Is Colloidal Silver Safe For Sick Pregnant Woman?

Posting Date: 02/08/1999

Beth: My friend is six months pregnant and has been sick from different viruses and a sinus infection during her pregnancy. A friend told her that colloidal silver would help her. Can you tell us if it is safe and what it does?

Dr. Dean: Why is it that so many of us are willing to give credibility to and are willing to risk taking something very dangerous to our health, just on the recommendation of a friend, or a friend of a friend?

Tell her to absolutely not go near this, unless, of course, she wants to have a silver baby, which I highly doubt. No one should take this, let alone, a pregnant woman. I have never seen anything published establishing the safety of colloidal silver.

The use of colloidal silver dates back well before WWII. Silver has a reputation from the past of being an antiseptic, which it is. They also used silver in the form of silver nitrate and placed it in the eyes of newborns to prevent trachoma and other eye infections. The dosages they used were low and not likely to be dangerous.

A listener in the Northeast calls us to warn others about the damage that results from taking colloidal silver whenever she hears us discussing it on the show. Her skin has turned permanently silver from taking it, a result of the deposition of the silver in her skin. She looks like a Tin Man. If you take too much of it, that can and will happen. She is continually pestering Congress to have it outlawed.

You'll hear it mentioned among the health food set, by people constantly searching for new things to peddle to people who don't need them.

Our bodies are perfectly capable of taking care of a flu or a cold. In this country, we think that we have to treat every little thing, and we doctors are just as guilty of this as the public is.

Your friend must not go near that product. It should be taken off of the market and that's all there is to it.

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