OT: another scam?

[Roger Hayter]

Perhaps this is more for a legal group? Someone in Oldham is selling a colloidal silver spray device in a gateway that is supposed to 'sterilise' customers. The rationale on the website is largely nonsense, and carefully fails to directly address the problem of customers exhaling virus, which is of course the main problem.

Meanwhile there is evidence that a colloidal solver mist may be toxic to the lungs.

The makers may of course get round the toxicity problem by only using homeopathic quantities of silver. Since it is unlikely to do any good however much you use this may be the best compromise.

It will be interesting to see where this goes, assuming anyone at all buys their device.

[Jethro_uk]

The body can't excrete it. Start taking it and you go blue.

Silver has phenomenal anti-microbial properties (see also: brass). One reason silver plated cutlery was a thing.

One the basis that the intricacies of delivering colloidal silver are many, I'd suggest this is a scam.

[jon]

Ok for treatment of leg ulcers..but I would want to see the pharmacology of the preparation first.

[Martin Brown]

Refer them to trading standards. I doubt there is any merit in their claims. Certainly nothing that they can prove experimentally.

You can also find similar scams running using graphene.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Is this the same idea that a mist will lay dust problems by clumping them together and making them fall to the ground?

I remember I used to work in a so called clean air room and that had all kinds of air treatment going on even charging it up to a different polarity, but people still caught colds.

Brian

[Roger Hayter]

Apparently the silver attaches to virus cells and disrupts their oxygen metabolism. This would be more credible if viruses had cells, or oxygen metabolism for that matter.