the standard treatment for stubborn gonorrhea infections, an antibiotic drug
called ceftriaxone, is slowly losing
its effectiveness, and doctors are beginning to run out of treatment options
for patients with the drug-resistant form of the disease.
So
the World Health Organization is calling on researchers to come up with
different treatment options before the problem gets out of hand.
Antimicrobial
Silver to the Rescue?
Apparently,
one of those options could be a return to the use of antimicrobial silver, or
at least the silver compound known as silver nitrate. Note the last paragraph in the Medical News Today article. It reads:
“In the middle ages, physicians are said to have used mercury
injection via the urinary meatus, but by the 19th century, silver nitrate
became widely used and later colloidal silver, which was marketed as
Protargol by Bayer from 1897 onwards, until the first antibiotics became
available in the 1940s. Perhaps
researchers would be wise to take another look at the silver nitrate
possibility.”
The
writer acknowledges that both silver nitrate and an older form of colloidal
silver called Protargol (a silver protein compound) were used to treat
gonorrhea in the early 1900's. And now
that antibiotics are no longer working well against this new
"untreatable" strain of gonorrhea, the Medical News Today writer recommends researchers take another look
at silver nitrate as a potential cure for the disease.
The
only problem with the early silver treatments for gonorrhea – such as silver
nitrate, Protargol and others -- was that for the most part they either had to
be administered intravenously, or by injection, or by "inunction"
which was a method of mixing the silver with an absorbable substance and then forcing
high levels of silver into the body by rubbing it into the skin (which,
unfortunately, sometimes left permanent skin staining).
Dr. Wilson’s
Stunning Clinical Report from the 1900’s
However,
in an older
clinical report from the early 1900’s titled “Venereal Diseases: Their Treatment
and Cure” by Dr. Omar Wilson, M.D., and published in a journal called The Canadian Medical, the colloidal
silver protein compound known as Protargol was said to be an astonishingly
helpful treatment for gonorrhea when instilled into the urethra of the penis.
While
this does not sound particularly pleasant, here’s what Dr. Wilson wrote in his
report:
“Some years ago I was afforded the opportunity of experimenting
with germicidal preparations in gonorrhea. After prolonged experiments I became
convinced that Protargol gave the best results, and curiously enough, that one-half
percent Protargol was remarkably more efficient than solutions of greater strength.”
Dr.
Wilson believed that “one hundred per cent of cases of gonorrhea are curable”
if the right treatments were used in a professional manner. “Such results, however, are only obtainable,”
Dr. Wilson advised, “with men properly and scientifically trained.”
Dr.
Wilson goes on to say that in cases where the gonorrhea symptoms are largely
focused in the urethra (i.e., the tube of the penis) causing inflammation, irrigating
the urethra with the colloidal silver protein compound Protargol is
effective. Here’s how he described this
treatment:
“In early anterior urethritis it is my practice to endeavour to abort
the condition by daily anterior irrigations of Protargol, either by patient or
physician. With a rubber-tipped urethral syringe the patient is directed to
inject Protargol four times daily, holding the same in for a period of four
minutes.”
In
other words, using a syringe with a rubber tip and no needle, the Protargol
silver protein compound solution was instilled (or squirted, to use a layman’s term) into the urethra through the
little hole in the tip of the penis.
Can Modern
Colloidal Silver Be Used In This Manner?
While
researching this story, I discovered that one anonymous commentator on the
internet has interpreted Dr. Wilson’s comments and updated them, substituting
modern, electrically generated colloidal silver for the Protargol silver
protein compound solution. Here’s what
he wrote:
If gonorrhea
occurs in the urethra (the tube inside your penis) you have to do an
instillation of colloidal silver there:
1.
clean the outside of your penis with an alcohol swab
2.
next get a syringe without
the needle, full of colloidal silver, and put the tip of the syringe in the
"little hole" of your pennis. (use a new syringe each time)
3.
gently push all the colloidal silver inside the urethra and keep
it there for 4 minutes minimum before letting it go outside
4.
repeat the process 4 times per day or more, until cured. You can
use high ppm colloidal-ionic silver, the higher the better.
Personally,
I’d be very skeptical of doing
this.
For
one, modern electrically-generated colloidal silver and the old-fashioned Protargol
form of colloidal silver protein compound
are two completely different animals, so to speak. While Protargol is said to
work in the manner described above, there’s no clinical evidence that modern, electrically generated colloidal
silver would work effectively if used in the same manner.
Indeed,
I’ve known women who have used modern, electrically generated colloidal silver as
a vaginal douche in an attempt to get rid of a vaginal candida yeast infection,
and found that the silver tended to inflame and irritate the soft tissue in the
vaginal tract to the point that peeing later became painful for several days. It may have been that an overly strong concentration
of colloidal silver was used. Or there
may have been some other reason for this reaction.
But
the point is there’s simply no telling what a urethral instillation of modern,
electrically generated colloidal silver might do to the soft tissue inside the urethra. If it increased
inflammation rather than soothed it, then the woes would be compounded rather
than alleviated. So this type of
experimentation is not for the faint of heart. After all, you do like to be able to pee when you have
to go, right?
The bottom
line is this: For serious conditions
like sexually transmitted diseases, always follow the advice of a good,
licensed physician, and not something you’ve read on the internet. As the old saying goes, “Don’t attempt this
at home, kids.” And remember, I’m just
reporting this stuff for historical reference, in context with the subject of
this article. I’m not advocating
it.
Prostatic
Gonorrhea
Dr.
Wilson went on to say that the Protargol silver protein compound solution could
also be used when gonorrhea spreads into the prostate area. He claimed that in such instances, after
instilling the Protargol into the urethra as described in his report, prostatic
massage should be applied afterwards.
According to Dr. Wilson in his clinical report:
“…In prostatic cases the patient carries out treatment identically
the same. Private ambulatory cases are required to report every three days for
prostatic massage followed by bladder irrigations of one-half per cent Protargol.
In institution life where such cases are more readily controllable, such
treatment can be given every two days, without danger of producing orchitis or
other complication.”
Dr.
Wilson further wrote:
“A prominent urologist has stated that prostatic massage alone will
cure the great majority of cases. There is a smattering of truth in his
statement, for we all know that any case that’s been untreated or improperly
treated for a fortnight becomes prostatic. Assuredly prostatic massage with Protargol
irrigations will clear up one hundred per cent of our cases, if they be otherwise uncomplicated.”
Dr.
Wilson went on to say that certain complications from gonorrhea would require
additional forms of treatment: “It is quite unnecessary to discuss here the
various complications other than prostatitis. Orchitis, epidymo-orchitis,
seminal vesiculitis, gonorrheeal rheumatism, peri-urethral abscess, prostatic
abscess and stricture, all demand special treatment…”
In
other words, instilling Protargol into the urethra is only successful if there
are no serious complications taking place from the gonorrheal infection. And if there are complications, additional and
quite different forms of treatment would be necessary. Dr. Wilson doesn’t discuss those treatments
in his clinical report.
A Case In
Point…
Apparently,
based on an internet account I’ve seen, at least one person has tried the
urethral instillation method of combating gonorrhea, using modern, electrically
generated colloidal silver instead of Protargol. But the results, if they can be believed,
were less than stellar.
If
you conduct a Google search on the phrase "colloidal silver
gonorrhea" one of the hits you'll get will be a string of posts on the
CureZone.com web site, in which a man with gonorrhea had written in explaining
that he'd ingested gallons of colloidal silver orally, and still his gonorrhea was
not cured.
CureZone.com
members gave him many suggestions, one of which was to follow Dr. Wilson’s
technique described above, by putting modern, electrically generated colloidal
silver into a syringe (without a needle) and squirting it directly up into the
urethra, holding it there for at least four minutes at a time and repeating the
process several times a day.
The
gentleman wrote back that he’d already tried this, and as long as he did it every day the gonorrhea seemed to be
abated. But every time he quit doing it,
the gonorrhea returned full force.
Could
this be because he was already at the stage of gonorrhea where other serious complications
such as those described above had set in, and the gonorrhea had spread to other
parts of his body such as the prostate and beyond?
I
don’t know. Regardless of the reason,
however, it’s another example of why serious diseases such as gonorrhea require
professional medical intervention. Don’t be an alternative medical martyr when
your long-term health and well-being is at stake.
So Would
Colloidal Silver Work, Or Not?
While
oral and topical use of colloidal silver is widely known, anecdotally and in
some clinical reports, to be effective against many types of infections, even
some very serious infections such as MRSA (see the Colloidal Silver Success Stories web site),
I’ve never seen a single clinical medical study demonstrating modern forms of
colloidal silver, used orally, to be effective against gonorrhea.
Nevertheless,
if I were so unfortunate as to catch this new drug-resistant strain of
gonorrhea (God forbid!), I'd certainly try using colloidal silver. But I'd probably use it in conjunction with the
appropriate prescription antibiotic drugs.
And of course, only under the direct supervision of an infectious
disease specialist.
After
all, a BYU study demonstrated that many antibiotics appeared to miraculously regain
their infection-fighting qualities against drug-resistant pathogens when colloidal silver treatment was added to
the antibiotic drug treatment.
Indeed,
you can see the famous BYU study on the "Clinical Studies and Reports" page
on TheSilverEdge.com web site. The study
is titled “Bactericidal Activity of
Combinations of Silver–Water Dispersion™ with 19 Antibiotics Against Seven
Microbial Strains.” It’s located about 23 studies down the list, at the
link above.
It’s
a very interesting study. And there’s
certainly merit in the idea that adding the use of a high-quality oral colloidal
silver solution to an antibiotic drug treatment plan would be worth
investigating in a case where the gonorrhea infection was not responding to the
antibiotic drug alone.
So
from my strictly layman’s position, I have to agree in principle with the
writer of the article at Medical News
Today: If the World Health
Organization really wants to stop
this drug-resistant form of gonorrhea before it turns into an epidemic, they
need to start looking into the use of antimicrobial silver – the world’s most
powerful natural infection-fighting agent.
It
has worked in the past, however inconvenient the treatment may have been. With modern forms of antimicrobial silver
(including ionic silver, nanosilver, mild silver protein, and many others), combined
with modern forms of treatment, it certainly could work again. But the clinical research needs to be done now, before this new drug-resistant
strain of gonorrhea gets out of control.
Ultimately,
it’s possible that intravenous silver nitrate treatment could work, or perhaps silver
nitrate given by injection. That’s what
the writer at Medical News Today
suggested health authorities should look into.
But…are
there any doctors around who still understand how to use silver nitrate safely,
internally? Sure, a highly diluted form
of silver nitrate has been used in newborn baby’s eyes for decades, to prevent
blindness from the gonorrhea pathogen that can be picked up in the mother’s
birth canal.
But
used internally, silver nitrate is a very caustic chemical silver compound
that’s been linked to numerous serious side effects when misused, and therefore
must be used judiciously in the human body in accord with strict medical
protocols.
Yet
surely if researchers would more closely examine the many different forms of
antimicrobial silver now available, they could find a type that would either
work well on its own merits against the new drug-resistant gonorrhea without
the side effects of a chemical silver compound like silver nitrate, or that would
work well against the insidious pathogen in conjunction
with the appropriate antibiotic drugs.
Meanwhile,
if all of this talk about drug-resistant infectious diseases is freaking you
out, and you’d like to learn how to make your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart, just click the link.
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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