(Fast) Wound Healing in Cat with Colloidal Silver

 10th April 2012

On the evening of the 10th of April 2012, Cricket limped into the house with a very deep wound. It appeared to be an animal bite - she probably put her front leg down a fox or badger hole and got warned off by the animal inside with a single bite.  When she first arrived home, the wound was bleeding but the bleeding stopped after an hour or so.  However, her entire leg was swollen and all she wanted to do was sleep.  She found it very painful to move and I had to reposition her often so she wasn't lying on the wounded leg.  For the first few hours, she wouldn't lie down at all, but slept standing up.

She didn't want to eat, but she was enthusiastic about drinking semi-skimmed milk. She wouldn't drink plain water. To prevent dehydration, I gave her the milk with colloidal silver mixed into it and left her to sleep without disturbance.

26 April 2012

This is a photo of Cricket's leg 16 days later. The skin had grown back over 70% of the wound, and the fur had also regrown along with it.  Cricket, by this time, had long regained her appetite and had resumed normal cat duties, including hunting.

11 May 2012

This photo was taken 15 days later. Cricket's bite wound had closed and the fur was rapidly growing over as well.

So in just over a month, Cricket had completely recovered from a deep raw wound, probably from a wild animal bite - a bite which may have carried some very nasty bacteria. To take her to a vet would have been, in my opinion, pointless - possibly even detrimental.  The wound was too wide to be stitched. The trip to and from a vet would have been very stressful and painful for her, and I was not prepared to post large antibiotic tablets down her throat two or three times a day as may have been prescribed by a vet.  Antibiotics have side-effects, and I believe that colloidal silver is unbeaten for its ability to prevent and eliminate infection and promote healing. To avoid distressing Cricket and also risk contamination from cotton wool, etc, the colloidal silver was never applied topically.  I did try (once) to drop the silver onto the wound, but Cricket made it very obvious that she didn't want that. So I relied on the silver doing its work internally and systemically. 

I am hoping that Cricket will now be more selective regarding where and what she explores.

Cat's Urinary Infection - Gone in a Day

One of our two cats (Cricket) developed a urinary infection. She was peeing in inappropriate places (which she had never done before), including the dogs' beds.  Apart from the fact that Cricket would've been very uncomfortable, the first thing that needed to be stopped was the peeing in wrong places.  When a cat has a urinary or bladder infection, the pee is even more odourous than usual.  

Cricket was subdued and straining to pee, and there was a small amount of blood in the urine. When I phoned the vet, they told me it would take about a week for antibiotics to kick in properly, and I couldn't wait that long for a) the peeing to stop and b) Cricket to feel better.  Plus, antibiotics can have side-effects in cats just as they do for humans.

I have a colloidal silver generator and I gave Cricket a 2ml oral dose via a plastic syringe straight into the mouth in the morning, early evening and again around midnight. By the next day, the blood had disappeared from her urine, and she'd stopped peeing in inappropriate places. Still a little subdued, so I continued dosing her for about a week, decreasing the dosage to two times a day, same amount.

Why did she get the infection in the first place? Both cats get the 'best' cat food money can buy. They are strong and glossy-coated, and ready to play, eat and sleep as healthy cats should. Their environment is clean and they get plenty of exercise.  Turns out that bladder or urinary infections are more often caused by dehydration than anything else.  And dehydration can be caused by feeding cats/dogs dry food. Our cats were getting a mixture of both wet and dry, and sometimes just dry food.  Cats get most of their water requirement from their food, NOT from drinking water from a bowl.  

I stopped giving our cats any type of dry (kibble) food.  A few months later, however, I gave both cats a little dry food just for a change, and immediately Cricket started peeing in the wrong places again. No blood this time, as I think I gave her the silver again before it developed too far.  Lesson learned - wet food only, at all times.  Cricket hasn't had a problem since.

So what is Colloidal Silver (or Silver Colloid)?

Colloids are the smallest biological form of any matter.  They are small enough to pass through membranes and therefore they skip past the digestive process and are easily absorbed by the body. 

There are many benefits of colloidal silver.  Colloidal silver supports the natural defence system of the body and is powerfully alkaline.  It is created when an electromagnetic process pulls tiny particles of silver from a larger samole of pure silver into (usually distilled) water.   The minute electric charge on each atom holds these silver particles in suspension.  This is essential to the effectiveness of the silver as it allows the particles to move more easily throughout the body.

Another benefit is that colloidal silver has been recognised as a powerful, natural antibiotic.  Research has shown that it works by acting as a catalyst, disabling the enzyme that single-celled bacteria, fungi and viruses require for the metabolism of oxygen.  This then suffocates the invading cell whilst doing no harm to any human enzymes, resulting in the removal of disease-causing organisms from the body.

It also works through the negative charge on the silver clusters binding up with the positive charge on the germ/bacteria.  This causes an interruption of the germs biological function which means that it is then unable to reproduce.

Colloidal silver has long been the subject of hot debate in medical circles.  In the 19th Century, colloidal silver was used prominently to treat all manner of illness and disease ranging from skin infections to common colds.  In the United States, this common use continued until 1983, when the FDA started its long and heavy oppression against the use of medicinal silver.  Arguably its disdain for silver's use in medicine came from the threat that it poses to the highly lucrative antibiotics industry.  Up until recently, any silver-based products had to be classified as a pre-1938 drug.  However, now that the FDA has begun to approve of medicinal silver, more and more products are emerging. 

Colloidal silver has been reputed by various studies to be able to kill over 650 micro-organisms. It has been reported to be effective in fighting against: acne, AIDS, allergies, arthritis, athletes foot, boils, burns, candida, cystitis, diabetes, eczema, hay fever, indigestion, parasitic infections, psoriasis, ringworm, warts and yeast infections.

It can be used either orally or topically. When taken orally you can either place droplets directly under the tongue or it can be put into water and drunk. Silver is often used topically by spraying onto cuts, burns, skin infections or acne.

***Note:  In the case of the cat mentioned in my previous blog, she was given a larger dose orally using a plastic syringe. The exact dose is unknown, but using a syringe to administer orally indicates the dose was given by the millilitre, rather than 'drops'.

Curing Pyometra - without a vet

From a friend in New Zealand....


My friend (let's call him 'John'), heard about a female cat who was suffering Pyometra. Very nasty condition which requires immediate evacuation of pus inside the womb and spaying. If the condition isn't treated in time, the cat will die.  If the cat has surgery, this can cost a fortune and the cat can never breed again.


John (a natural therapist) recommended a large dose of colloidal silver 2-3 times per day for 3 weeks.  The cat not only quickly recovered from the condition completely, but she went on to give birth to a litter of 4 very healthy kittens!