I haven’t had any personal experience using colloidal silver for eczema/dermatitis. But over the years I’ve heard of other colloidal silver users getting good results from spraying liquid colloidal silver onto the affected areas of their skin several times a day, and allowing it to air dry before putting clothes on.
What Colloidal Silver Users Say
For example, a reader recently wrote:
“My mother had a dermatitis infection on and in her ear and the skin was very irritable and flakey, and she sprayed colloidal silver onto it 3 times a day and in 3 days it disappeared completely. The doctor would have given her some cream or pills, but this way it went faster and without all those drugs.
My brother in law has eczema and he uses my colloidal silver on it, and it relieves his irritability and takes the inflammation away so he has comfort and doesn’t scratch. Other friends who have had skin infections and conditions and all said it gave them relief.”
– Stefano L.
Here’s another short but interesting personal account of the use of colloidal silver for eczema/dermatitis:
“My friend is giving her daughter silver to help with her eczema. I haven’t seen her but her husband said it was working and asked for another quart yesterday.”
– Gina
Using colloidal silver for eczema/dermatitis – google image
Here’s an interesting testimonial regarding a stubborn case of eczema that turned into a MRSA infection that was finally resolved thanks to colloidal silver:
“I am currently fighting an infection on my ankle that started as an eczema sore that I picked at foolishly. It now has a staph infection that the doctors so far have been unable to find an antibiotic that works against.
“I run a small bird refuge and I have found it hard to attend the infection clinic that the doctors wanted me to go to. I took things into my own hands and started treating the infection with colloidal silver.
“My methods are rather primitive; I have simply strapped a thick piece of cotton wool to my ankle that is regularly soaked in colloidal silver. I had continual pain in the sore, that I did not realize at the time was being caused by the bacteria.
“Once the colloidal silver has been on the wound for a couple of hours the pain subsided. I had been taking regular pain killers for this pain and I was able to stop taking them. The sore is slowly getting smaller and cleaner looking…
“I made the mistake of leaving the cotton off one night to give my skin a chance to dry out, but in the morning there was yellow liquid coming out of the wound again and the pain had returned.
You have to keep the treatment up 24/7 otherwise it comes back quickly. It is only going slowly, but it is going, which is more than was happening with the antibiotics from the doctor.”
What the Older Medical Literature Says
Several forms of eczema, including chronic eczema of anterior nares, chronic eczema of metus of ear, perineal eczema and pustular eczema of scalp are listed as having been treated successfully with colloidal silver in the older, pre-1940’s medical literature.
You can read more about it in the article, 109 Documented Successful Uses for Colloidal Silver Before the Advent of Prescription Antibiotic Drugs.
Here’s a quote from a 1917 issue of the British Medical Journal that mentions eczema in regards to colloidal silver’s effectiveness:
Colloidal silver “rapidly subdues inflammation and promotes healing of the lesions, it can be used with remarkable results in enlarged prostate with irritation of the bladder, in pruritis ani, and perineal eczema, and in haemorrhoids.”
– British Medical Journal (May 12, 1917), Sir Malcom Morris
In the 1920’s, a medical publication called The National Druggist mentioned colloidal silver being used against eczema of the scalp:
“C.E.A. MacLeod says (Lancet, February 3, 1912) that colloidal silver has proved its value in combating the following ailments among others – tonsilitis, gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis, spring catarrh, pustular eczema of scalp, septic ulcers of legs, boils, chronic cystitis, ringwork, soft sores. But we must not prolong the list of the good works of colloidal silver. Suffice it that at the present time it is the most extensively used in medicine of all the sols.”
– The National Druggist, Vol. 50, page 388, August 1920
And here’s a more recent quote from biochemist and natural health journalist James South, MA, regarding what some of the older medical literature says about colloidal silver’s wide variety of uses; it too mentions it being used for a form of eczema:
“From 1900 to the beginning of the modern antibiotic era – circa 1940 with the introduction of sulfa drugs – Silver was one of the mainstays of medical practice in Europe and America.
Various forms of Silver were used to treat literally hundreds of ailments: lung infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and pleurisy; sexual diseases such as gonorrhea and syphillis; skin conditions such as cuts, wounds, leg ulcers, pustular eczema, impetigo and boils…”
– International Anti-Aging Bulletin, April 1999, by James South, MA
Dr. Kent Holtorf also mentions colloidal silver being used for eczema in a study review of colloidal silver’s known historical uses:
“Silver formulations have also been used in hundreds of various infections and other conditions including pneumonia, tuberculosis, STD’s, eczema, meningitis, erysipelas, Mediterranean fever, corneal ulcers, conjunctivitis and septicemia.
– Dr. Kent Holtorf, Holtorf Medical Group, “Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Oligodynamic Silver”
As you can see, the older literature has many references to colloidal silver and other silver preparations being used successfully against eczema. What we don’t know, unfortunately, is precisely how much was used, how it was used and how often it was used in order to obtain successful results.
How People Use Colloidal Silver for Eczema
Most people I’ve heard from who have used colloidal silver for eczema use it topically, i.e., simply by putting some in a pump spray bottle and spraying it onto the affected areas of the skin four or five times a day, and allowing it to air dry afterwards.
Others say they soak a cotton ball in colloidal silver and then dab it onto the affected area and allowing it to air dry. They might do this four or five times a day, as needed.
My personal thoughts on the matter, were I to have eczema/dermatis, would be as follows:
I’d probably first try spraying a standard 10 ppm colloidal silver solution onto the affected areas of the body, four or five times a day, and allowing it to air dry before putting clothes back on. I’d then gauge the results over a period of days.
If spraying liquid colloidal silver onto the affected area of the skin is inconvenient or ineffective, I’d consider getting a good colloidal silver gel, such as ASAP Ultimate Skin & Body Care Gel and apply the gel to the affected areas at least several times a day, and gauge the results.
As always, I’m just reporting on the information I’ve come across, and speculating on what I might do under such a circumstance. Therefore none of this information should be taken as “prescriptive” in nature. Be sure to consult your licensed and experienced natural health care practitioner for more information, as well as for specific guidance and direction.
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