I am no professional and I would only take some of what me or anybody on here says with caution, unless they are a certified doctor or biochemist qualified in this area of medicine but I would "suggest" that you stop drinking ANY hot fluids whilst you are breastfeeding your child.

The heat from any hot drink causes an increase of mercury coming off your already unstable amalgam.

No they are not safe at all, but anything that makes them more unstable like drinking hot drinks, or removing them, you have to be ready for an increase of exposure. Even chewing increases it, but you cannot stop dong everything, you have to eat etc. But you can slow down the offgassing of mercury more by steering clear of hot fluids (tea, coffee or whatever it is) for the time you are breastfeeding.

There are not real accurate tests for mercury toxicity. Because most of the time, mercury is too bound up and often is not always readily excreted, so unlikely to show much. People who are acutely poisoned, can sometimes how a high level. but chornically poisoned is normally not overly accurate.

You can sometimes tell if you have mercuy toxicity by getting a hair test done adn looking at the mineral levels and seeing which ones are deranged and there is often a pattern to look for, because mercury distrubs particular minerals in the body and other things.

Often diagnosing mercury is not so much looking for mercury itself, but looking at the problems it causes and things it disturbs. Mercury is too good at hiding and many people retain it too strongly for it to show up. Also some people can have very low levels on testing, but are retaining it deeply so they could be very poisoned but not show it on testing.

Or, the low levels could really mean low mercury but that the person may well have a total intolerance to even very small levels of mercury.

Just as some people show high levels and they might either be posioned, or they can have high mercury but showing they are excreting it out into the hair etc.

And some have high levels but are not bothered by it, either because they are not affected much by mercury, or they are simply eliminating it more easily, hence it shows up.

So there are so many variables for levels of mercury that I don't know how a doctor or any health professional can base a diagnosis simply on a mercury "level". EVerything has to be taken into account before they can figure out what is going on.

If a person displays signs of mercury toxicity, if they have amalgams or HAD amalgams, or if they have eaten a lot of fish, or they are perhaps living near some coal burning plant etc etc, then it is highy likely they do have mercury toxicity in some form. Basically if it smells like a rose, looks like a rose, generally it is one.

You may wish to get in touch with this biochemist Andy Cutler on think link. THese are his contact details. You can email him or phone him if necessary to tell him about this. http://www.noamalgam.com/vita.html

He is a biochemist and has studied mercury poisoning for many many years. He treats both adults and children and has a great deal of knowledge in all areas of toxicity and will no doubt be able to advise you on the safest course of action during this time of breast feeding, with this unstable problem amalgam you have.

Hope that helps a little.