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Article: Harvard Health warns against colloidal silver.(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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The August 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter warns that there are no legitimate reasons for taking the dietary supplement colloidal silver, which is used as a cold medicine, decongestant and all-round germ fighter, and even suggest that the commonly-used ingredient may cause some serious and strange side effects.
Silver has several uses in conventional medicine. Silver sulfadiazine is used to treat serious burns, fabric impregnated with silver is sometimes used as a dressing for wounds or skin infections and silver nitrate is occasionally used to treat warts and corns. But there is no proof that taking colloidal silver by mouth has any benefits, states the ...