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they say a broken thermometer poses threat , because elemental mercury vapourizes in room temperature, so once ingestsed and being in a person's GI track for at least 24h, how do we know it doesn't vapourize there, temperature there being HIGHER than room temperature? Plus there is the methylation issue from candida/bacteria in the GI track.

What does everybody think? Is ingestng mercury from a thermometer really that harmless?

Don't know but you can add me to the list of people who bit down on a thermometer in the hospital at age 2 and swallowed some mercury. And yes I suspected mercury poisoning before I found out about this. It's one of a few "X-factors" as to why I think I have a worse case of mercury poisoning than my younger brother, even though we got the same vaccinations, amalgams and genetic susecptability.

So I don't know just providing some "anecdotal evidence" for the "swallowed mercury might be harmful" position... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />