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Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician’s Dilemma
Why do physicians fail to correctly evaluate the toxicity of fluoride? Most textbooks rely on the now outdated views of Smith and Hodge who 25 years ago designated 5 to 10 g of fluoride the fatal toxic dose.
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The Minimum Dose that Produces Acute Fluoride Toxicity
Early symptoms of acute fluoride poisoning include gastric pain, nausea, vomiting, and headaches. Studies have found that these symptoms are produced by a single ingestion of just 0.1 to 0.3 mg/kg (i.e., 0.1 to 0.3 milligrams of fluoride for every kilogram of bodyweight). A
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The Minimum Lethal Dose of Fluoride
The minimum dose of fluoride that can kill a human being is currently estimated to be 5 mg/kg (5 milligrams of fluoride for each kilogram of body weight). This dose is referred to in the medical literature as the “Probable Toxic Dose” or “PTD.” The dose is sufficient to cause severe poisoning, and in the absence […]
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Water Overdosed with Fluoride: 5 towns in Marin affected
Water to five West Marin conmunities last month was overdosed accidentally with up to eight times the accepted level of fluoride for about two weeks, it was disclosed Thursday. The excessive concentration of the chemical, a health hazard according to its critics even at normal levels, was injected into water pumped from Marin Municipal Water […]
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$750,000 Given in Child’s Death in Fluoride Case: Boy, 3, Was in City Clinic for Routine Cleaning
A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 to the parents of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of fluoride at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale Hospital […]
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Acute Toxicity
At high doses, fluoride is a potent poison that is almost on par with arsenic. Fluoride’s potency explains why it was used for years as a rodenticide (to kill rodents) and why it is still being used as a pesticide (to kill bugs). It also explains why the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) now requires […]