Colloidal Silver Controversy 6 In case of severe illness, a natural health practitioner may adjust the recommended dose. Colloidal Silver is eliminated from the body via five channels, the liver, kidney, skin, lungs and bowels just in case the body is overloaded with colloidal silver. Some side effects of colloidal silver overload may cause flu like symptoms, headache, extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea or aching muscles. None of the side effects associated with colloidal silver have been shown to be toxic or lethal.
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Bacteria are becoming more resistant to these pharmaceutically manufactured antibiotics and bacteria have been shown to mutate making antibiotics less effective. In addition, pharmaceutically manufactured antibiotics can interfere with other medications and make them less effective. For example, people on certain cholesterol medications are recommended to avoid using clarithromycin and erythromycin because it can reduce the effect of the drugs used as their cholesterol regimen (Dr. Mercola, 2013). Some people believe that colloidal silver should be used along with pharmaceutical antibiotics because colloidal silver can boost the effectiveness of antibiotics and it has been proven in recent researches that adding colloidal silver can actually help antibiotics 10 to 1,000 times kill more bacteria (Dr. Mercola, …show more content…
As we continue to misuse antibiotics and add them to farm animals, new strength bacteria will be more challenging to cure. Antibiotic are very fast acting alternatives for treating many infections but at the same time they can be toxic to the body and damage healthy cells in our body. Antibiotics have many side effects and in some cases, they can damage the liver and the kidney. Even though colloidal silver is a good alternative we should weight the benefits and the risks when choosing to use them with-out doctor