“Unless you count the people who died from it.”
Sources, please.
“However, the question is whether it is similarly toxic to multi-cellular organisms. Unfortunately, there are too many studies that say yes, it is.”
Sources, please.
“Most non-metal based antibiotics don’t build up in the tissues.”
And they do not work. MRSA, C-DIFF, etc etc etc...these are because of the over use of antibiotics by doctors...and these hospital acquired diseases kill people. There are solutions to these too, but not in the conventional medicine scheme of things.
Mirsattari SM, Hammond RR, Sharpe MD, Leung FY, Young GB (April 2004). “Myoclonic status epilepticus following repeated oral ingestion of colloidal silver”.
http://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/silver_f_V1.html
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA363388/collodial-silver.html
http://cira.ornl.gov/documents/SILVER.pdf
Ellenhorn, M.J., S. Schonwald, G. Ordog, J. Wasserberger. Ellenhorn’s Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1997., p. 1608
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/silver
Let me know if you’d like to see more.
As a side note, it seems the increase in the use of silver in wound dressings and as an antibiotic is leading to new resistant strains of bacteria already:
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/bacterial-resistance-to-silver-based-antibiotics/201749.article
http://www.o-wm.com/article/8483