Fluoride Toxicity Allergy - is
Fluoride Making You Sick?
David
McRae: published on EzineArticles.com
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Abdominal pain, weakness and tiredness, nasty headaches, joint pains without any reason - is that you
or a member of your family? Is there a simple cause and straight-forward solution, routinely
overlooked by about ninety five per cent of doctors?
Water fluoridation is provided for the majority of citizens in just a small group of countries including
than fifty percent of people using fluoridated water but is now down to about thirty five per cent, with
numerous cities discontinuing.
The prevailing wisdom in government health agencies and dental associations is that fluoridated water
cannot harm your health. But recent major studies, and clinical reports dating back 60 years, say otherwise.
In 2006 the US National Research Council published the report of its three year review of the
toxicology of fluoride in drinking water. It looked at all levels of fluoride from much higher than used in
fluoridation schemes through to lower levels. It found that there are clear risks to consumers, particular
vulnerable subsets such as infants using tap water with fluoride, kidney patients and the very large
numbers of people with thyroid disease or iodine deficiency. Many of the health risks detailed were long
term damage from many years of fluoride accumulation, but this article examines another kind of
vulnerable water consumer, those with allergy-like, rapid reactions to fluoride.
When fluoridation was first introduced in the
President of the
of patients suffering adverse reactions when their water became fluoridated. It was only proved to be
fluoride causing the sickness when patients spent time in another city free from fluoride, and returned
home getting sick each time. Clinical challenge tests were also performed in the surgery to confirm
diagnosis.
Two decades later exactly the same kinds of symptoms were discovered in large numbers of sufferers
in the
doctors had patients living in the fluoridated and non-fluoridated suburbs and noticed the difference,
leading to setting up the team to examine the fluoride illness scientifically. Fluoridation was abandoned,
and in fact outlawed by the Parliament, following the results of the trial headed by Dr Hans Moolenburgh.
This subset of people develop nasty toxic symptoms within hours, or a day or two of starting to use
fluoridated water. The symptoms come on like an allergy. These people are the two or three per cent
with extra high sensitivity to fluoride’s toxic action.
The kind of illness they develop ranges through colicky stomach and intestinal pains, severe headaches,
weakness and fatigue, skin rashes, mouth ulcers, worsening of allergic conditions including wheezy
breathing, blurred vision, excessive thirst and joint pains. The common themes are (a) nearly all have
fatigue that is not even relieved by sleep, and (b) symptoms come on quickly and can only be relieved
by completely avoiding all sources of fluoride.
Fluoridation has become so widely accepted in the handful of countries that favour it that sufferers are
simply hung out to dry, to take care of themselves. Some take years to discover the cause of their
suffering. Strangely, medical associations and journals rarely discuss it anymore. Propaganda from
health departments claims that fluoride allergy or toxicity does not exist. Sufferers find out by word of
mouth from friends or family, or from one of the more environmentally aware doctors or naturopaths
they might visit.
The only way to get well if you are suffering these fluoride symptoms is to either purchase very large
quantities of bottled, fluoride-free water, or fit the kind of expensive filter that removes fluoride.
Then you need to use the fluoride-free water for all of your drinking water, filling the kettle for hot
drinks, and cooking water. Some of the most sensitive sufferers even need to use fluoride-free water
for bathing, which becomes almost impossible to achieve in a fluoridated town.
The filters that can remove fluoride are reverse osmosis units, ion exchange resin type filters and
distillation. All are expensive and have their drawbacks. None are suitable for whole-of-house
filtration to purify bathing and showering water.
Finally, the sufferer who has identified fluoride as the culprit needs to avoid all bottled and canned
products made in a fluoridated city as these products may be made with tap water. Only painful trial
and error, usually lots of errors, leads to discovering the restricted regime that will enable you to
recover your health. Those who achieve it are eternally grateful, and naturally rather unhappy about
the political regime that continues putting the offending fluoride into their water, while keeping the
public in the dark about the harm it is causing.
Good luck; it is well worth pursuing this investigation and solution if you are suffering these problems
without yet discovering why you feel so rotten.
REFERENCES
1) Fluoride
Fatigue by Dr Bruce Spittle (book - Paua Press, 2008)
2) Court
Affidavit by Dr Hans Moolenburgh (Fond Du Lac, USA, 1993)
3) J J
Shea, S M Gillespie, and G L Waldbott. Allergy to Fluoride. Annals of Allergy 25 (7) 388-391 July
1967
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G. Allergic Reactions to Fluoride. Journal
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6) Personal
communication about case histories, with Philip Robertson – clinician at
Carmoora Clinic,