In June, regulatory authorities warned consumers against using colloidal silver, now widely advertised on the internet as a powerful antimicrobial medication. By now this agent has internet chat groups, user sites, accounts of how silver has an honourable history going back to the middle ages, and sites selling devices for making one's own colloidal silver inexpensively at home. Prospective buyers are told to use silver at the first sign of a cold by rubbing it on to the oral and nasal mucosae. Other uses are listed in the form of an alphabet soup which includes acne, allergies, arthritis, athlete's foot, burns, cancer, Candida, chronic diarrhoea, cold, cuts, ear infections, emphysema, eye infections, flu, fungal infections, giardiasis, head lice, herpes, hepatitis B and C, hypertension, lyme disease, osteomyelitis, psoriasis, ringworm, sinusitis, skin infections, sores, surgery, throat infections, ulcerative colitis, urinary infections, warts, wounds, and yeast infections.
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