Tag: Fluoride poisoning
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Acute Fluoride Poisoning.
RECENTLY, the writer was consulted about treatment of acute fluoride poisoning, in view of the increasing use of fluorine and fluorine containing compounds in industries. In outlining the treatment recommended, a point which was stressed was that, aside from death due to the corrosive action of the poison, death may result very rapidly from reduction […]
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Concerning baking soda-sodium fluoride poisonings in San Francisco.
To the Editor: You have, no doubt, read of the recent deaths in San Francisco of some persons from accidental poisoning by sodium fluoride. These cases are more remarkable in that there is so little in our medical literature relating to their occurrence. Herzog Medical Jurisprudence mentions cases in not recent accidental and suicidal poisonings […]
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Sulfuryl Fluoride Poisonings in Structural Fumigation, a Highly Regulated Industry-Potential Causes and Solutions.
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Acute fluoride poisoning alters myocardial cytoskeletal and AMPK signaling proteins in rats
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Acute fluoride poisoning associated with an on-site fluoridator in a Vermont elementary school.
Results Of the 44 vendors who attended the farmers market, 40 (91 per cent) were contacted. Inclusion of their family members brought the total subjects to 82; of these, 22 (27 per cent) reported a characteristic illness on the day of the market. All had onset of symptoms between 8:30 and 10:30 am. Of […]
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Exposure to excessive fluoride during hemodialysis.
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Mass intoxication from accidental overfluoridation of drinking water.
The literature reveals several episodes of acute mass poisoning due to sodium fluoride which had been mistaken for flour, sugar, and baking powder and added to food [1]. The number of persons affected ranged from 5 to 280. The most severe accident -with 47 deaths occurred in Salem, Oregon, where a helper in the kitchen […]
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Fluoride overfeed at a well site near an elementary school in Michigan.
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Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school.
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Outbreak of acute fluoride poisoning caused by a fluoride overfeed, Mississippi, 1993.