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A child's return from autism Couple eager to share their conviction that mercury poisoning was the culprit
May God protect the doctors and parents speaking out on this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. Jamie Handley was a happy, healthy baby who reached all his developmental milestones until he turned 18 months, his parents said. Then, he started spinning in circles and standing on his toes and no longer responded to his name. They were eventually told he was autistic -- one of an increasing number of children over the last decade to be diagnosed with the disorder, which severely impairs a child's ability to interact with others. The Handleys are now among a small minority of parents -- who, believing that the autism was caused by the mercury in thimerosal, a preservative that was routinely used in vaccines until recently -- are treating their children with chelation therapy, a lotion or pill that strips the body of heavy metals. It has been used for decades to detoxify people contaminated in industrial accidents, but no studies have proved whether it is an effective treatment for autism. For Jamie's parents, the proof they need is in front of them: Jamie, now 3 years old and several months into treatment, is plump and playing baseball. His smile has returned. "Every day brings small, steady gains," said Lisa Handley of Lafayette. "Our life is filled with hope and the conviction that Jamie won't just improve, but will completely recover." The Handleys said the new support group, Generation Rescue, and its Web site, www.generationrescue.com, will offer information on chelation therapy and connect parents with those who can help. The chelation therapy includes not only the medicine, but dietary restrictions and vitamins and mineral supplements. The medical community differs on the cause of autism, a developmental disorder marked by communication problems and restricted or repetitive behavior. Some say it's genetic, possibly exacerbated by other medical or environmental conditions. Others have noticed that the symptoms have often surfaced after a child got routine vaccinations containing thimerosal -- and believe that the skyrocketing numbers of autism in the last decade are the result of an increasing use of the vaccinations over the same period. "Mercury is the second most neurotoxic substance on earth, after plutonium, and they were injecting it into newborns until 2003," said Lynn Mielke, Jamie's doctor. "An entire generation of children was basically poisoned." In California, 1,605 children were diagnosed with autism in 1992-93, compared with nearly 20,000 a decade later, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The national Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academies, has concluded that there is no link between thimerosal and autism and says that a number of other factors could explain the rise in autism diagnoses. But the Handleys and other parents say they noticed symptoms in their children after they got booster shots. "Our son Andy regressed immediately after his 15-month vaccinations," said Karen Schwing of Beach Haven, N.J., another member of Generation Rescue. "I was told nothing can be done. Our son is living proof that autism is treatable." Treatment of autism is as hotly debated as the causes of the disease. Mielke, who has an autistic son, is a member of a group called Defeat Autism Now and attends an international research conference on autism twice a year. She insists that almost every child improves with the chelation therapy. Others say that it can be treated through changes in diet and with nutritional supplements. Nothing yet has been proved to cure autism, however. If thimerosal is part of the problem, the numbers of cases should begin to drop. In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Public Health Service said vaccine manufacturers should phase out thimerosal. While it may still be found in vaccines on the shelves of doctors' offices, said Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism Research Institute of San Diego, new pediatric vaccines now contain trace amounts of the preservative or none at all. Three states -- Iowa, Missouri and California -- have banned the preservative, although the California law doesn't take effect until July 2006. Other states are considering following suit, but a U.S. Senate bill would prevent states from banning mercury in vaccines. Government funding is needed to prove or disprove the mercury connection, said Dr. Boyd Haley, a mercury researcher and expert on toxicology at the University of Kentucky. "We need the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to put their money and expertise to determine the best possible treatment." E-mail Leslie Fulbright at . Page B - 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another controversy with PR millions thrown at it: www.BreastImplantAwareness.org |
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"Ilena Rose" wrote in message ... May God protect the doctors and parents speaking out on this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. The best way to promote the treatment is to prove that the treatment works. Is there any scientific evidence that supports the treatment? Like peer-reviewed articles that show the treatment works? Or is there just anecdote? Jeff |
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*If* this child had documented elevated mercury levels, and *if*
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wrote in message oups.com... *If* this child had documented elevated mercury levels, and *if* chelation fixed him, then he didn't have autism; he had mercury poisoning. Plus, the vast majority of mercury comes from the environment and food, not from vaccines. (Although I am glad that mercury isn't in most vaccines. Even though the dose is so small that it is not dangerous and doesn't cause any problems, the mercury is pooped or peed out, and gets into the environment. So that means by getting rid of the mercury from the vaccines, you reduce ever so slightly the amount of mercury going into the environment.) Jeff |
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"Jeff" wrote in message k.net... "Ilena Rose" wrote in message ... May God protect the doctors and parents speaking out on this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. The best way to promote the treatment is to prove that the treatment works. Is it? Do show us when convention medicine did that with the huge amount they use that NEVER has been proven to work You can't. You are once again blowing smoke. Is there any scientific evidence that supports the treatment? Like peer-reviewed articles that show the treatment works? Once again I ask you the same question. Or is there just anecdote? Jeff http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/news/herald.pdf |
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wrote in message oups.com... *If* this child had documented elevated mercury levels, and *if* chelation fixed him, then he didn't have autism; he had mercury poisoning. Newsgroups: misc.kids.health From: "John" - Find messages by this author Date: 2000/05/16 Subject: Autism, a Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse To: Vaccines & Related Biological Products May 11, 2000 Advisory Committee Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research Food & Drug Administration My name is Sallie Bernard. I live in Summit, New Jersey, am the president and CEO of a market research company and a board member of the Cure Autism Now Foundation, the largest private funder of biomedical research on autism. I am also the parent of a 12 year old son with autism, and I am speaking to you today as a parent. Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder which, according to the latest CDC figures, may now be affecting as many as one in 150 children. The incidence of autism appears to be rising and as such, represents a significant public health issue. Due to the high likelihood that many if not most cases of autism are caused by the mercury in childhood vaccines containing thimerosal, and due to the fact that every child today can be fully vaccinated using a thimerosal-free product, I am asking you to join me in urging the FDA to call for an immediate ban on thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines. In July of 1999 when the FDA first released preliminary statements that the amount of mercury injected into infants and toddlers through childhood immunizations exceeded government safety levels, a few parents, including myself, began to investigate whether mercury toxicity might be a contributing factor in our children's autism. Our review of the available medical literature, summarized in our report, "Autism, a Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning", found that the symptoms and abnormalities which characterize autism are identical to those found in past cases of mercury poisoning. These similarities include the defining characteristics of autism - social withdrawal, OCD behaviors, and loss of or impairment in language - and they include traits strongly associated with autism and found in nearly all cases of the disorder - sensory disturbances such as numbness in the extremities and mouth, aversion to touch, and unusual response to noise; movement disorders like toe walking, hand flapping, clumsiness, and choreiform movements; and cognitive impairments in specific domains like short term, verbal and auditory memory and in understanding abstract ideas. The biological abnormalities in autism and mercury poisoning are similar as well. These include damage to the same brain areas - the Purkinje cells, granule layer, amygdala, and hippocampus; autonomic system disturbances like abnormal sweating, increased heart rate, and poor circulation; immune system dysfunction including a shift in the Th2 lymphocyte subset, suppressed natural killer cell function, and increased interferon gamma; low sulfate, cysteine, and glutathione; brain mitochondrial dysfunction; altered neurochemistry in the areas of serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, glutamate, and acetylcholine; and EEG abnormalities from subtle slow amplitude waves to epilepsy. These are just a fraction of the similarities which we have identified in the medical literature. The population characteristics are consistent in both disorders. First, the prevalence rate of autism closely matches the introduction and spread of thimerosal-containing vaccines. Autism was first discovered in the early 1940s among children born in the 1930s; thimerosal was first introduced into vaccines in the 1930s. Prior to 1970, autism was estimated at 1 in 2000 children; studies after 1970 showed a higher prevalence of 1 in 1000. This was also a period of increased immunization of American children. In 1996, the NIH estimated the rate of autism to be 1 in 500, and just recently the CDC has found 1 in 150 children affected. This dramatic increase coincided with the introduction and spread of two thimerosal containing vaccines - the HIB and Hepatitis B. Second, mercury is more toxic to males. Autism is more prevalent among boys, with the ratio estimated at 4 to 1. Third, at low doses, mercury adversely affects only genetically susceptible individuals, which are defined in terms of high responders and those prone to autoimmune disease. Autism has been recognized as one of the most heritable of all neurological disorders and it is strongly associated with familial autoimmune disorders. Fourth, exposure to mercury in vaccines occurs at the same time as autistic symptoms emerge, given the latent period common in mercury poisoning. Symptom emergence is similar in both diseases, starting with abnormal movement and sensation, and moving on to abnormalities in speech and hearing, and then the full-blown array of symptoms and signs. Our group has also documented a number of cases of autistic children with toxic levels of mercury in hair, urine, and blood. The breadth and specificity of these similarities, from defining and associated traits to biological abnormalities and population characteristics, as well as the timing of onset with exposure and the case studies of autistic children with toxic mercury levels, strongly suggest a causal relationship rather than one arising from mere chance. Despite the fact that there have been no published studies on the effect of bolus doses of injected ethylmercury on susceptible infants and toddlers, some individuals have nevertheless concluded that the amount of mercury in vaccines is too low to cause any real impairment. On the contrary, we have outlined four rationales describing how the mercury levels in vaccines would lead to significant harm in a small number of children. First, the cumulative amount of mercury which a 6 month old infant can receive exceeds the acceptable dose levels set by government agencies including the EPA, as outlined by Dr. Egan and Neal Halsey. Some have countered that since the EPA added a safety factor of ten, the risk of harm is insignificant. However, if you actually read the EPA report, it clearly states that the safety factor was added (a) to account for uncertainties and possible inaccuracies in the calculation (of which there are several significant ones) and (b) to protect sensitive groups. By exceeding the guidelines, these sensitive groups are at real risk, and arbitrarily ignoring the safety guidelines merely because it is inconvenient to follow them violates sound medical practice. Second, the EPA equation, which uses data of fetal toxicity from 81 mother/infant pairs poisoned by methylmercury in seed grain, is based on factors which would result in a lower relative risk than those involved in an infant vaccine exposure scenario. Higher risk factors include bolus doses vs chronic daily doses, injected vs ingested delivery, ethylmercury toxicity vs methylmercury toxicity, direct exposure to the infant vs indirect to the fetus through the mother, lack of adequate excretion by infants resulting in high brain mercury accumulation vs adequate maternal excretion and relatively low brain acummulations in mother and fetus, more rapid metabolism in infants resulting in greater conversion of ethylmercury to its toxic inorganic form vs slower metabolism in the mothers, and the involvement of mercury sensitive individuals rather than the average person. Third, the population distribution for mercury sensitivity, like that for nearly all toxins, is log normal; thus, statistically, a small percentage of the exposed population, if large enough, will be impaired at the lowest doses. The fact that some small percentage will be impaired at a very low dose is not just theoretical. It has been found true for certain strains of mice and rats, and it was also true for the form of mercury poisoning called acrodynia, which impaired approximately 1 in 500 children early in this century even at low doses. Clarkson describes acrodynia as being independent of dose and arising more from age and individual sensitivity. And finally, the risk assessment for vaccines does not take into consideration that infants may receive mercury from maternal sources, including maternal dental fillings and Rhogam shots which Rh negative women receive multiple times during pregnancy, each of which contains 30 micrograms of ethylmercury. Thimerosal is not a necessary component of vaccines, and every child can be fully immunized today with a non-thimerosal alternative. Immense harm has been caused by thimerosal in childhood vaccines. Do not risk permanent neurological damage to another child by allowing the continued use of thimerosal-containing vaccines. Official policy should err on the side of safety. Rather than waiting for formal studies to determine whether thimerosal should be taken out, the FDA should require that thimerosal be banned entirely from childhood vaccines immediately. |
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"Jeff" wrote in message link.net... wrote in message oups.com... *If* this child had documented elevated mercury levels, and *if* chelation fixed him, then he didn't have autism; he had mercury poisoning. Plus, the vast majority of mercury comes from the environment and food, not from vaccines. (Although I am glad that mercury isn't in most vaccines. Even though the dose is so small that it is not dangerous and doesn't cause any problems, the mercury is pooped or peed out, and gets into the environment. So that means by getting rid of the mercury from the vaccines, you reduce ever so slightly the amount of mercury going into the environment.) Jeff W R O N G http://www.positivehealth.com/permit...ist/dental.htm Dental Amalgam Fillings is the Number One Source of Mercury in People and Exposure Exceeds Government Health Standards for Inorganic mercury (vapor) Supplied by one of our readers Government agencies and medical studies have found that the number one source of mercury in people is from dental amalgam fillings2-20. Exposure from fillings amounts to from 50 to 90 percent of exposure, with the average being about 80 % of total exposure5-9,12-15,19,20. The studies found that mercury amalgams are unstable due to mercury's low vapor pressure and galvanic action, leaking mercury vapor continuously into the lungs and saliva at levels exceeding health standards. Mercury exposure of most people with fillings was found to exceed government health standards and levels found to cause adverse health effects(see below). The U.S.EPA mercury health standard1 for elemental mercury exposure(vapor) is 0.3 micrograms per cubic meter of air(0.3 ug/M3). For the average adult breathing 20 M3 of air per day2, this amounts to an exposure of 6 micrograms(ug) per day. The corresponding tolerable daily exposure developed in a report for the Canadian Health Agency, Health Canada, is .014 ug/kg body weight or 1 ug/day for average adult2. The U.S. Agency for toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR) standard (MRL) -for acute inhalation exposure to mercury vapor is 0.02 micrograms Hg/m3, which translates to approx. 1.2 ug/day for the average adult. The range of mercury exposure levels found in people with amalgam fillings by the World Health Organization Scientific Panel on Mercury was 3 to 70 micrograms per day3, with other medical studies finding up to 200 ug/day in gum chewers or people who grind their teeth6,11,16,17,18. The average exposure was above 10 ug/day3-18. The average mercury exposure for a Canadian adult with amalgam fillings was found in the Health Canada study to be 9 ug/day2. In a large German study with 20,000 tested subjects at a University Medical Clinic, the average exposure from fillings was over 10 ug/day and over 50 % of all those with 6 or more amalgam fillings had daily exposure exceeding the EPA health guideline17. Studies have consistently found modern high copper non gamma-two amalgams have greater release of mercury vapor than conventional silver amalgams21-23. Recent studies have concluded that because of the high mercury release levels of modern amalgams, mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings is widespread throughout the population"17,22,18. Common levels found in persons with amalgam fillings are over 10 times the Health Canada TDE, and more than the EPA health standard for mercury vapor. Thus persons with amalgam fillings have levels of intraoral mercury vapor and body exposure levels higher than the level considered to have significant health risk. The studies found that Total mercury intake is proportional to the number and extent of amalgam surfaces, but other factors such as chewing gum and drinking hot liquids influence the intake significantly increasing exposure as much as 500%. ). A World Health Organzation Scientific Panel concluded that a safe level of mercury exposure below which no adverse effects occur has never been established3. References (1) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), 1996, "Integrated Risk Information System, National Center for Invironmental Assessment", Cincinnati, Ohio(& web). (2) Mark Richardson, Environmental Health Directorate, Health Canada, Assessment of Mercury Exposure and Risks from Dental Amalgam, 1995, Final Report, & G.M. Richardson et al,"A Monte Carlo Assessment of Mercury Exposure and Risks from Dental Amalgam", Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2(4): 709-761. (3) World Health Organization(WHO),1991, Environmental Health criteria 118, Inorganic Mercury, WHO, Geneva; & W.Craelium, J Epidemiology and Community Health, 32:155-65,1978. (4) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Public Health Service, "Toxicological Profile for Mercury" (ATSDR TP93/10), 1994. (5) I.Skare, "Mass Balance and Systemic Uptake of Mercury Released from Dental Fillings", Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 80(1-4):59-67, 1995. (6) I.Skare et al, "Human Exposure to Hg and Ag Released from Dental Amalgam Restorations", Archives of Environmental Health 49(5): 384-394, 1994. (7) J.A.Weiner et al,"The relationship between mercury concentration in human organs and predictor variables",138(1-3):101-115,1993; & "An estimation of the uptake of mercury from amalgam fillings", Sci Total Environmet, v168,n3,1995. (8) A.Lussi, "Mercury release from amalgam into saliva", Schweiz Monatsschr ahnmed, 103(6):722-6,1993. (9) M.J.Vimy and F.L. Lorscheider, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Of Calgary, July 1991. (Study findings) & J. Trace Elem. Exper. Med., 1990,3, 111-123. (10) D.D.Gay et al, 1979, Lancet, May 5, 1985 & C.W.Svare et al, J Dent Res, The effects of amalgams on mercury levels in expired air", 60, 1981, p1668-. (11) L.Barregard et al, "People with high mercury uptake from their own dental amalgam fillings", Occup Envir Med, 1995, 52:124-128. (12) L.Bjorkman et al, "Mercury in saliva and feces after removal of amalgam fillings", Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1997, 144(1): 156-162. (13) M.Molin et al, "kinetics of mercury in blood and urine after mercury removal" J Dent Research, 1995, 74:420- (14) D.Zander et al, "Mercury Concentration in Urine in Relation to Number of amalgam Fillings", 1990, Zbl Hyg 190:325-334. (15) J.Begerow et al, "Long Term Mercury Excretion in Urine after Removal of Amalgam Fillings", Int Arch Occup Health 66: 209-212. (16) G.Sallsten et al, "long term use of chewing gum and mercury exposure from dental amalgam", J Dental Research, 1996, 75(1): 594-598. (17) P.Kraub et al, Universitat Tubingen,Instit fur Organische Chemie, 1997, http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/KRAUSS/amalgam.html ; & I.Gerhard, E.Roller, et al, Tubingen Univ. Gynecological Clinic, Heidelberg,1996, BUND Press Release 1997 & Bundesinstitut fur Arzneimittel un Medizinprodukte, 1997. (18) B.Windham, Anotated Bibliography of Exposure and Health Effects from Amalgam Fillings, 1997(over 400 references). (19) Halbach, 1995,"Estimation of mercury dose ..", Int.Archieves of Occupational & Environmental Health, 67:295-300; & G. Sandborgh- Englund, "Pharmacokinetics of mercury from dental amalgam", Gotab(Stockholm), 1998, 1-49. (20) H.V.Aposhian, Envir.Health Perspectives, Vol 106, Supp 4, Aug, 1998; & H.V. Aposhian et al, FASEB J, 6: 2472-2476, 1992. (21) J Pleva, "Mercury- A Public Health Hazard", Reviews on Environmental Health, 1994, 10:1-27. (22) C. Toomvali, "Studies of mercury vapor emission from different dental amalgam alloys", LIU-IFM-Kemi-EX 150,1988; & A. Berglund, "A study of the release of mercury vapor from different types of amalgam alloys", J Dent Res, 1993, 72:939-946; & D.B.Boyer, "Mercury vaporization from corroded dental amalgam" Dental Materials, 1988, 4:89-93; & V.Psarras et al, " Mercury vapour releases from dental amalgams", Swed Dent J,1994, 18:15-23; & L.E.Moberg, "Long term corrosion studies of amalgams and Casting alloys in contact", Act Odontal Scand 1985, 43:163-177; & L.E. Moberg, "Corrosion products from dental alloys", Published Dissertation, Stockholm, 1985. (23) H. Lichtenberg, "Mercury vapor in the oral cavity in relation to the number of amalgam fillings and chronic mercury poisoning", Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 1996, 11:2, 87-94. Source Average Human Daily Dose of MercuryDental Amalgam 3.0 - 17.0 ug/day (hgvapor)Fish and Seafood 2.3 ug/day (methylmercury)Other Food 0.3 ug/day (inorganichg)Air &Water Negligible traces(World Health Organization, Environmental Health Criteria 118: InorganicMercury, Geneva, 1991.) http://www.lichtenberg.dk/merc*ury_v...ral_cavit.h*tm Mercury from amalgams is the number one source in people. "Mercury has been demonstrated as one possible cause of Alzheimer's Disease, and the World Health Organization says *that people with amalgams get more mercury from their fillings than from all *other sources combined. http://es.epa.gov/ncer_abstrac*ts/sb.../roberts.ht*ml Cleanup of Dental Amalgam Waste To Meet Sewer Regulation Awarding Agency: National Institutes of Health SBIR Contract Number: R43ES507886 Title: Cleanup of Dental Amalgam Waste To Meet Sewer Regulat*ion Principal Investigator: Daryl L. Roberts Company Name: ADA Technologies, Inc. Honeywell Center, Suite 110 Englewood, CO 80112 Telephone Number: Business Representative: Project Period: Project Amount: $93,662 Research Category: Water Description: In the United States and abroad, there has been a great deal* of concern by the public and health officials over the detrimental health effe*cts caused by bioaccumulation of mercury in lakes and streams, resulting i*n regulatory limits for a variety of sources. Dental amalgam waste is attracting* substantial attention as a major contributor to the mercury burden of mu*nicipal water treatment plants. In response, local authorities are impleme*nting ordinances requiring dental offices to recover waste dental amalgam. Co*nventional technologies for removing waste amalgam from operatory disch*arge water have proven insufficient to meet stringent discharge limits (typi*cally 50 pg/L). In some cases, dental clinics have been forced to disconnect fr*om the sewer systems and have incurred expensive hazardous waste disposal* charges. ADA Technologies proposes to develop and test a novel system to *reduce mercury below 50 pg/L that will be comprised of a patented novel sor*bent for removing dissolved mercury, membrane filtration technology for removi*ng fine amalgam particles, and conventional technology for recovering the la*rge amalgam particles. The ADA sorbent has demonstrated the ability to r*emove ionic and elemental mercury from wastewater to levels below 1 g/L. Thi*s system will be available to thousands of commercial dental offices. http://www.toxicteeth.org/pres*sRoom...polluter*s.cfm THE NATION Dentists Biggest Mercury Polluters, New Study Finds Health: The metal is widely used in fillings and ends up in the nation's waste water. By ELIZABETH SHOGREN TIMES STAFF WRITER June 6, 2002 WASHINGTON - Coal-fired power plants are notorious for being the biggest source of mercury pollution in the air. But now, new attention is being directed at another, much less known source of mercury contamination in water--dentists. A new report shows that dentists are the largest single source of mercury pollution in waste water funneled into the nation's treatment plants. Mercury is a potent toxin that can damage the human brain, spinal cord, kidney and liver, and is especially dangerous for unborn children. While many other sources of mercury pollution have drastically cut their use of the heavy metal, dentists continue to use it widely in fillings. "Pretty much all the mercury they're using gets released into the environment. Why aren't they doing more to reduce that use?" said Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, a foundation-funded group that was one of the authors of the study. Power plants emit mercury into the air and it falls into streams and rivers. Many dentists flush it down their drains and it goes directly into waste-water treatment plants, which do not effectively filter it from the water. In a statement responding to the report, the American Dental Assn. said it was aware that some particles from fillings end up in waste water, and it urges dentists to follow proper procedures for handling and recycling the composite used for fillings, which they refer to as "amalgam." But the association argued that the mercury from their fillings remains in a form that is not harmful to humans. "However, a 1996 study found that when amalgam particles were subjected to simulated waste-water treatment processes, no soluble mercury was detected, even at a concentration of 1 part per billion," according to the statement. The group stressed that it was currently implementing a new plan to address the problem. The new report's authors said that dentists, through voluntary or mandatory measures, should trap their waste mercury before it flows into plumbing fixtures that have been contaminated with mercury for years. The report referred to a 2001 study by the Assn. of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies that evaluated seven major municipal waste-water treatment plants and determined that dental uses were "by far" the greatest contributors to the mercury reaching their facilities. They were responsible for 40% of the load, three times more than the next largest contributor. Several other countries regulate releases of dental mercury. In Canada, a new standard requires dentists to trap the pieces of filling before they go down the drain. The goal is to reduce releases by 95% by 2005. In May, the New Hampshire Legislature became the first in the nation to pass legislation governing disposal methods for dental mercury. The California Assembly considered a measure to phase out the use of mercury in fillings but did not adopt it. The report suggests that mercury in dentistry has become the exception while other major users of mercury have changed their practices. In 1985 dental facilities used 3% of all the mercury used nationwide. Last year, although dentists used less mercury, their use accounted for 20% of all uses. Only two other industries--wiring devices and switches and chloralkali--used more. Gina Solomon, a physician who focuses on the health effects of mercury for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that there was still controversy about whether the fillings put dental patients at risk. And she stressed that those who have such fillings should not get them removed, because taking them out heightens the chance of exposure. However, she said the science is clear that the mercury that goes down the drain can end up in the food chain. "There is scientific consensus that mercury that ends up in the waste water and water bodies will accumulate in the fish and pose a direct human health problem to people who eat the fish; that is uncontroversial and is something that can be fixed," |
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"LadyLollipop" wrote in message news:mSKle.11100$PS3.10032@attbi_s22... "Jeff" wrote in message link.net... wrote in message oups.com... *If* this child had documented elevated mercury levels, and *if* chelation fixed him, then he didn't have autism; he had mercury poisoning. Plus, the vast majority of mercury comes from the environment and food, not from vaccines. (Although I am glad that mercury isn't in most vaccines. Even though the dose is so small that it is not dangerous and doesn't cause any problems, the mercury is pooped or peed out, and gets into the environment. So that means by getting rid of the mercury from the vaccines, you reduce ever so slightly the amount of mercury going into the environment.) Jeff W R O N G http://www.positivehealth.com/permit...ist/dental.htm Dental Amalgam Fillings is the Number One Source of Mercury in People and Exposure Exceeds Government Health Standards for Inorganic mercury (vapor) Most kids don't have dental fillings with mercury. So the biggest source of mercury is not dental fillings in kids. Jeff |
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"LadyLollipop" wrote in message newsxKle.11590$Is4.2586@attbi_s21... "Jeff" wrote in message k.net... "Ilena Rose" wrote in message ... May God protect the doctors and parents speaking out on this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=health A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. The best way to promote the treatment is to prove that the treatment works. Is it? Do show us when convention medicine did that with the huge amount they use that NEVER has been proven to work The huge amount of what? You can't. You are once again blowing smoke. Is there any scientific evidence that supports the treatment? Like peer-reviewed articles that show the treatment works? Once again I ask you the same question. Unfortunately, you don't state what treatment you are talking about. Jefff Or is there just anecdote? Jeff http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/news/herald.pdf |
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