More than half the world’s population
is said to be infected by it. And 80% of
the people infected have no overt symptoms for years. Worse yet, the pathogen is so hardy even
prescription antibiotic drugs often fail to eradicate it when symptoms appear.
Many colloidal silver users say
colloidal silver works phenomenally well against H. pylori, while others have
had only limited success. Here’s what
I’ve learned know, so far…
Hi, Steve
Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
I’m
frequently asked if colloidal silver is effective against H. pylori, the pesky, difficult-to-eradicate stomach bug know to
cause chronic heartburn, ulcers and other stomach problems.
Unfortunately,
I haven’t seen any clinical studies specifically demonstrating colloidal silver
to be effective against H. pylori.
However, one interesting study conducted in the 1950’s demonstrated
that an oral colloidal silver product (i.e., colloidal silver oxide) was a
highly effective treatment for peptic ulcers. Indeed, it cured ulcers in only nine days!
Keep in mind,
this study was conducted several decades before medical science discovered that
H. pylori is one of the most common
causes of peptic ulcers!
In other
words, the only thing the researchers could conclude from their study was that
the colloidal silver product healed the ulcers.
They most likely didn’t realize the silver was attacking the root cause of the ulcers, meaning the H. pylori bacterium!
Anecdotal Accounts
So have
colloidal silver users experienced good results using colloidal silver against H. pylori? Frankly, I’ve heard mixed results. But here’s some of the good ones:
On the
TurnAroundYourHealth.net web site under the section on treating H. pylori, it says:
“Taking 1 teaspoonful of colloidal silver 3
times a day for 3 weeks is a well known and effective treatment for H. pylori without
the use of antibiotics.”
And I found
this confirming testimonial posted elsewhere on the internet recently:
“I was taking antibiotics frequently,
for H pylori bacteria in my
stomach. After each course of antibiotics, I used to feel good for some time.
Then again I start feeling too much of gas in stomach and heart burns.
I checked on the internet for a
natural antibiotic, and came across lots of colloidal silver sites. I bought a
bottle of 5ppm colloidal silver from a health store and started taking one
teaspoon three times a day.
After about a week, all my symptoms of
excessive gas in the stomach and heartburn is almost cured. I am happy, that colloidal
silver has worked for me. Now I am taking it daily.”
--
Ajeeth C.
So that’s some very good news. Anecdotally, anyway, it seems that some people are having great success treating their H. pylori infections with small amounts of colloidal silver!
As natural
health journalist Tony Isaacs has written on NaturalNews.com, “Colloidal silver helps kill the H. pylori
bacteria and helps heal injured stomach tissues”
The Key to Success?
A gentleman
from Colorado supports the above claim.
He says he spent 12 years in a laboratory researching the uses of
colloidal silver, and that one of the more difficult projects he was involved
with was its effect on H. pylori.
He claims to
have discovered that the key to success to beating an active H. pylori infection was in using
colloidal silver on an empty stomach,
at least three times a day:
“The trick is to take about 1 ounce on
an empty stomach three times per day for about a week.
If you take it with anything else...
It will bond with that and not work. If you add sugar... It will not work. If
you take it only once a day it will not work.
But when we tested it by itself, on an
empty stomach, three times per day, it dropped the H. Pylori titer down to
un-measurable. Even months later.
I have since used it on a few friends
with ulcers and it has dumb-founded the folks at the hospital because when they
use the endoscope and see the ulcer and then the titer comes back for negative
H. Pylori, they just shake their heads.
Then... of course, the ulcers heal
very quickly and everyone is happy."
Mixed Results
Unfortunately, some people have written me to say that colloidal silver did not help them at all with H. pylori. As one of them recently wrote to me:
“I took colloidal silver daily, for six weeks
straight. It had no effect whatsoever on
my H. pylori symptoms.”
It’s very
frustrating, of course, when you get mixed results from users, because you
don’t know if the ones who experienced no relief at all were simply using a
lousy brand of colloidal silver, or were not taking enough, or were taking it
in combination with foods, or had stomach problems in addition to H. pylori that they didn’t know
about.
Here’s
another potential reason for poor results:
According to
the Immunogenic Research Foundation, sub-species of 20 different pathogens have
been shown to “exhibit various degrees of resistance to the bactericidal
effects of silver-based drugs.”
Unfortunately,
among these 20 silver-resistant pathogens is a sub-species of H. pylori.
While it’s extremely rare for a pathogen to be
resistant to silver, it can happen. So it’s quite possible that some people who
fail to experience positive results when taking colloidal silver for H. pylori are infected with a rare,
silver-resistant strain of the pathogen.
See my
previous article, Can Pathogens Develop Resistance to Antimicrobial Silver?
Colloidal Silver and Pepto-Bismol
One person recently
called to say he had an H. pylori infection
that had been causing peptic ulcers.
He told me that
by taking colloidal silver three times a day with the popular over-the-counter
heartburn remedy, Pepto-Bismol, he had cured himself of the H. pylori infection, and his peptic
ulcers healed up as well!
That’s
fascinating to me, because ever since doctors figured out that peptic ulcers
are being caused by bacterial like H.
pylori, they’ve began prescribing antibiotic drugs such as Flagyl and Amoxillin
in combination with the gut-healing mineral bismuth.
The
antibiotic drugs are prescribed to kill the H.
pylori pathogen, of course. And the
bismuth is prescribed to help soothe and heal the ulcers.
Of course, as
most people know, bismuth is the main ingredient in Pepto-Bismol, the famous
gut-soothing over-the-counter remedy for heartburn, diarrhea, and more.
So for cases
of peptic ulcer and heartburn, combining a little bit of colloidal silver (for
its antimicrobial benefits) with a little bit of Pepto-Bismol (for its bismuth
content) seems like a no-brainer to me.
And
thankfully, combining the two has worked like a charm for some people, as I
documented last year in my article Update to Colloidal Silver and Ulcers Post.
Indeed, I was
able to heal my own chronic heartburn – which can also be caused by H. pylori infection– by filling a
shot glass half-and-half with Pepto-Bismol and colloidal silver, and drinking
it down three times a day on an empty stomach.
My theory is
that this worked because the Pepto-Bismol/colloidal silver mixture is able to
coat the infected area of the stomach, keeping the colloidal silver in contact
with the colonies of pathogens longer than would be possible using colloidal
silver by itself.
While there’s
no way to tell without blood tests, endoscopy or a clinical study whether or
not the colloidal silver is actually killing the H. pylori pathogen and the Pepto-Bismol is healing the inflammation,
it sure seems like this could be the case.
Other Combinations
I’ve also
read that some people have had success against H. pylori using a combination of colloidal silver and the spice, turmeric.
From what
I’ve read, they take the turmeric orally in the form of commonly available tablets
from the health food store, using the dosage recommended on the label. And they simply wash it down with an ounce of
colloidal silver each day.
Turmeric is highly
antibacterial, of course. And taking it
with colloidal silver apparently provides a nice, one-two punch against H. pylori. (Some people have recommended this
combination for internal MRSA infections, as well.)
Other people
have told me they use a raw unprocessed honey product like Manuka honey, along
with colloidal silver. Raw, unprocessed
honey is highly antimicrobial. And of
course, so is the colloidal silver.
Some colloidal
silver users who claim to have cured their H.
pylori infections have told me they take the colloidal silver at the start
of each day, and the Manuka honey at the end of each day, with the goal, once
again, of providing a daily antimicrobial one-two punch against the H. pylori pathogen.
Check With Your Doctor
Naturally, with
stomach ailments you should always check with your doctor in case anything
serious is going on.
These are
just some of the ideas I’ve heard over the years that have worked for other
people battling against H. pylori
infections. If you try any of these ideas, and they work for you, please let me
know.
To learn more
about making and using colloidal silver, just click the link. Meanwhile, I’ll
be back next week with another great article!
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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