VULCAN SILVER - Because It Works: 2017

On the 17th of January 2017 News24 published an article about Riaan van der Westhuizen who was undergoing a terrible ordeal after being seriously wounded in a highjacking...

Link to article below:

Patient tells of critical blood loss, near death, open infected wound in hospital hell

Riaan's arm got severely infected in hospital and doctors could not operate to reattach severed nerves and tendons or do skin grafts. He was infected with Enterobacter cloacae - a very aggressive bacterial infection that has been classified as a multiresistant bacterial pathogen by the US Library of Medicine and consequently developed sepsis which is often fatal. The swelling got worse daily to the point that stitches were completely ineffective. Doctors asked Riaan's fiancee Karen to sign forms consenting to amputation and fortunately she refused.

Wound after 2 weeks in hospital

3 days after Riaan started using Vulcan Silver both orally to combat the infection in his blood as well as topically to heal his wound he could both feel and see a remarkable improvement in the size of his wound and a significant reduction in swelling so he checked himself out of hospital and went home.

After just two weeks on Vulcan Silver there is a significant improvement

Riaan took maximum dose orally (2.5ml 3 times a day) to combat the bacterial infection and had his dressing changed every second day.

10 weeks after treatment using only Vulcan Silver

After approximately 8 weeks Riaan was elated to see that the skin was regrowing; meaning there was no skin graft necessary and he was infection free so he could finally schedule the surgery to reattach severed nerves and tendons.

After surgery to reattach nerves and tendons

Being on Vulcan Silver Riaan only spent 4 days in hospital and he is going from strength to strength. To completely heal his arm and rid him of infection over a 10 week period cost in the region of R20,000-00. A small price to pay to save a life and a limb. It's very important to note that no antibiotics were used during this process nor stitches or skin grafts. Only Vulcan Silver.

Riaan and Karen

Needless to say, Riaan is absolutely thrilled with the results, especially after the harrowing ordeal he went through with no end in sight until Vulcan Silver gave him hope.

Follow up - 18 April 2018

In October last year we wrote about Riaan van der Westhuizen's terrible ordeal after being severely injured in a highjacking. He got infected with Enterobacter clocae (a very aggressive multi drug resistant bacteria) in hospital and consequently developed sepsis which is often fatal. Doctors wanted to amputate. Last week Riaan sent us a new picture of his arm, pictured below.

As reported in our previous blog post and thanks to Vulcan Silver, his infections cleared up, the wound completely healed without stitches or skin grafts and doctors could do surgery to reattach his severed tendons. However, they made it clear that there is very little hope of him ever getting movement and sensation back as it was doubtful that his nerves would grow back sufficiently. Since then Riaan has faithfully taken his daily doses (3 X 2.5ml) of Vulcan Silver. Despite the fact that the surgeons were sceptical about any feeling returning to the arm and advised that follow up surgeries may be required Riaan is experiencing up to 40% mobility and sensation in his arm and hand. So it was no big surprise to him when the surgeon did a follow up consultation in order to schedule the next surgery, that it was found that in the last 3 months alone his nerves had grown 150mm in length and further surgery was ruled out at this time. With only 250mm of nerves left to form it is now believed that Riaan will make a full recovery.

Riaan is slowly starting to play guitar and perform live again, which has always been one of his passions and something he thought was behind him forever.