According to WebMD.com, “Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a viral illness that causes sores
in or on the mouth and
on the hands, feet, and
sometimes the buttocks and legs.”
WebMD goes on to say
that Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is “most common in children, but can also
occur in adults.”
Caused by a virus from
the Enterovirus class (which includes Coxsackie A virus) infected individuals
can pass the virus to others by coming into close touch with them. Or the virus can be picked up by an
individual when he touches an object that’s previously been handled by an
infected person.
The initial symptoms generally
mimic a cold or flu onset, and can include fatigue, sore throat and fever. But these are usually followed within a few
days by sores or blisters on the mouth, hands, feet and sometimes the
buttocks.
Will colloidal silver
help fight the symptoms of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? Many people claim it’s worked wonders for
them. Here are just a few exciting examples…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
I’ve been using colloidal silver for over 20 years now. And in all of that time I’ve never had the
opportunity to use colloidal silver for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
Nor have I seen any in
vivo clinical evidence (i.e., clinical studies conducted on humans) to
support the idea that colloidal silver would be useful for Hand, Foot and Mouth
Disease.
Nevertheless, many parents claim colloidal silver worked
wonders for them when their children came down with Hand, Foot and Mouth
Disease. Here are just a few examples:
A member of the Colloidal
Silver Secrets Community on Facebook named Patti R. recently posted the
following comment:
“I
used colloidal silver to treat my son 24 hrs after onset of hand, foot, mouth
disease (a virus). By 36 hours after treating 2-3 times a day of 1 tsp dose and
gargling, all blisters in mouth were gone and he was eating!!! Colloidal silver
WORKS!!”
When I wrote back and asked her for more details, she
replied:
“My
son was about 8 yrs old. Symptoms began with a high fever on a Tuesday at 5:00
pm. The following day, when I returned home from work, I saw the blisters in
his throat and thought it was strep.
But
I took him to the doctor at that time, who then diagnosed it as hand, foot,
mouth disease.
When
we returned home, I began a dose of 1 tsp silver (swallow) and to gargle and
rinse mouth with it also. He had 2 doses that night and 2 before lunch on
Thursday. I saw him at lunchtime on Thursday and offered him ANYTHING to
eat.....milkshake, anything. He said no, his mouth hurt.
When
I returned home from work that afternoon at 5:00 pm, I asked him if there was
anything he would like to eat for supper (believing he still couldn't eat). He
responded "French fries" and he was back to normal.
My
husband and I both have BS degrees, and were teachers in the science fields. I
have been using colloidal silver ever since. I would take it when stomach virus
would run rampant in the school...I never got sick. I am a very big believer in
colloidal silver.”
So apparently, success was obtained by giving the eight year
old child three teaspoons full of colloidal silver the day after the outbreak
began, and two teaspoons full of colloidal silver the next day. And then the child was back to normal.
More Experiential
Evidence
On the EarthClinic.com website (one of my favorite natural
health websites), they have a page on “Hand Foot and Mouth Disease Symptoms and
Remedies” which states, “Colloidal silver
treats the condition and prevents it from returning.”
One of their readers commented:
“I had a friend whose daughter had contracted Hand Foot and Mouth
disease at daycare. We had spoken to a few people and someone suggested trying
Colloidal Silver. I told her to try it because the doctor would not give her
anything.
Within
two days her daughter was a lot better and the symptoms of the Hand Foot and
Mouth had gone. My friend is still giving her daughter the Colloidal Silver to
stop it from coming back. We have looked into colloidal silver and apparently it’s
great for all viral infections and internal parasites!”
Another reader commented:
"My
8 year old son contracted Hand/foot/mouth from school...Had large sore blisters
on the side of his tongue.
I
gave him 2 doses of colloidal silver for two days. It stopped more blisters
from forming and the others began to heal immediately.
His
older brother is a diabetic and just formed a few spots around his lips - I
gave him 1 dose yesterday and today there are no new spots formed. (I ran out
of silver so am off to get more!)”
On the Raising Natural Kids blog page on Hand, Foot and
Mouth Disease, one reader wrote in:
“Colloidal silver got rid of the blisters within 24 hours.”
On the Modern Alternative Mama website, a reader commented
about her 9-year old son’s case of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, saying:
“…my 9 year old son picked this up I’m guessing at the skating rink for a
birthday party. He complains of the blisters being itchy as well. We are using
colloidal silver and it kept the blisters from spreading. They never made it to
his mouth, thank God!! You may want to give it a try.”
On the Wellness and Toys website, in an article titled “Hand
Foot and Mouth Disease Treatment and Simple Solutions for Relief,” the author
states:
“Colloidal
silver fights viruses and can be a good treatment. You can put it in
a spray bottle and spray the blisters and you can swish in the mouth and gargle
and then swallow to help internally. Most report rapid recovery using
colloidal silver.”
And a reader on that same web page commented:
“…as
soon as my daughter started with a fever we put her on colloidal silver.
A few days later she had a few spots on her legs. Then some on her face,
hands, and feet. Thankfully the spots never got very big or bothered her
and I know it is because we had her on colloidal silver from the moment she had
a fever.
And
thankfully it never went around to the rest of us! We also put silver on each
spot as well. After seeing what some other kids went through, hers was
nothing compared to what it could have been!”
On the From Faye blog, in the comments on an article about
Natural Treatments for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, one reader stated:
“My
9 year old has this at the moment. Monday, his hands had blisters. Tuesday, his
feet. Wednesday, his legs. This morning, his arms and stomach. I'm afraid
tomorrow they will be in his mouth. We are now trying colloidal silver. I will
update to let you know how/if it works.”
Five days later that same reader commented again:
“The colloidal silver kept the blisters from spreading any further! No
mouth sores!!!”
So there are clearly some interesting experiential success
stories demonstrating that colloidal silver is indeed helpful for Hand, Foot
and Mouth Disease outbreaks.
Of course, this should not
surprising, since Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks are caused by a virus, and thousands of colloidal silver
users worldwide have testified that colloidal silver has been extremely
effective against a wide variety of other types of viral outbreaks, including:
I have to emphasize here that there’s practically zero clinical
research evidence for the use of colloidal silver against viral outbreaks
such as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.
Nor is there much in vivo clinical
evidence (i.e., human studies) for the use of colloidal silver against any other
type of viral outbreak, either.
But if you click on the above links, you can read the
articles associated with each type of viral outbreak mentioned, and there you’ll
see that in spite of the dearth of clinical evidence, people nevertheless swear
by the use of colloidal silver for such viral outbreaks.
Treating Hand, Foot
and Mouth Disease
With Colloidal Silver
For topical viral outbreaks such as Hand, Foot and Mouth
Disease, as well as others, many people tell me they’ve had great success using
a good topical commercial colloidal silver gel product such as ASAP Ultimate
Skin & Body Care Gel with 24 ppm colloidal silver, or Curad Silver Solution
First Aid Antimicrobial Gel with 55 ppm silver chloride.
Both of the above-mentioned commercial colloidal silver gel
products are available on Amazon.com.
What’s more, the Curad Silver Solution First Aid Antimicrobial Gel,
which is made by the famous band-aid maker, is often available at Walgreen’s
pharmacies, as well.
You can also make your own homemade high-quality colloidal
silver gel by mixing liquid colloidal silver and aloe vera gel together, as
demonstrated in the following video: Make
Your Own Colloidal Silver Gel and Colloidal Silver Soap
If you can’t obtain a good, commercial colloidal silver gel
for the topical treatment, or make your own colloidal silver gel, you can always
apply any standard liquid colloidal silver product topically, using either a
pump spray bottle to spray the topical outbreaks four or five times a day and
allowing it to air dry, or simply by applying some liquid colloidal silver to a
cotton ball and dabbing it gently onto the viral blisters multiple times a day
and allowing it to air dry.
However, many people swear by the topical gels for the viral
skin outbreaks, since the gel tends to keep the silver in direct contact with
the skin eruptions for a longer period of time compared to simply spraying them
with a liquid colloidal silver product.
Obviously, never give anyone colloidal silver gel
internally. It’s for topical use only. For internal colloidal silver use such as
described in the earlier testimonials, most people turn to a good, commercial liquid
colloidal silver product, such as Sovereign Silver or ASAP Colloidal Silver
Solution (the two most popular brands in America), both of which are available
on Amazon.
Or, rather than paying $20 to $30 per tiny four-ounce bottle
of commercial brands of colloidal silver, you can always make your own
high-quality colloidal silver for less
than 36 cents a quart, with a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver
Generator from The Silver Edge.
Internal (Oral) Dosages
As for internal dosages of liquid colloidal silver, most
adults who have experienced bouts of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease tell me
they’ve taken one ounce of 10 ppm strength liquid colloidal silver, orally, up to four times a day during the course
of the outbreak, while also treating any topical skin eruptions with a good
colloidal silver gel product as mentioned above.
Children are usually given one-quarter the adult oral dosage,
or between two to four teaspoons full daily for several days until the viral
outbreaks clear up.
I have to admit, I’m always reluctant to comment on giving
colloidal silver orally to young children, because of liability. You just don’t know when a child might be
allergic to internal colloidal silver usage.
So parents need to be aware, and watch for the tell-tale signs of a
silver allergy, i.e., reddish skin rashes.
Allergic reactions to colloidal silver are extremely rare;
I’ve only heard of one case in a
child, and one case in an adult, in
over 20 years of interviewing literally thousands of colloidal silver users for
my book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual.
But as rare as they are, allergies to
colloidal silver can indeed happen,
resulting in reddish skin rashes that generally go away within 24-48 hours
after oral colloidal silver usage is discontinued.
Another point to keep in mind is that children's bodies are
still in development, so they're quite different compared to an adult body.
Functions that are fully formed in adults -- such as the mechanism for
transporting, utilizing and afterwards excreting silver -- might not be fully
formed or fully functional in young children.
So it’s important, in my opinion, not to give colloidal silver orally to young children on a regular
daily basis for long periods of time. My
personal layman’s opinion is to take the child to a licensed naturopath (i.e.,
natural health doctor) who’s experienced in colloidal silver usage.
The naturopath can properly diagnose the child, prescribe the
proper dosage of colloidal silver and then monitor the child to make sure the
dosage is working well and there's no other problems developing.
Nevertheless, I know that many, many parents give their
children colloidal silver as their "go to" remedy for childhood infections.
I did so myself when my children were young, on an occasional “as needed”
basis.
As an example, here’s a testimonial from a mother of a six
children who's an herbalist studying to be a naturopath. She wrote:
"I'm
an herbalist and currently working towards my B.S in Alternative Medicine. I'm
quite comfortable using colloidal silver for my 6 children, including my
youngest who is 4 1/2 months. I dose it accurately, based on the ppm of the
colloidal silver product I’m using and their body weight [learn more about
dosing by body weight in the free Colloidal Silver Safe Dosage Report -- ED) and I only use it 3 times a day for a few days at most on the
rare occasion they're ill."
Keep in mind that in the very first testimonial about using
colloidal silver for Hand, foot and Mouth Disease earlier in this article, the
parent stated they only had to give their eight year old child three teaspoons
full of colloidal silver the first day, and two the next, before the child was
back to normal. That seems perfectly
reasonable to me for an eight year old child.
But please keep in mind I’m not a doctor. So please
don’t take anything you’ve read in this article as being “prescriptive” in
nature. As a natural health journalist,
I’m just reporting on what I’ve learned as I’ve researched this article
topic.
Again, my personal position when it comes to childhood
infections and colloidal silver is to take the child to a licensed naturopath (i.e.,
natural health doctor) who’s experienced in colloidal silver usage and allow
the expert to diagnose and prescribe.
How
to Make Your Own
Micro-Particle
Colloidal Silver
Whether you use colloidal silver
topically and/or internally to help get rid of viral warts…or as a daily
prophylactic to help ward off colds, flu and other upper respiratory infections
(learn more, here)…or for more serious and
potentially life-threatening infections (see here)…or for its many other healing and immune-boosting benefits
(see here)… one thing you likely know for
sure is that it’s quite expensive to buy from health food stores.
Indeed, in most major health food stores colloidal silver usually costs between $25 to $30 for a tiny, four-ounce bottle.
But owning a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge allows you to make your own superior-quality colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart. Yes, I said 36 cents per quart.
That’s
just a tad over a penny per ounce,
compared to the outrageous $7 to $8 per ounce charged for colloidal silver in
health food stores!
In
fact, compared to health food store prices of colloidal silver, your very first
one-quart batch of micro-particle colloidal silver virtually pays for the
entire cost your new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator!
You
see, a full quart of ionic colloidal silver consists of eight of those tiny four-ounce bottles you
can buy at health food stores for around $30 a bottle. That means you’d
have to pay up to $240 for a full quart of colloidal silver in a health food
store.
But you
can spend about that same amount of money on a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge – the
world’s #1 best-selling colloidal silver generator -- and make quart after quart after quart of superior-quality colloidal silver
for the rest of your life, for about 36 cents apiece!
Do you
know of any other product that pays for itself virtually the very first time you use it?
It’s
quite literally as close as you can come to enjoying free colloidal silver for the rest of your life, because
you’re making it yourself for
the same tiny cost the big colloidal silver manufacturers make it for before
distributing it to health food stores where it’s marked up by a whopping
60,000%! (Learn more here.)
Making
your own high-quality colloidal silver for just pennies per quart allows you to
use colloidal silver any time
you need, or even give it away to family members, friends or loved ones who
need it, without giving cost a second thought.
That’s
one good reason so many thousands upon thousands of people absolutely rave about
their Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, as you can see at this web page full of real-life reviews, testimonials and colloidal
silver success stories.
Discover
How Easy It Is…
If
you’d like to learn more about making your own high-quality colloidal silver
for just pennies per quart, you can…
- Read how unbelievably simple it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver for less than 36 cents a quart, here.
- Learn why the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is the world’s #1 best-selling colloidal silver generator, here.
- Find out how to save a whopping $100 on a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, 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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