Crohn’s disease is an
inflammatory bowel disease that usually affects the intestines, but may occur
anywhere from the mouth to the end of the rectum.
It’s characterized by
abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and weight loss, but more importantly, by
intense and chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
Some Crohn’s patients
have found significant relief from using colloidal silver, which should, of
course, be of no surprise, since colloidal silver is known to be highly
anti-inflammatory.
But another reason
colloidal silver may be so effective is that it kills infection-causing
bacteria, and as you’ll see in the article below, many researchers now believe
Crohn’s disease does indeed an infectious basis.
Here’s what we know so
far, including what at least some Crohn’s patients are saying about the
benefits of their regular colloidal silver usage…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
Here's an excerpt from an interesting news
article on the possibility of infections from bacteria found in shower stalls
that could be a cause of Crohn's disease. According to the news article:
“Bathroom showers may spread harmful bacteria which could trigger
Crohn’s disease, scientists believe.
Experts
are advising that water be run for a short period before getting in to wash
away the a pathogen which may be lurking in shower heads and pipes.
The
bacteria -- mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis -- causes Johne’s
disease in animals, particularly cattle, and is significantly associated with
Crohn’s disease (CD) in humans.
Researchers
at Lancaster University found the bacteria in one in 10 domestic showers they
tested across the country.
…Professor
Roger Pickup, from Lancaster University’s Faculty of Health and Medicine, said:
“We have found mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in showers for
the first time.
“It
comes through the water system and with the other bacteria forms a biofilm in
the shower tube and then this grows and gets washed off and comes through in
the shower water.
“We
recommend that in line with precautions against Legionnaires’ Disease, that
showers should be run for a short period before use, particularly those that
have not been used for a while.”
The article further goes on to explain that in children,
Crohn’s disease often starts out with a cough and mild inflammation of the
throat and lungs, adding further credence to the idea that inhaling the
bacteria through water spray in the shower might be a cause of the
disease.
The article ends with the statement, “Almost everyone diagnosed with the disease has been found to also be
infected with the bacteria.”
Would Colloidal
Silver Help?
Colloidal silver is also known, anecdotally, to help cure
many forms of food poisoning as well as other types of stomach infections.
So if Crohn’s disease is indeed caused by a chronic stomach
infection, colloidal silver just might work for that, as well. (See “Colloidal Silver and Food Poisoning,
Stomach Infections or ‘Stomach Flu’” at this
link, as well as “Colloidal Silver and Ulcers” at this link and “Colloidal
Silver and H. pylori” at this
link.)
The so-called MAP bacteria discussed in the news article
above is a tuberculosis-type bacteria, and silver has been demonstrated to be
very effective against tuberculosis in at least one clinical
study. So it sure would be
interesting to see if colloidal silver would help Crohn's victims, as well.
And since Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, it makes me wonder if the
anti-inflammatory benefits of colloidal silver would be helpful to Crohn’s
patients.
After all, many victims of Cystic Fibrosis -- an
inflammatory lung disease -- find
colloidal silver to be extremely helpful at reducing the lung inflammation (see
documentation here).
What’s more, colloidal silver is clinically known to reduce
excessively high cytokine expression (which causes inflammation), as well.
Indeed, researchers
have demonstrated that antimicrobial silver has such a strong modulating (or
calming) effect on cytokine expression, the result after using it is both reduced
inflammation and dramatically increased healing.
According to the
authors of one study, "It has been shown in vivo that silver nanoparticles act
to decrease inflammation through cytokine modulation."
What’s more, the
study authors concluded, “These experimental data suggest
that nano-silver could be used to treat immunologic and inflammatory
diseases.”
Excessive cytokine production and the resulting stubborn
inflammation is usually a result of immune system overreaction to chronic
infection or serious wound trauma. It almost always impedes healing.
The fact that antimicrobial silver works to calm this immune
system overreaction, thereby promoting speedier healing, means it has immunomodulatory effects
that are extremely beneficial.
So it would not surprise me in the least to find out that
colloidal silver is beneficial for Crohn’s victims, both as an
anti-inflammatory agent, as well as to kill the offending causative pathogen
itself.
What Some Crohn’s
Patients
Are Saying About
Colloidal Silver
Unfortunately, there's no clinical data that I know of, on
the use of colloidal silver for Crohn's.
However, some Crohn's patients have used colloidal silver on their own,
as a critical nutritional adjunct to their diet.
From what I've heard from those who have used it, the
results have been mixed, with some people reporting extraordinarily good
results, and some people reporting no significant good results at all.
Here's a very lengthy testimonial from a gentleman on an online
Crohn's forum. He titled his post, "Colloidal Silver Cured
My Crohn's Disease" and claims he takes only about one-third of an ounce
of colloidal silver several times a day to completely control his Crohn's
symptoms:
"I
have been without symptoms and off medication for 2 months now. I signed on
specifically to tell you guys about this, since it’s had such a positive result
for me. Firstly, a bit of background information so you don’t think I'm
scamming you.
I
can remember having isolated cases of extreme gut pain since about age 8. As I
entered my teen years, what I thought to be ‘stomach’ pain started affecting me
on a more regular basis and having a measurable impact on my life.
I
would go through spells where I would suddenly be struck with extreme stomach
cramps, then the pain would gradually fade away, only to return ten minutes
later.
I
sat on the bench at lunch some days, scrunched up in agony. I was abnormally
skinny. My parents and I decided that
something had to be done about this ‘stomach pain’.
We
went to see a range of GP's, all of which had different ideas. One said it was
food allergy. The other suspected some sort of bacterial infection, only to see
the stool sample turn up negative.
We
went to a specialist of some description, who thought it might be a stomach
ulcer and put me on medication. Then he said it had something to do with the
way I breathed in my sleep.
Nothing
worked. I hated being a toothpick, and I was getting gas now too, but still I
thought it was something menial like IBS, and I was just imagining things.
I
got put on a 3 month waiting list for an entroscopy and colonoscopy; but by
then I started getting blood tests which revealed that I had a serious iron
deficiency. The doctor said I was bleeding from the inside, and I was
fast-tracked to the front of the waiting list.
After
the tests, the doctor said it looked like something called Crohn’s disease,
which I didnt know anything about at the time.
I
thought ‘Great, now I know what it is, they can fix me with medication.’ But it wasn’t that simple,
unfortunately. I got put on mesalazine
and budesanide, which didn’t seem to have much of an effect.
Prednisalone
did: it fixed me up completely and I felt great. For a month.
But then as soon as I came off the preds I started getting worse again.
My doctor then put me on azathioprine.
I
went on two courses of preds before I heard about a ‘quack’ medicine called
colloidal silver: microscopic silver particles infused in water. I thought it
was a load of new age rubbish, like acupuncture or homeopathy or something. But
it was readily available from pharmacies, I and I thought hell, what have I got
to lose?
So
I bought a bottle. After a week, the pain had subsided dramatically, and I was
no longer plagued by the bloatedness and gas. Coincidence, I thought. This was
just one of those brief periods of reduced symptoms.
But
I kept drinking the silver. 10 ml in the morning and before bed. I felt great!
I felt like a new man, just like I had felt on the preds only I could take this
stuff indefinitely. So I did.
I
felt so good that I went off the azathioprine against the will of my parents
and without telling my doctor. Kind of risky, but I felt the azathioprine was
doing nothing except making me feel tired.
The
pain didn’t come back. A month passed. Then another. I have been off all
medication except the two mouthfulls of colloidal silver I take daily, and the
symptoms are 99% gone.
I
have to admit, that this unheard of ‘quack’ medicine did what whole handfuls of
side effect laden pills couldn’t do in a year has somewhat destroyed my faith
in the pharmaceutical companies and ’modern medicine’ as a whole.
I
don’t know if it works for everyone. Keep in mind I never had diarrhea because
of my Crohn’s disease so maybe that comes into the equation. But hey, like me
you have nothing to lose; you owe it to yourselves to at least try a
bottle."
Here's another testimonial on Crohn's and colloidal silver
from the Utopia Silver web site:
"Our
son has Crohn's . The only thing that let him live a normal life was a steroid.
You can't stay on them forever. He ended up with Pancreatitis from them.
They
then put him on asacol and imordal. They
helped some. Someone suggested he try
colloidal silver. In less than a month
he was off all medicines. He takes the silver 2 to 3 times a day and it
controls the pains.
He
now lives a normal life. If the pains start up he just takes an extra dose of
colloidal silver. His Dr. sees him every 6 months. He has been on the silver 7
months.
It
also has helped us with colds and sore throats. I also know of a young girl in
her 20's that has endometriosis and finds the silver helps with the pain."
Quite frankly, there are lots
of these kinds of testimonials all over the internet, some very positive like
the above two, and others saying colloidal silver did not work as well for them.
If you suffer from Crohn's disease, probably the only way to
know for sure whether or not colloidal silver would be helpful for you, would be to buy a bottle and give
it a try (under your doctor’s supervision, of course).
Where to Obtain
High-Quality Colloidal Silver
Colloidal silver is available in almost every health food
store in America. It's also available
online at Amazon.com or SwansonVitamins.com, or many other websites.
Some people prefer the Sovereign Silver brand, at about 10
ppm concentration. And others prefer the
ASAP Colloidal Silver brand, at 24 ppm concentration. They're both widely considered to be
excellent choices.
If you try colloidal silver and find that it helps you
overcome your Crohn’s symptoms, you’ll then likely want to look into purchasing
a home colloidal silver
generator so you can make your own colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart, rather than
paying $20 or $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle at health food stores.
By making your own high-quality colloidal silver so
inexpensively, you’ll also be able to use colloidal silver for its many
disinfectant qualities, such as:
- Spray colloidal silver onto kitchen counter tops to kill germs, mold, mildew and other microbes
- Soak your store-bought fruits and vegetables in it to eradicate potentially harmful bacteria and fungus from the food surfaces
- Clean and decontaminate faucets, door knobs, and other contact surfaces such as your kitchen cutting board or that filthy blade on your kitchen can opener
- Add a couple of ounces to your daily laundry as a natural antiseptic agent that will keep clothes, bath towels, dish rags, and other fabrics fresh and germ-free for weeks on end
- Soak your toothbrush in it to prevent microbial contamination
- Spray it around sinks, bathtubs and other surfaces to stop mold and mildew in its tracks
- Add it to your pet’s water bowl to resolve internal infections and help prevent illness
- Gargle with it to eradicate sore throats
- Put it into a spray atomizer and sniff it up your nose to eliminate sinus infections
- Add a drop or two into your eyes to stop Pink Eye or styes in a single afternoon
- Spray your store-bought meats and other fresh foods with colloidal silver before refrigerating, to kill any nasty pathogens such as MRSA on the food surfaces
- Spray it topically onto cuts and burns for prevention of infection and to stimulate rapid wound healing
And, of course, you
can safely use colloidal silver internally to stop colds and flu in
their tracks… alleviate intestinal infections…stop urinary tract
infections…cure upper respiratory infections…wipe out infection-based prostate
problems…and much, much more!
Get Educated
· To learn how tens of thousands of people are curing their own
infections with safe, natural colloidal silver, see the real-life colloidal
silver success stories at this link.
· To learn how truly simple it is to make your own high-quality colloidal
silver for less than 36 cents
a quart, click here.
· To learn what makes the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator
superior to conventional colloidal silver generators, click here.
· To save $100 on a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, click here.
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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