Silver Drinks

Apparently there is a bit of a feud taking place between the pharmaceutical industry and the makers of colloidal silver drinks. As I understand it, the man pictured above, Paul Karason ("The Blue Man"), got his skin condition when he tried to make a homemade colloidal silver concoction. What Paul didn't realize is that the formula he used didn't produce colloidal silver, now a dietary supplement which was formerly produced by pharmaceutical companies as a general antibiotic under various names, including Protargol and Argyrol. But the material was costly and the pharmaceutical industry developed fast-acting, less-expensive sulfa drugs and penicillin. Colloidal silver has been approved by the EPA as a disinfectant for hospitals and medical centers however.

What Paul did produce was a compound called silver chloride, which he then ingested and used topically. This is why he now looks like Veruca Salt, due to a lack of understanding.