Could Mercury Cause Multiple Sclerosis?
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This article is from the Dental Amalgam FAQ, by anonymous.
Could Mercury Cause Multiple Sclerosis?
This is a harder and controversial question, but some
evidence indicates that this could be so. An extract below
indicates 498/500 random sampled MS patients had amalgam fillings.
Statistically the rate for normal people of the same age groups would
also be high, in the order of 470/500 - however, even so, 498/500
is statistically significant - despite the documents comments
(although it does NOT mean the all those people had it purely
caused by amalgam - just a raised statistical chance).
Many MS people develop illness before amalgam placement -
but remember, Hg can be transmitted from mother (with amalgams?)
to baby, and also there are other environmental sources of Hg
, and other suspect toxins that may also cause MS..
There are other publications indicating an amalgam/MS link too.
Unfortunately MS victims have been targeted by many people
proclaiming cures, including some who say that simple (and expensive)
amalgam removal ALONE will cure MS - by and large, this is not true,
since removing the amalgam will only have a slow effect on Hg
accumulated in the myelin of the brain - where the "half-life"
of mercury is very long - maybe in the order of decades.
Other supportative therapies are needed, and even then, there is
no guarentee of a cure.
Despite that, the idea does stand up to investigation, and
there is certainly no satisfactory refuting evidence to the
contrary. More research is desperately needed.
The dental amalgam issue. A review
Experentia 47(1991), Birkhauser Verlag, CH-4010 Switzerland,
Mats Hanson & Jaro Pleva.
"When the mercury etiology of acrodynia was clarified, the
possibility that MS was an adult form of acrodynia and a
neuroallergic reaction was considered. Baasch recognised
the possibility that amalgam fillings could be the
responsible source of mercury. He concluded that the
amalgam mercury etiology could explain the known facts
about MS. Baasch noted the presence or absence of amalgam
fillings in 500 consecutive MS patients in Zurich. All
but one (or possibly two) had amalgam fillings. However
amalgam fillings are common, so this finding proved nothing.
On the other hand there are other sources of mercury.
Three cases were described by baasch. Two of these had
thier amalgam fillings removed and the patients improved.
The third one showed a rapidly developing disease, starting
a few months after she got her first amalgam fillings at
19 years of age. When 8 years old she had been treated
with mercury for congenital syphilis."
Also make sure to read these books: Poison in Your Teeth: Mercury Amalgam (Silver) Fillings...Hazardous to Your Health! and Mercury Detoxification by Tom McGuire
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