Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
Clinical
research from the
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham-Young University, and
published in the journal Current Science, Vol. 91, No. 7, October
10, 2006, has demonstrated that colloidal silver works synergistically
with antibiotic drugs, and often produces an “additive” effect when used
alongside them.
In
other words, in many cases colloidal silver actually increases the infection-fighting qualities of those drugs.
What’s
more, antibiotic drugs that had previously lost their effectiveness against
drug-resistant pathogens suddenly regain their full effectiveness when
colloidal silver is used with them!
Below
is a list of the antibiotic drugs successfully tested in combination with
silver in the above-linked study.
Most of these antibiotic drugs were demonstrated by
the researchers to be synergistic with colloidal silver. And the
colloidal silver even increased the efficacy of many of them against deadly
pathogens such as MRSA, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
and E. coli.
·
Amikacin
·
Amoxicillin
·
Carbenicillin
·
Cefoperazone
·
Ceftizidime
·
Ciprofloxacin
·
Clindamycin
·
Doxycycline
·
Erythromycin
·
Gentamycin
·
Kanamycin Syn.
·
Nalidixic Acid
·
Oxacillin
·
Penicillin-G
·
Rifampin
·
Streptomycin
·
Tetracycline
·
Tobramycin
·
Trimethoprim
(See full
results in the clinical study linked to in the first paragraph above.)
Further
Confirmation
The
fact that silver can increase the efficacy of antibiotic drugs was further
confirmed in research published in the journal Nanomedicine in June 2007.
In
a study titled
“Synthesis and Effect of Silver Nanoparticles On the Antibacterial Activity of
Different Antibiotics Against Staphylococcus
aureus and Escherichia coli” the
researchers discovered that:
“The antibacterial activities of penicillin G, amoxicillin,
erythromycin, clindamycin, and vancomycin were increased in the presence of
silver nano-particles (Ag-NPs) against both test strains.
The highest enhancing effects were observed for vancomycin,
amoxicillin, and penicillin G against S. aureus."
In
other words, the efficacy of powerful antibiotic drugs like erythromycin and clindamycin
against potentially deadly pathogens like Staphylococcus
aureus were increased when silver was used alongside them.
And
the efficacy of antibiotic drugs like penicillin G, amoxicillin and vancomycin
were increased by an even wider margin when silver was added.
More Research
Confirmation
So
why would adding antimicrobial silver increase the effectiveness of antibiotic
drugs?
Researchers
from the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology & Regenerative Medicine in
Spain think they’ve found the answer.
They
confirmed that nanosilver, when used in conjunction with antibiotic drugs like ampicillin,
produces an extremely strong synergistic effect against drug-resistant gram
positive and gram negative bacteria, largely because of a powerful “one-two
punch” the combination delivers.
Here's
a quote from their recent study:
“Recently…the synergetic effect of silver nanoparticles with
antibiotics has been studied combining silver nanoparticles with different
antibiotics like ampicillin, kanamycin, erythromycin and chloramphenicol
against gram positive and gram negative bacteria.
The antibacterial activities of these antibiotics increase in the
presence of silver nanoparticles against gram positive and gram negative
bacteria…
…The combination effect of nanosilver and ampicillin has more
potential compared to the other antibiotics and may be caused by both the cell
wall lysis action of the ampicillin and the DNA binding action of the silver
nanoparticles.
The antibiotic molecules contain many active groups such as
hydroxyl and amido groups, which react easily with silver nanoparticles by
chelation.
For this reason, the synergistic effect may be caused by the
bonding reaction with antibiotic and silver nanoparticles.”
In
other words, the researchers say molecules of the antimicrobial silver actually
bond with the antibiotic drug through a process of chelation.
Then
the antibiotic drug bursts the cell wall of the pathogen, while the antimicrobial
silver binds the pathogen’s DNA. This
combined action destroys the ability of the pathogen to infect.
Of
course, antimicrobial silver hasn’t been tested in conjunction with every
antibiotic drug on the face of the earth.
But the results from clinical studies conducted so far appear to be nothing
short of stellar.
And Even More Research
In
fact, in another study, titled
“Antibacterial Efficacy of Colloidal Silver Alone and In Combination With Other
Antibiotics on Isolates from Wound Infections,” published in Academic Journals, researchers further
confirmed that colloidal silver had a significant additive effect on many
antibiotics tested.
What’s
more, while there were very few antibiotic drugs which colloidal silver failed
to enhance the effectiveness of, even among those few there was nevertheless
“no antagonism” between the drugs tested and the colloidal silver.
In
other words, colloidal silver did not decrease
the effectiveness of the antibiotic drugs, even in the very few cases where it
failed to increase the effectiveness
of the drugs. In short, it didn’t interfere with the absorption or efficacy of
the drug in any case.
Of
course, the simple fact that antimicrobial silver kills drug-resistant pathogens
– with, or without antibiotic drugs
-- has been re-confirmed time after time.
As
recently stated in a 2010 clinical study published in the World Journal
of Microbiology and Biotechnology:
"Infections caused by drug-resistant microorganisms result in
significant increases in mortality, morbidity, and cost related to prolonged
treatments.
The antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles against some
drug-resistant bacteria has been established…
Hence, we challenged different drug-resistant pathogens of
clinical importance (multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas
aeruginosa, ampicillin-resistant Escherichia
coli O157:H7 and erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus
pyogenes) with a suspension of silver nanoparticles.
By means of a luciferase-based assay, it was determined that
silver nanoparticles:
(1) inactivate a panel of drug-resistant and drug-susceptible
bacteria (Gram positive and Gram negative),
(2) exert their antibacterial activity through a bactericidal
rather than bacteriostatic mechanism, and
(3) inhibit the bacterial growth rate from the time of first
contact between the bacteria and the nanoparticles."
-- World J Microbiol Biotechnol (2010) 26:615–621
This
is important, because it not only confirms the simple fact that silver inhibits
the growth rate of potentially deadly pathogens that have become resistant to
antibiotic drugs, it also confirms that it inactivates and then outright kills the drug-resistant pathogens.
The Critics
Of
course, some critics have issued dire warnings that colloidal silver interferes with the absorption and efficacy
of antibiotic drugs.
These
critics – often operating under the imprimatur of organizations with strong
ties to institutional medicine and big drug companies -- generally regurgitate
the warning from the FDA’s 2009 Consumer Advisory Bulletin, which states:
“…the use of silver-containing dietary supplements may interfere
with the body's absorption of some drugs, such as quinolone antibiotics
[ciprofloxacin (Cipro), norfloxacin (Noroxin), ofloxacin], tetracycline
antibiotics, thyroxine, and penacillamine (Cuprimine).”
But
in reality, there appears to be no documented evidence whatsoever for this
claim. At least, the FDA can’t provide
any.
In
fact, when I recently filed a Freedom of
Information Act Request with the FDA, asking them to document their claims that
ingesting colloidal silver could interfere with the absorption of certain antibiotic
drugs and other types of drugs, they had to admit they had no
evidence whatsoever for their claims!
The
bottom line is that to date, there’s no significant evidence for the
long-standing claim that colloidal silver usage can interfere with the absorption
or efficacy of antibiotic drugs.
It
appears to be a completely fabricated claim, perhaps designed by medical
bureaucrats to scare the bejabbers out of colloidal silver users.
And
unfortunately, it is regurgitated ad
nauseum by organizations with close ties to institutional medicine and Big
Pharma, such as WebMD.com, MayoClinic.com, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center and even Livestrong.com, among others.
In
Conclusion…
As
you’ve seen above there’s plenty of solid clinical evidence that colloidal
silver works synergistically with many antibiotic drugs, and even noticeably increases
the effectiveness of many of them.
There’s
also a plethora of evidence demonstrating that in many cases antimicrobial
silver can even restore the effectiveness of antibiotic drugs against potentially
deadly drug-resistant pathogens.
If
these clinical findings are followed up on, they portend great hope for victims
of deadly, antibiotic-resistant pathogens that now kill over 94,000 Americans
each and every year, as well as hundreds of thousands more worldwide.
While
colloidal silver itself would probably do the job in many cases, the medical
establishment is not going to allow that to happen since colloidal silver
cannot be patented and monopolized by Big Pharma.
However,
combining antibiotic drugs with some form of antimicrobial silver is something
the medical establishment might well go for, since the result would be
considered a “novel invention” that can be patented.
(See
my article on one new “Frankensilver”
drug now in development.)
And
if saving lives is the goal, then I suppose this is something we can look
forward to. After all, it will ultimately
bring colloidal silver even more strongly into the limelight, in terms of its
infection-fighting capabilities.
To
learn how to make your own high-quality colloidal silver, quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of your own home,
for less than 36 cents a quart, just
click the link in this sentence.
Meanwhile,
I’ll be back next week with another great article on colloidal silver…
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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