The Pink Disease support board...
An information gathering exercise by the Pink Disease Support Group has revealed a higher than average incidence auto-immune disorders, Bronchiectasis, Solar Urticaria, chemical sensitivities, allergies, eye and mouth problems, infertility, co-ordination difficulties, poor health, and a proneness to emotional and psychiatric disorders.
http://www.pinkdisease.org/ Also on that site how to get mercury out...
There are a number of different methods for removing mercury from the body. These include medical chelation via the use of prescribed drugs; the use of vitamins, minerals and nutrients; dietary means; homoeopathy; and amalgam removal..
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Baffled doctors put forward all sorts of theories as to its cause, from light sensitivities, allergies, viruses, nutritional deficiencies and infectious agents. The story behind the discovery of the cause of Pink Disease and the banning of the teething powders is one of the great medical detective stories of all time.
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Not all cases of Pink Disease are caused by teething powders; some babies were too young to have been teething and received the mercury in other forms, from the mother's diet to environmental factors.
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I've been to doctors for many complaints over the years and they've never told me that Pink Disease in fact is mercury poisoning...
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One of the reasons why there were so many theories about what caused Pink Disease was that the symptoms of the disease were so diverse and were similar to the symptoms that could be caused by various infections, vitamin deficiencies, poisoning and so forth.
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Mercury was in very common use for medicinal purposes up until the 1850's and it's been suggested that if any doctor had seen a baby with Pink Disease up until that time, they would have recognised the symptoms of mercury poisoning immediately because the symptoms of mercury poisoning were well known then.
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Dr. H. Swift, of Adelaide, first recognised Pink Disease when he was a physician at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London in 1885 and he described the disease at the Australasian Medical Congress in 1914, calling it "erythroedema".
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The symptoms of Pink Disease were well described by the early 1920's so the search for the cause began in earnest.
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The most common KNOWN cause of Pink Disease was mercury containing teething powders. In the English speaking Western World, the use of mercury in teething powders was banned in the 1950's. There were, and still are, numerous other household, industrial, natural, agricultural and medical sources of mercury in the environment.
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The breakthrough was published in The Lancet in 1949. By 1951 there were many confirmations of exposure to mercury of the sick children, but there were also many sceptics and strong opposition from the manufacturers of the powders.
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Take Care
Lynn
