Something I never knew...mercury poisoning and crohns...

Here's one of many links I found that link crohns, colitis and even IBS to mercury poisoning...I never knew this, did anyone eles ever hear of this?

http://curezone.com/dental/mercury_symptoms.asp

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Also, I'm having troubles with the anti-spam filter again, anyone eles?

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My bum is broken....there's a big crack down the middle of it!  LOL  :)

Post Edited (pb4) : 9/18/2007 1:12:46 PM (GMT-6)

This is pseudo-science bunk. Plain and simple. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

Sorry for being so blunt but I get frustrated with psuedo-science.

I'm a scientist and I just did a search of all of the scientific articles ever written and there's no study linking mercury poisoning to Crohn's disease, any form of IBD, or IBS. I would be careful with information gathered from google searches, because it's often inaccurate. Here's a link where you can search scientific articles http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez, which includes any articles that has ever been written in scientific journals. I was just reading a few months ago that the harmful effects of eating fish during pregnancy is just a myth with no data to support it. There's actually a lot of data now that eating fish is very beneficial for non-pregnant and pregnant individuals due to the beneficial effects of omega 3. It's rare for fish in the US to have high enough mercury levels to be damaging and most reports of mercury poisoning are based on fish from other countries (with more pollutants in the water), but you can look at the degree of mercury in fish and eat the ones with higher mercury not as often. Here's the fda's last report on levels of mercury in a variety of fish http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/sea-mehg.html. As you can see, usually the levels range from undetectable to very low. I hope this was useful.

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Female, 30. Diagnosed August 2007 with Crohn's Colitis, but diagnosis is not complete, yet. Asacol 800 mg 2x day. Prednisone 30 mg (tapering). Orthotricyclin Lo, Calcium, Trinity (probiotics), and multivitamin.

When I was a kid, my dentist would give me little vials of mercury to take home to play with. I used to dump out the mercury on my nightstand, squish the ball of mercury with my fingers and then gather the little balls back up. By the time I was done playing with it, most of the mercury was probably in the carpet in my bedroom. Years later, when I discovered how toxic mercury is, I worried that I could have some lingering effects from the mercury exposure. Just one more of those things - what you don't know, CAN kill you!

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CD dx'd Aug 05. Initially on Pentasa, now on Imuran 125 mg and iron.

I'd be surprised considering how low the rate of Crohn's disease is among Japanese, with their all fish all the time diet.