The Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) is now warning that Carbapenem-Resistant
Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) – which include drug-resistant forms of Klebsiella
pneumonia and E. coli – are becoming “increasingly resistant” to antibiotic
drugs.
“CRE are nightmare
bacteria. Our strongest antibiotics don’t work and patients are left with
potentially untreatable infections,” says CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
Thankfully,
preliminary research has demonstrated that colloidal silver and other forms of
antimicrobial silver are astonishingly effective against these pathogens. Here’s what you need to know…
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now calling for the
entire U.S. health care community to work urgently – individually, regionally
and nationally – to protect patients against infection by the new Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
(CRE) pathogens.
These lethal, drug-resistant pathogens are now spreading
throughout hospital environments nationwide (and worldwide), killing up to 50%
of all patients who end up with blood-borne infections.
According to the most recent CDC bulletin:
“Data
show more inpatients suffering infections from bacteria resistant to all or
nearly all antibiotics.
The
bacteria…kill up to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from them.
In
addition to spreading among patients, often on the hands of health care
personnel, CRE bacteria can transfer their resistance to other bacteria within
their family.”
The New York Times
also chimed in on the issue, warning in this
news article:
“The
bacteria, normally found in the gut, have acquired a lethal trait: they are
unscathed by antibiotics, including carbapenems, a group of drugs that are
generally considered a last resort.
When
these resistant germs invade parts of the body where they do not belong, like
the bloodstream, lungs or urinary tract, the illness may be untreatable.
The
death rate from bloodstream infections can reach 50 percent.”
Stay Out of Hospitals
Of course, the smartest thing to do in order to avoid becoming
infected by this deadly group of pathogens is to stay the heck out of hospitals,
where they are chiefly spread on the hands and gowns of hospital workers.
But if a hospital stay is unavoidable, colloidal silver may
well be your one big hope of survival.
Indeed, if a hospital stay is in your near future, you might
want to review my previous article
titled “Colloidal Silver and
Hospital-Acquired Infections: What You Can Do to Protect
Yourself!”
And you might also want to review my previous article
“Colloidal Silver and Airborne MRSA Pathogens” which discusses the “Cool Mist
Vaporizer” trick for keeping hospital rooms (and homes) antiseptically clean using
colloidal silver.
Early Warning
I warned of the spread of CRE pathogens way back in May,
2011, well before most health authorities were aware of this class of pathogens.
Back then, doctors thought there was only one form, which
they had dubbed “CRKP,” which stands for Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumonia. (Carbapenem, of course, is the so-called
“antibiotic drug of last resort.)
Today, doctors are aware that other bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family have joined
the ranks Carbapenem-resistant pathogens, including some forms of E. coli, as mentioned earlier.
So they have now changed the name from “CRKP” to the more
inclusive “CRE,” which stands for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
Silver’s
Effectiveness Against Klebsiella
As I explained in my previous article, “Colloidal Silver and the Deadly
Super-pathogen CRPK,” preliminary lab research indicates colloidal
silver is astonishingly effective against the Klebsiella pneumonia pathogen.
In fact, up to 75% of antibiotic-resistant strains of the
Klebsiella pathogen were stopped cold by silver-based antimicrobials.
And even when silver didn’t kill the pathogen, it completely disabled it, preventing it
from becoming infectious.
According to the Physicians
Guide to Natural Health Products that Work, by James Howenstine, M.D.,
colloidal silver has indeed been demonstrated to be effective against the
Klebsiella pathogen:
“…colloidal silver preparations that contains between 20 and 25
parts of silver per million parts of water…
…[have] proven effective…in quickly resolving pneumonias due to
pneumocystis, streptococcal, staphylococcal, klebsiella and fungal
infections.
In the hospital, the therapy is administered by a special
nebulizer as well as orally."
-- Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work, by James
Howenstine, M.D., pg 262
And according to a nurse who posted to the internet about
her experience after contracting CRKP:
“For me colloidal silver was a life
saver when I contracted a serious form of pneumonia from the CRKP bacteria, or
Carbepenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia,
after taking care of two patients who were suspected of having it.”
The nurse went on to explain that she used a medical
nebulizer to inhale the colloidal silver into her lungs, and thus get it into
the bloodstream. (To learn how to use
colloidal silver with a nebulizer, see the article at the link.)
And according to a May, 1999 report from the Microbiology
Department of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when colloidal silver
was tested against Klebsellia pneumonia,
it took only 2.5 ppm to “inhibit and kill” the pathogen!
Here’s an excerpt from the report, written by David A.
Revilli, microbiologist, and Dr. Ron W. Leavitt, Ph.D., Professor of
Microbiology/Molecular Biology, both of BYU:
Klebsiella pneumoniae (lower respiratory tract infections,
nosocomial infections (infections spread in hospitals), urinary tract and wound
infections, and bacteremia) inhibited and killed @ 2.5 ppm. 1/28/99 BYU Report.
So the good news is that colloidal silver appears to be extremely
effective against at least one of the two Enterobacteriaceae
family pathogens that are now causing such consternation among Centers for
Disease Control medical bureaucrats.
And while this does not prove colloidal silver will be
effective against the latest Carbapenem-resistant
strains, it is certainly a strong enough indication for medical authorities
to follow through on.
More importantly, it’s a strong enough indication for you to keep in the back of your mind,
should you or a family member ever become infected with this particularly
deadly class of pathogens.
Silver’s
Effectiveness Against E. Coli
What’s more, the same types of past clinical results pretty
much holds true for the second Enterobacteriaceae
pathogen now causing fits among doctors and health authorities, i.e., the drug-resistant
forms of E. coli.
In fact, back in June 2011 when a deadly, drug-resistant
strain of the E. coli microbe was
sweeping across Europe, I wrote an article titled
“Colloidal Silver and E. Coli,” in
which I revealed that silver-based antimicrobials had indeed been demonstrated
to be effective against drug-resistant forms of the pathogen.
In that article, I revealed the seven clinical studies that
have demonstrated the effectiveness of silver-based products – including silver
ions, silver nanoparticles and colloidal silver -- against E. coli.
That included this study
titled “Colloidal Silver as a New Antimicrobial Agent,” which was published in
the International Journal of
Microbiological Research back in 2010.
The study authors concluded that colloidal silver exhibited
“powerful antimicrobial activity” against multi-drug resistant pathogens
including E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas
aregnosa and Salmonella typhi.
And in this study, titled “Bactericidal
Effect of Silver Nanoparticles Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria,” which
was published in 2010 in the World Journal of Microbiology and
Biotechnology, researchers found that the silver nanoparticles easily inactivated
drug-resistant bacteria, including E.
coli.
The researchers found that the tiny silver particles actually
began inhibiting the bacterial growth rate from the very first moment
of contact between the bacteria and the silver nanoparticles.
Finally, in another study,
titled “Antimicrobial Activity of Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles Prepared by
Sol-Gel Method,” published in 2011 in the Digest
Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures, it was reported that “all
tested microorganisms were completely inhibited at the concentration of 2–4
μg/ml of nano silver.”
This study included both the E. coli pathogen and the Klebsiella
pneumoniae pathogen, which were killed in the laboratory at 3 ppm and 4 ppm
colloidal silver, respectively!
In Conclusion…
So there you have it.
The preliminary evidence, based upon numerous past clinical
studies, is that colloidal silver has been demonstrated to be astonishingly effective
against drug-resistant strains of both Klebsiella
pneumoniae and E. coli.
These are the two Enterobacteriaceae
family pathogens that are now giving doctors fits worldwide, and causing the
deaths of up to 50% of all who end up with blood borne infections.
Therefore, colloidal silver may well turn out to be one of
the last lines of defense against the new “CRE” strains of these two pathogens
the health authorities are now fighting against.
Of course, it remains to be seen if medical science picks up
on this vital information on silver’s efficacy against drug-resistant strains
of these two pathogens, and follows through on it.
Oftentimes, brewing crises like this one seem to be
motivated more by pocketbook issues. In
other words, scare stories like this one are often used to justify why the big
drug companies should be paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer
monies to develop new antibiotic drugs.
(See my article
“Big Pharma Shuns Silver; Blackmails U.S. Government Into Paying for New
Antibiotic Drugs With Taxpayer Money” if you’d like to know more about the scam
of using taxpayer money to pay for new antibiotic drug development.)
Nevertheless, it’s important for you to have this crucial information
on silver’s efficacy against drug-resistant pathogens.
After all, you never know when it may come in handy, if only
to pass along to your own physician should you or a loved one end up with a
similar hospital-acquired infection!
I’ll be back next week with another great article on
colloidal silver.
Meanwhile, if you’re interested in learning how to make your
own high-quality colloidal silver –
in the comfort and privacy of your own home, for less than 36 cents a quart –
just click the link in this sentence.
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
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