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The Miracle of Silver Conducting Fibre Anti-Bacterial and Anti-Fungal Properties Circulation Booster Mobile ™

Background to Silver’s Use in Health and Electronics
It has long been known that silver has properties that are important in health. Probably the best known form is colloidal silver in a distilled water preparation which contains about five parts of silver per million. This preparation has been consumed for many generations. It is known to improve the immune system and it may assist with a range of ailments.

Silver is used in most carbon water filters to inhibit the growth of bacteria and moulds. It is clearly safe to ingest silver in small amounts. Silver has been used for ages for its strong anti-microbial (anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral) and health restoring properties.

The major use for silver is in the electronics industry because silver is a highly efficient conductor of electricity and it can be formed and soldered easily.

First Use of Conducting Fibres for Electrodes
This is the first time however that silver has been woven to create conducting fibre for a range of electrodes to be used in the application of electro-nerve and electro-muscle stimulation. The conducting fibre used in Circulation Booster Mobile™ comprises silver fabric woven with Rayon.

The Fabric
If we examine a sock applicator we can see that the outside is black woven material (98% Cotton, 2% Lycra) with flecks of silver showing through whilst the inside is silver woven material. The result is a soft high quality fabric that feels and wears like a sock whilst offering important health benefits. It can be washed like a normal sock.

Whilst the focus for the development of this range of applicators (including gloves and stockings for amputees) has been squarely on the prevention and treatment of circulation disorders, the strong anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties have not been forgotten.

Diseases of the Feet
There are annoying and painful ailments of the feet that are caused by fungi and bacteria. The best known is athlete’s foot, caused by a mixture of perspiration and bacteria that thrive in shoes and socks. Tinea pedis is caused by fungi. Foot odour (smelly feet) is caused by the proliferation of bacteria. Stop the bacteria from growing and the smell cannot develop. The opportunity to solve the problem of smelly feet is enough reason to wear Circulation Booster Mobile™ socks.

Neurodermatitis Caused by a Virus
The central pathogenetic role of the gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus (S.) aureus for Neurodermatitis (syn.: atopic eczema, atopic dermatitis) has been well documented by publications. On one side S. aureus is the microbiological agent of a known complication, the so-called impetiginized atopic eczema. On the other side it can trigger or maintain inflammation reactions for the Neurodermatitis because of its preferred colonization on the skin of the Neurodermatitis patient, even without an indication of the active clinical infection. The bacterium has a large stock of factors directly damaging the cells or relevant for immunology or inflammations:

• super antigens (exotoxins: SEA, SEB, SEC, TSST-1 etc.)
• proteases
• lipases
• nucleases
• alpha toxin

S. aureus can be isolated at more than 90 % of the Neurodermatitis patients from the skin (Leyden et al.; Br. J. Dermatol. 1974; 90: 525 – 530), it belongs to the standard flora of Neurodermatitis patients. There has been intensive research for many years to find out why the skin of Neurodermatitis patients is so particularly attractive for this bacterium. At present a deficiency of endogenous microbial peptides effective against S. aureus is taken as the reason (LL-37, HBD-2). These particular defensives were reduced at Neurodermatitis patients in comparison to opsonises patients and people with healthy skin (Ong et al.; New. Engl. J. Med. 2002; 347: 1151 – 1160). Therefore it is understandable that there will normally be only temporary success to eliminate the virus from the skin and a permanent elimination of the virus after one single treatment will not be possible. This will have remarkable therapeutic implications.

A study was conducted in Germany in 2004 over a seven day period with participants wearing a silver fabric elbow guard on one elbow and a plain cotton elbow guard on the other elbow. The study demonstrated the following:

• The silver coating leads to a significant reduction of Staphylococcus aureus. That this is due to the silver coating, could be seen by the control textile consisting only of cotton; its use did not cause any reduction of the S. aureus colonization, as expected.
• The antimicrobial effect could be seen after two days of active use and also at the end of the active use. During the next few days, after finishing the active use, a light and continuous increase of the S. aureus colonization could be seen, as expected.
• As expected, the reduction of the density of S. aureus germs was related to an improvement of the eczema. It reached even the level of statistical relevance (p=0.01) at day 14 in comparison with control side covered by the cotton textile.

WARNING: DO NOT USE WHILE DRIVING, IF PREGNANT, SUFFER FROM EPILEPSY OR HAVE AN IMPLANTED DEVICE SUCH AS A PACEMEMAKER. USE ONLY AS DIRECTED. CONSULT YOUR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONER IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST