According to the National Institutes
of Health, the disease is caused by a defective gene that in turn causes the
body to produce copious amounts of abnormally thick and sticky mucus.
The mucus tends to build up in the
lungs, digestive tract and other areas of the body, often resulting in
life-threatening infections that must be treated with higher-than-usual doses
of antibiotics.
The condition is so serious that most
people afflicted with it have dramatically shortened life spans. Indeed, the average lifespan for Cystic
Fibrosis victims who make it to adulthood is only about 37 years.
Death is usually caused by lung
complications as the infections grow more and more difficult to control over
time.
Hi, Steve
Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
Unfortunately,
there’s very little research available on the use of colloidal silver for
victims of Cystic Fibrosis. But what
little research is available is quite interesting.
In some
cases, at least, colloidal silver has been demonstrated to stop the chronic
lung infections so often associated with the disease, even when prescription
antibiotics were failing to work.
Here’s an
article titled “Colloidal Silver, Cystic
Fibrosis and Lung Disease,” in which a young child afflicted with severe
antibiotic-resistant infections from the dread disease was able to return to a
fairly normal life after his parents began treating him with small amounts of
colloidal silver daily, ingested orally.
Here’s a link to the actual
clinical study discussed in the above article. The doctors were so fascinated with the young
child’s astonishing results with colloidal silver, they wrote up the case and
had it published in the Journal of the
Royal Society of Medicine so other specialists would know about it:
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Connection
The article
at the following link, titled Colloidal
Silver, Allergies and Inflammation, discusses recent research demonstrating
that in some cases, a pathogen known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa can
trigger serious lung infections and inflammatory allergic reactions.
This is
important because, as medical specialists know, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is
“frequently isolated in the lungs of Cystic Fibrosis patients.”
What’s more, as
the following article on Colloidal Silver and
Pseudomonas Infections points out, additional recent research demonstrates
this pathogen is extremely susceptible to colloidal silver.
Nebulizing Colloidal Silver
In an animal
study conducted at the Washington University School of Medicine and presented
at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic
Society, it was demonstrated that inhalation of tiny silver nanoparticles
protected mice that had been infected with Pseudomona
aeroginosa.
According to
an article at this link, “Researchers infected a group of
mice with the bacteria Pseudomona aeroginosa, a common cause of
bacterial pneumonia in humans, especially those on ventilators, those with
cystic fibrosis or those with compromised immune systems.”
The mice were
allowed to inhale the aerosolized silver particles once per day, while a
control group of similarly infected mice inhaled only a placebo.
The mice that
inhaled the antimicrobial silver particles ended up with “significantly lower
concentrations of bacteria in their lungs than the mice inhaling placebo
nanoparticles.”
What’s
more, all of the infected mice that were given the silver nanoparticles
survived the infection, whereas none
of the mice given the placebo nanoparticles survived.
This leaves
wide open the speculation that stubborn Pseudomonas
lung infections so frequently found in Cystic Fibrosis patients might be healed
by inhaling colloidal silver through a
medical nebulizer –
-- a process,
which, by the way, should only be conducted under the supervision of a medical
specialist who can monitor lung function carefully and make sure no harm is
being caused by the silver itself.
Other Pathogens
Of course,
there are many other pathogens that can create havoc for victims of Cystic
Fibrosis.
And while
there’s little clinical information on these pathogens in relation to colloidal
silver, there are a number of Cystic Fibrosis patients who have discovered
colloidal silver for themselves, and have found it to be extremely helpful for
their condition.
Naturally,
anecdotal accounts are not the same as scientific evidence. But here is an example of what some people
are saying on online Cystic Fibrosis boards:
"My
'normal' bugs are Staph A, and Achromobactor X. I also culture Aspergillis from
time to time.
This
past April I learned about using colloidal silver (i.e., the ionic form) through
a nebulizer, and I started inhaling about 4 mls a day for about two weeks.
My
next two cultures no longer had Achromobactor. But I stopped using the colloidal
silver, and it came back.
Over
the course of the summer, I cultured many new things for the first time
including Stenotroptamonas and Burkholderia cepacia.
I
spent 17 weeks on IV antibiotics and all the bugs were still showing up, I had
enough and got my PICC line pulled. Two days later I was sick again.
I
started the silver again, this time using 5 mls twice a day in my nebulizer (no
other form antibiotics at all).
Within
a couple days I was feeling good again. Four weeks later I went back to clinic
and my culture showed 'light growth Aspergillis'. That's all!
Sorry
for the long rant, but silver is amazing stuff!!"
Again, admittedly,
anecdotal information is not the same as clinical evidence.
But the
bottom line is that there are some Cystic Fibrosis patients who are finding the
use of colloidal silver to be very helpful in keeping microbial growth in check
Dearth of Information
Unfortunately,
there’s not much more information available on colloidal silver and Cystic
Fibrosis.
But any
doctor having trouble controlling infections in a Cystic Fibrosis patient might
want to take a look at the available evidence, and weigh whether or not trying
colloidal silver either through a nebulizer as discussed above, or orally as discussed
in the first study linked to at the beginning of this article, might be
helpful.
In general,
colloidal silver can safely be taken in conjunction with antibiotic drugs. However, the FDA warns, with some
equivocation, that colloidal silver “may” interfere with the absorption of quinolone
class antibiotics as well as tetracycline.
(The FDA’s
answer to my Freedom of Information Act request on this claim was less than
stellar; turns out they had no corroborating information whatsoever to back up
their claims that colloidal silver “may” interfere with the absorption of these
antibiotics. See “FDA
Admits: No Proof Colloidal Silver Interferes
With Drug Absorption”.)
Indeed, as
demonstrated in the famous BYU Medical Center study, in many cases colloidal silver has a
demonstrable additive effect on
antibiotic drugs, which is to say, it tends to increase the efficacy of
antibiotic drugs that have lost their effectiveness against certain
pathogens.
Cystic
Fibrosis patients may want to present this information to their specialist for
further analysis and consideration.
Meanwhile,
I’ll be back next week with another eye-opening 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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