They said that mercury was good for babies in the 1940's and 50's and put it in teething powders -60% - to kill parasites which they thought was to blame for the discomfort babies were in during the teething process. There were already warnings by doctors in the 40's but it was ignored and 25% of the babies were dying. In the 50's they worked out that the babies were dying of dehydration, so they began to save some of them through saline drinks. During the 50's they were taken off the market, after many babies had been affected int he UK US and Australia. I was one of them and was in hospital for 6 weeks, pretty seriously ill with what they named it as 'Pink's Disease' due to the redness of the extremities which is a symptom of acute mercury poisoning. There is a support group in Australia for us but it is not active. The ones I have heard of have chronic health problems and some got their amalgams out. The leader of the group did. She improved a little but not enormously. She did not get a good bio-dentist though and another who became very ill did not either. As their were degrees of the damage done to the babies it is not possible to say whether I will be able to cope with it especially as I had another exposure to mercury from playing with it and then a pesticide exposure.

It looks like a conspiracy sometimes, to get the damn stuff into us <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />