Mercury Poisoning

Mercury poisoning The Discovery article in March 2005 "Our Favorite Addiction" raises the issue of mercury poisoning. Author Karen Lai says, "Mercury has an unimaginable toxicity and danger.If dropping a drop of water in a person's hand could cause irreversible catastrophic damage.I believe that mercury is Because I did not think that it was such a fatal substance, the statement at the beginning of the article got my first attention.

Mercury poisoning is the result of exposure to mercury, it is a heavy metal that exerts serious toxicity on our health. Many studies have shown that high mercury exposure can cause central nervous system changes and poisoning and can also cause irritability, fatigue, behavioral changes, tremors, headaches, loss of hearing and cognition, hallucinations, even even death It shows that there is. Exposure to mercury can also adversely affect the cardiovascular system, leading to hypertension in humans and animals. (1) Mercury poisoning is not a health problem normally occurring overnight. It takes time for mercury levels to accumulate in the blood. Of course, mercury leaves body slowly through urine, feces, breast milk. However, if a large amount of mercury-rich fish is ingested, there is a possibility that mercury content actually decreases by one year after stopping intake of mercury-rich fish.

Mercury in any form is toxic, and the toxicity of mercury most often affects the nervous system, the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and the kidney system. Mercury vapor inhalation, mercury intake, mercury injection and absorption of mercury through the skin can cause poisoning. (See etiology and prognosis.) Mercury is available in three forms: (1) elemental mercury, (2) inorganic salts, and (3) organic compounds. Perhaps the most deadly form of mercury is methylmercury. Only 2-10% of the ingested mercury is absorbed from the intestine and no elemental mercury ingested is absorbed at all, but 90% of the ingested methylmercury is absorbed by the bloodstream from the gastrointestinal tract. (Please see the picture below.)

Ingestion is one of the most common methods of mercury poisoning; mercury is most commonly consumed with mercury in the form of organomethyl mercury. Methylmercury (also known as methyl mercury, monomethyl mercury or monomethyl mercury cation) is produced by two common processes; as a by-product of industrial production, microorganisms are formed by elemental and vaporized mercury finally into water When it reaches it will be produced. Unfortunately, methyl mercury enters the fish (and shellfish) organization. The more methylmercury present in the environment, the higher the concentration in fish tissue. Methylmercury is not removed from the fish's tissues; those who eat older fish, especially other fish (sharks, swordfish, tuna, marlin, etc.), their tissue methyl mercury will be higher. People who eat a lot of these fish may become poisoned