Dr. Alexandrina Petrea, primary epidemiologist,

specialist in family medicine, competence in apiphytotherapy

When we choose to treat a particular infection with an antibiotic, a laboratory test called an antibiogram is carried out to show which antibiotics are effective in treating that infection, i.e. to which antibiotics the tested bacteria are sensitive and also to which they are resistant.

The same is true when we want to use volatile oils in antibacterial treatment and the analysis to determine the sensitivity or resistance of microbial strains to the oils tested is called an aromatogram.

In a similar way I chose to test, for the first time a year ago, the efficacy of several solutions of colloidal silver, (colloidal silver being known to be the most potent natural antibiotic), in the treatment of a pyocyanin infection in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as that strain had proved to be resistant to all antibiotics tested on the antibiogram. The analysis, which we could call a silverogram, was carried out at a laboratory in Iasi, the same laboratory where we had previously carried out the antibiogram, and we asked for it to know if that treatment with colloidal silver could be effective and which solution was the most effective since we had three solutions of different concentrations from three different manufacturers.

Thus, one solution was 25ppm from Agnes Itara, the second was 30ppm and the third was 1000 ppm from other companies. I honestly expected the last one to be the most effective. However, the result of the silverogram showed that the only solution to which the strain of pyocyanin tested was sensitive was the 25ppm solution (Argentum+® Concentrate).

Treatment was carried out with this solution with germ negativity after the first ten days of treatment, in total the duration of treatment was one month.