What is mercury poisoning?
mercury poisoning is a common phrase for mercuralism , a state caused by mercury -absorbing body, either in its elementary form or in a compound. Mercury is heavy metal, liquid at room temperature and is easy to absorb the skin. It is a neuro-toxin that can seriously damage the human nervous system and brain.
mercury poisoning was commonly observed in the creators of the HAT, because the compound of mercury was felt. Hatters, who did not know about the risk of skin mercury, treated felt and went crazy for some time from mercury poisoning. This led to the phrase "Mad as Hatter", which in turn led to Alice in Wonderland with a crazy hat. The mercury poisoning is less predominant than it was in the bad old times, but it can still be concerned. The most common source of high levels of mercury today is fish consumption of contaminated mercury.
Mercury in the ecosystem is almost impossible to remove, and once the fish habitat is contaminated, the fish that live there absorb it.Most fish do not live long enough to create significant mercury burden and therefore it is not dangerous to consume. But predators, such as sharks, not only absorb mercury from their environment; They also gain the burden of the mercury of all fish they consume. Therefore, a shark and other fish predators could pose a risk of mercury poisoning if consumed.
This means that the level or older shark is not significant enough to damage the adults. The risk is greater in children or pregnant women who could pass on mercury poisoning to their unborn child. It is recommended that pregnant women or women plan to become pregnant with delay in food of certain types of fish known to have higher than normal mercury concentrations.
The human body cannot, do not process and remove me from the brain and the nervous system. Therefore, in the case of mercury poisoning, radical therapies are needed to remove contaminants. Chelarage Therapy is the currently used therapy in which chelating substances are introduced. Chelarage substances can form links with poisonous heavy metals and then the created compound can be eliminated.
Recent discussion on mercury poisoning is the claim of parents of children with autism that their child's condition was caused by immunization shots from childhood containing the preservative that included mercury compound. Centers for disease control have denied that the connection exists, but indirect autistic symptoms often occur shortly after one or two years of immunization and the condition is much more rare in populations that do not provide child shots. Drug companies no longer retain their drugs using a compound containing mercury, but it could not harm the planned shots.