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n.- Permanent dark discoloration of the skin due to absorption following overuse of medicinal silver preparations.

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  • High solutions (100 parts per million or above) may carry an increased risk of side effects, including a condition called argyria, in which the skin darkens or turns blue.
  • It continued to be used in some over-the-counter medicines until 1999, when the FDA banned it because it causes argyria, which is a result of the silver reacting with...
  • (the condition is called argyria and I wrote abut it in my book,
  • Paul Karason of Madera, CA, has argyria, which makes your skin blue.
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