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Toothpaste in US carries warning
Les Granges Gajoubert France
A little more information in addition to the excellent letter on December 3 from Ann Wills on fluoride.
Ann is quite right – the fluoride in toothpaste is not the same as the toxic fluoride industrial waste added to tap water.
However the pharmaceutical grade fluoride in toothpaste is also toxic and over 20,000 people, mainly children, report to poisons units in the USA every year with fluoride poisoning from toothpaste alone.
A few 100 of these cases require some medical care and there was a death in 2002.
Toothpaste in the USA now carries a warning about the dangers of swallowing it as children sometimes do. I also found a report that the US now only allows an amount of fluoride in one tube, which is considered below that of a lethal dose if the whole tube is swallowed. The problem is some people are more susceptible to the effects.
A poisons unit in the Dudley Hospital, Birmingham, points out that fluoride poisoning cases are being overlooked in the UK as most cases report with some sores or burns and the systemic effects, which invariably follows sores and burns, are overlooked. Calcium and magnesium are used to treat fluoride poisoning as these are essential for life and are destroyed in fluoride poisoning cases.
Edward Priestley
Fellow, European Medical Association
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