Hi
I think it depends on the product.
You will encounter all of those who tell you how bad it is for you. You be the judge. PM me and I will email you all of the results from the study with KC287...Bree Saffell, who is no longer with the company, sent me all the clinical data and it is amazing. It is 100% effective in killing pseudo and has no potential for resistance according to some studies...I kinda doubt that one...the resistance part.
I was one of the people enrolled in the KC287 trials. I have mycobaterium abscessus and it is resistant to just about every drug out there. My docs were choosing not to treat me...mainly because the cocktail of drugs was so toxic and he anticipated my quality of life would suffer greatly. I had been feeling more and more run down and more shut down and they told me progression..blah, blah. I had been researching everything to see if anything natural could help and the kc287 was my answer. It was a silver colloid with peppermint oil and Tween 80 (a food additive) and that was it. University of Colorado lab was doing their cultures and were experiencing amazing results...so why not look into it?
At this point my dad flew to Colorado Springs, spoke with the head scientist, toured the facility and agreed that it did indeed appear safe...based on reading study after study with this company's product.
Unfortunately, I did not follow the protocal and was subsequently excluded from the trials. What I can say is that the product was amazing and I went from heart rate of 92 resting and pulse ox of 97-98% to resting heart rate of 70 to 100% oxygen sat in five days....that was taken first thing in the morning. I also coughed up horrific amounts of mucus. I am not a big producer and I always feel like if I could just get out a few plugs, my whole life would change. This mucus was really weird....almost like plugs....but there was just so much of it and the color was gross....dark, dark, green. When I was coughing I felt like my whole lungs were going to spill out.
What you should know is that in June of 06 I had a REALLY bad CT scan. My doc told me it was definitely the worst one I have had up to this point. He felt like it was abscessus and he wanted to wait a little longer to treat it. I felt desperate and decided to start the study in September. It was a huge time commitment and was to continue for months. I took it for around six weeks and by the end of week one, I knew I was doing something right for me. I developed a horrible cough and wore myself out getting the crap out of my lungs.
My exercise tolerance increased and my color improved....not scientific, I know, but I was feeling better. On week five, I got food poisoning and was terribly sick for three days...by week six I started my lovely inflammation and had to quit inhaling it.
So, clearly I did not give it a chance to really work...but here is the weird news.
I had NO ANTIBIOTICS from June to October. I can't inhale drugs b/c I have reactive airway disease and I refuse to take oral unless I really feel awful with pseudo. I had another CT SCAN last week in October and it was MUCH BETTER. Doc couldn't understand....what had I done to improve it so much? Wish I could tell him.
Also, after culturing abscessus for 7 years, my last culture showed no abscessus. I think this is just a fluke, but very interesting. I have never NOT cultured it in seven years.
Having said all of this, all silver is not created equal. I personally would stick with Klearsen just because they have so many studies proving their safety profile.
I also know that you can't inhale kc287 within an hour of hypertonic saline because the silver is drwan to the salt molecules and would form the type of silver more prone to cause arrgyria...silver nitrate??? can't remember.
Anyway, I have all of the results and can email them all to you.
The have finished the study although some people are still taking it through wholesale from the company. The are now trying to get in front of the Gates Foundation to help with the TB problem.....