This is not a very pretty picture, if it is true. One basic problem is simply that bacteria have a tremendous ability to adapt to substances. They can and do mutate to overcome antibiotics. When the antibiotics destroy the bacteria which are susceptible to them, they only clear the way for the resistant bacteria to move in uninhibited. The good news is, there is a substance now rapidly arising on the horizon that can help with most infection problems and has no known side effects.
Resistant strains fail to develop.
Morever, silver is virtually non-toxic. Although colloidal silver was well-known in the 1930's, the new excitement over it began in the 1970's when Dr. Carl Moyer, Chairman of Washington University's Department of Surgery, received a grant to develop better treatments for burn victims. Dr. Harry Margraf worked with Dr. Moyer and other surgeons as chief biochemist on this project. In his research Dr. Margraf found numerous references to silver as an antimicrobial agent, and it has been used for hundreds of years in one form or another to treat infection and has proven itself to be totally nontoxic at all concentrations. Bacteria have never developed an immunity to it.