My 8 month old nephew died last week.

[Mnemosyne]

The doctors could never find anything other than his mother's mercury exposure (1970 to 1985?) to explain his "global" birth defects. They wouldn't deny it as a factor, but there are really no other explanations as far as I am concerned. And my sister was researching mercury after private conferences and I don't believe it was a coincidence, she had always poo-pooed the thought until recently. They told my sister and all the females in our family to not have more children. They looked for some gene that would explain his problems, thought there was some family recessive gene, but could find nothing.

The poor little soul seemed alright at first, except for 2 holes in his heart that were repairable. Then it became one thing after another. Problems with his kidneys, hydronephrosis. An abscess on his brain, "back wards" vocal cords?, hydrocephalus, possible blindness and deafness, never would walk, intestines dying, brain shrinking, the list goes on and on.

He never smiled or giggled and never would have. I only pray that the deterioration of his brain kept him from suffering too much.

Mercury hits the heart, kidneys and central nervous system the worst and his problems were mainly focused in those areas.

This little guy fought to the end,and when his parents finally decided to let him go, he left within a half hour, peacefully in his mother's arms.

The reason I am posting this is to help others understand the complexity of the damage that mercury is capable of causing in the body. Most will never have the exposure suffered by my family, but mercury is so deeply embedded into our environment now, ( and under bushler's policies, it's getting worse) that we really need to push to stop the complete and total devastation it will cause in future generations.

Pa. alone spews 9700 lbs. of this horror into the environment each year and it only takes a drop to render fish in a 10 acre lake inedible. Think about that, how many drops are in a pound, let alone 9700? More and more research is showing a link between autism and mercury, yet they are injecting this poison into babies right after birth in hepatitis vaccinations. What chance will these children have at healthy lives after such poisoning at birth? What will show up years down the road to destroy their lives or at the least cause health problems that interfere in their lives unnecessarily?

Many call me a fanatic where mercury is concerned, and I am. It devastated my entire life before anyone even guessed at what was causing some very serious health problems. I don't want others to suffer as I have, many do and never learn the basis for their suffering, ever.

The government denies the correlation between mercury and health problems, their paid researchers protect these corporate criminals, but much of the world is learning the truth and banning it in all possible aspects. Research that is paid for by the polluters and their government protectors/accomplices can not be taken seriously, it is only "researched" to keep costs down and profits up.

If you doubt that mercury devastates the brain as much as I'm saying watch this video from the University of Calgary. It shows how neurons from a snail's brain trying to grow shrivel when exposed to mercury. No other toxin caused this effect, only mercury.

http://www.virtustate.com/stories/storyReader$1352

And there is also the devastation that continues 45 years later in Minimata, Japan:

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aah07310/english/nowinenglish.html

Thanks for listening, I just needed to tell the horror our family has been through the last 8 months from what I truly believe were the effects of mercury exposure on the next generation.

Here are some links for those interested in the truth about mercury. There are hundreds more.

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=mercury&sp-a=00052225-sp00000001

http://www.altcorp.com/DentalInformation/hglinks.htm

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/fetaln.html

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/water/SEJHgStudy.pdf

http://search1.who.int/search?ie=utf8&site=who_main&client=who_main&proxystylesheet=who_main&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=utf8&q=mercury&btnG.x=9&btnG.y=2&btnG=Submit

Check out how much your area of the country spews out this poison:
http://www.maps.nrdc.org:8000/mercury/default.asp

Bless you all, and keep your children safer.

PROTECT THEM FROM MERCURY in ANY form!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :yourock:

[Cha]

1. I'm so sorry about what happened

to your nephew. :hug:

Yesterday a DUer was asking about the rise of autism and I said I had read that there were studies showing the mercury in the shots kids get.. connected to autism.

http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/1/autism_mercury.htm

That's just one link I found on the net.

[Mnemosyne]

18. Thank you, we're getting through it somehow, as all must

when faced with tragedy.

O8) :hi:

[AverageJoe]

I am so sorry for your loss

Thank you for this very brave post and for the much appreciated warning. God bless.

[Mitt Chovick]

2. Prayers going out for your whole family,

this is a tragedy.

[Mnemosyne]

19. Thanks so much!

everyone here are angels for their kindness!

:hi: O8)

[NMDemDist2]

3. I'm so sorry for your family's loss. It is a tragic crime that we are

poisoning our environment to this degree

:hug:

[Mnemosyne]

20. Thank you, it is horrible

to realize the extent of our toxic environment.

O8) :hi:

[kaygore]

4. I am so sorry for your loss

I agree that mercury is a deadly poison, but Bush and his "Christian" mob don't care. After all, the Rapture will be here soon so they won't have to live with the consequences of their actions, and the rest of us are not the right kind of Christians, so we get to live with their mess!

Specious thinking, but then that's the way they justify the evil that they do.

[Mnemosyne]

21. Thanks!

this administration should be drawn and quartered, they'd do it to others given half a chance.

:hi: O8)

[Go_Nukyuler_On_GOP]

5. Such a tragedy...

To such an innocent. Prayers.

[Mnemosyne]

22. Thank you for your prayers,

my sister and husband really need all they can receive.

O8) :hi:

[xultar]

6. I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

O8)

[Mnemosyne]

23. Thanks so much.

:hi: O8)

[hatrack]

7. My God, that is horrible! Please accept our sincere condolences.

I can't begin to imagine what this must be like for your family right now.

And I also can't imagine a better step than the one you're taking, making all the links in your post available as you have. I thank you, and I know the other E&E regulars do so, too.

[Mnemosyne]

24. Thank you.

The world needs to know and I'm not shutting up!
:grr: :nuke:

O8) :hi:

[Warpy]

8. I suppose somebody has bothered to test your sister

and suggested chelation therapy if her mercury load is high.

I suppose somebody has also suggested genetic counseling for all your family members of childbearing age should her mercury load be acceptable.

I suppose they've told you that mercury contamination can't be spread to family members like the common cold.

There ya go. Diagnosis and treatment. They're available.

[Mnemosyne]

26. It's not so simple Warpy.

I am not so ignorant as to believe that the contamination was "spread" like the common cold. thank you very much.

My father had to use bichloride of mercury (mercuric chloride) under then federal regulations to preserve milk samples, he was not told to take any precautions whatsoever. This poison was in our home every day for close to 20 years from 1965 to approx. 1985 ( Dad couldn't remember exact year stopped using it, had memory problems before he died). My 3 younger sisters were exposed in the womb from 1968 to 1973. The damage is now genetic and all the chelation in the world won't undo that.

[Desertrose]

9. I'm so sorry about your nephew.....

Heartbreaking.......my thoughts are with you & your family.

I do totally agree with you about the mercury.....I don't understand how anyone can deny the connections to so many problems.

I'm glad to be out of PA...but mercury is a problem everywhere nowdays:cry:

[Mnemosyne]

25. Thanks for your kindness.

:hi: O8)

[BamaBecky]

10. Heartbreaking.......so sad.......condolences to your family........we must

start protecting our environment...........

:cry: :hug:

[riverwalker]

11. so sorry for the loss of your little one

We eat a lot of fish in Minnesota, and with mercury advisories, it's limited now to once a week. But many kids eat more than that. It is terrifying.

[Mnemosyne]

27. Thanks so much.

My sis lives in MN., husband is border patrol there. My nephew was in Eugenio Litta?sp Children's Hospital. They are all so wonderful with all they tried to do to help him!!

O8) :hi:

[DemBones DemBones]

12. My deepest sympathies to your family. What a tragic life your

nephew had, though I'm hopeful that he sensed how much he was loved through it all.

When I learned years ago in a college chemistry class that breaking an ordinary oral thermometer filled with mercury in the SuperDome would soon cause all the air contained in that very large space to exceed OSHA and EPA limits for mercury exposure, I realized just how serious mercury poisoning is. Thanks you for all the links you've gathered for us.

[Mnemosyne]

28. Thank you for this.

Inhaled mercury is even more damaging than consumed. And that's what poisoned all of us.

Just want to warn everyone.

:hi: O8)

[serryjw]

13. I am so sorry for your families loss

This is something that most peopel know little about and I have a friend that says our fish is cataminated all the time. I will light a candle this evening for your family. All our prayers are with you. Thank you of thinking about us at this horrible time.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. poor little guy

this is heartbreaking

Having lost a precious son myself (many years ago) I kmow the heartache and pain of it



(((((((HUG)))))))))) from Jitterbug

[Mnemosyne]

29. Bless you for your efforts for my family.

My sister is the most devastated. She stayed with him the entire time, hoping and praying for a miracle. I actually believe that her hope and will kept him going for so long, more than medical science even. The spirit is so powerful!

O8) :hi:

[mahina]

15. Yet another irrefutable argument for renewable clean energy-

My heart just aches for you and your family. God bless and deep healing.

In case any ar enot aware, mercury enters our food chain through the burning of fossil fuels, esp. coal.

Prayers for your nephew and family. Aloha.

[Mnemosyne]

30. Thanks so very much for your kindness.

:hi: O8)

[applegrove]

16. My thoughts are with you & yours. I haven't taken the environment

very seriously..but I am about to.

[Mnemosyne]

31. Thank you,

I never realized just how badly the environment has become regarding mercury until I was diagnosed as toxic and started researching it. then my nephew came along. Mind-boggling!!

We all would be wise to pay much more attention. I'm afraid too many, myself included in the past, take our world for granted.

O8) :hi:

[bloom]

17. I'm so sorry to hear about your nephew.

It's quite a disgrace what our government is not doing (through the Clear Skies Act/delisting mercury as a hazard, etc.) about this.

I'm concerned for my grandchildren.


One of my threads about this (with various links):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=229&topic_id=958&mesg_id=958

--------
Links from the SEJHg Study you posted->

On Mercury and Health:

• Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals have produced materials on "healthy fish, healthy families" and a very readable “Clinician's Guide” with more extensive health information and guidelines for addressing mercury levels in the body. See http://www.mercuryaction.org/fish/. PSR also has produced several mercury fact sheets and links at www.mercuryactionnow.org.

• National Academy of Sciences, Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury (2000), online at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071402/html/.

• Mercury In the Environment: A Primer, authored by Bruce Lourie for Pollution Probe in Canada. For a free print copy of this 84-page, well-illustrated and accessible overview of mercury issues, email [email protected].

• The Natural Resources Defense Council has a web resource on "Mercury Contamination in Fish: A Guide to Staying Healthy and Fighting Back." Posted at http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/index.asp.

• "Smart Fish Calculator" -- an online tool from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy that "gives both anglers and shoppers a simple tool for calculating exactly how much of their catch to eat, to maximize the health benefits while reducing the health risks. The calculator uses federal government data to recommend servings of 31 different fish. See http://www.iatp.foodandhealth/fishcalculator/index.cfm.

• Brain Food: What Women Should Know about Mercury Contamination in Fish, a report from the Environmental Working Group released in 2001, contends that FDA fish consumption recommendations aren't protective enough to protect women and children from mercury contamination. The report can be found at http://www.ewg.org/reports/BrainFood/pr.html and CNN's coverage of this report's release can be found at: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/04/12/fish.pregnant/

• PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers examines issues surrounding mercury in fish in the 2003 show "Food Fight," focusing specifically on mercury in tuna and health effects in pregnant women and children, and the influence of the tuna industry on the FDA. http://www.pbs.org/now/science/mercuryinfish.html On Sources of Mercury and Campaigns to Reduce Mercury Exposures

• A “Mercury Summit: Eliminating the Market for Mercury-Containing Products” (December 2, 2004 in Washington, DC) brought together various non-governmental organizations to discuss state-level strategies and other opportunities to reduce or eliminate intentional sales of mercury in products such as automobile switches. Organizers of the Summit include Michael Bender (Mercury Policy Project, [email protected]), Linda Greer (Natural Resources Defense Council, [email protected]), and Felice Stadler (National Wildlife Federation, [email protected]).

• Health Care Without Harm spearheads a campaign to “make medicine mercury free” by eliminating uses of mercury in thermometers and other health care devices; some 1400 hospital facilities participate, along with numerous pharmacies. See http://www.noharm.org/mercury/issue.

• Clear The Air: National Campaign Against Dirty Power is a coalition of environmental, public health, and other organizations promoting tighter regulation of mercury and other emissions from coal-fired power plants; see www.cleartheair.org.

[Mnemosyne]

33. Thank you very much bloom,

for the kind words and for the further links. Some I haven't seen before, there are sooo many. I've done hundreds of hours research in the last year and it never fails to amaze me how many more links there are no matter how much I read and study.

My daughter had swollen lymph nodes, almost from birth, and no one could ever find the cause. After I learned about being poisoned I finally understood. My grandson also has swollen lymph nodes, so it continues. He is a bright child, but after his Hep.B vaccination, he forgot how to count!!! He's 4. And he has become moody and hyper often now.

Children do not need Hep.B vaccinations unless exposed by their mother. It is another way for the drug companies to make even more money with their getting legislation passed for more and more "required" vaccinations for childhood. All I can say is.. BASTARDS!!!
:mad: :grr: :nuke:

:hi: O8)

[bloom]

35. I was just reading about the lymph node connection

yesterday.

I was wondering about my lymph nodes being swollen and my search took me to this site (among others):

http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C586629.html

[Mnemosyne]

36. WOW bloom, more evidence to support the dangers from mercury!

I hadn't seen this one. My daughter was an infant when nodes started to swell, wish it had been amalgams, could get them removed at least. Great link, thank you.

Hope all goes well with your health, swollen lymph nodes that remain swollen are a sure sign something needs looked at further. Don't let it go too long! Do you have many amalgams or any? The more there are, the more toxic you are and the more it will affect your mental health, besides your physical health. The ADA claims that only an "insignificant" amount of merc is released and inhaled due to amalgams when you chew, grind your teeth( and who isn't with asshat in office?!)or drink something hot. However, consider how many times a day that you do any of those things! It adds up. And they lie to protect themselves. If mercury is shipped to dentists as hazardous material and disposed of as hazardous waste when removed from the mouth, how does it magically become "safe" in our mouths?!

Isn't this so horribly and frighteningly insidious?

Take good care!

[bloom]

42. I had a couple amalgams

taken out 2-3 weeks before the lymph node reaction. And I hate to say - I didn't have a dentist who took precautions about mercury removal like more aware dentists would do.

It didn't occur to me there would be a connection of mercury to lymph nodes if I hadn't done a search which led me to that site.

I still have about 10 amalgams in my mouth.

[lilymercury]

46. These things are a hidden time bomb for many,

seems no coincidence that you just had amalgams removed. I have 8 still and in the last 4 years have lost 2 back teeth due to destruction of the jawbone. Same tooth on each side in back and dentist baffled by the bone loss that occurred. I was too until I found out what merc does to bone.

It was good to discuss this with you and all here. Education remains only true defense. I know many now that are refusing to allow their children to have this poison placed in their mouths. Thank god!

:toast:

[halobeam]

32. What a tragedy. I am so sorry for your loss.

I looked at the map that NRDC has re: mercury levels in your area. I live on LI, NY. It looks real high here. My oldest son was born with a defect: tracheal stenosis. He had corrective surgery that was a success thank God. I call him my miracle because if he were born just years before, the failure rate of the surgery was very high. They don't know what causes the defect, they don't believe it's something genetic/hereditary. In my mind, I still wonder what the hell caused this. Who knows.

What corporations do, and society doesn't do, has a hand in all of our lives and those we love. Education/awareness is the key to change. I'll share your story if you'll let me, along with all your wonderful information you have provided. It's all I CAN do, I'm just one person. But that's how things have a chance of changing, one person at a time, until we are a very large bunch... impossible to ignore.

My best to you and your family.

[Mnemosyne]

34. Bless you halobeam.

I'm so thankful your son was so lucky. What a blessing!!

Feel free to share the story of my nephew, the more that are educated the better!!! Thank you!

I continue to spread the word, last year I enlightened many at our local hospital and small community. One nurse was having the beginning of Alzheimer's very early,as had her father before, and she remembered he had worked on gas wells years ago when they used mercury to frac the wells. She has some answers now and a chance to try to stave off such a terrible condition. I cried I was so happy for her, she was so afraid and had no clue why this illness was striking her so young. I'm sure genes affected how early she was presenting symptoms also, but with the mercury exposure added, poor woman.

Some are never really effected much from mild exposure, but many are sensitive and it is devastating, and they may never know what destroyed their health. Doctors end up frustrated with some of the vague, unrelated symptoms and send poor souls to shrinks out of their ignorance. :mad:

:hi: O8)

[AwakeAtLast]

37. {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Words cannot express how sorry I am for this terrible loss. It is somehow more seriously tragic that an infant should die because of something that can be environmentally controlled.

Please extend my condolences to your family as well. I will keep your family in my thoughts and prayers.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[roguevalley]

38. There can be nothing worse than this. You and your family have

my deepest sympathies.

[Mnemosyne]

39. Thank you so much rogue, unfortunately it is worse for many in Iraq.

depleted uranium. The sorrow that it has caused is far worse than what my family has gone through. We spent 8 months, the Iraqis have been suffering since the first Gulf war nuked them subtly ( and the rest of the world!! :cry: My heart aches for all.


O8) :hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

40. I'm so sorry for your family's tragic loss.

You are all in my thoughts and prayers.

[lilymercury]

44. Thank you Midlodemocrat,

and please pray for all poisoned by the horror that is depleted uranium.

O8) :hi:

[flvegan]

41. Wow, I don't know what to say except that I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry for what your nephew went through, and what your family and loved ones must be going through now.

May somebody, somewhere learn from this.

Stay fanatical.

[lilymercury]

45. Thanks much flvegan,

and I intend to remain fanatical, not just over mercury, but all heinous toxins being spewed into the world our children and grandchildren will inherit!!

:hi: O8)

[BrklynLiberal]

43. TEST YOUR MERCURY LEVELS. Order a kit thru Greenpeace.

Waterkeeper Alliance has teamed up with Greenpeace and the University of North Carolina to offer you the opportunity to test your mercury levels.

http://www.waterkeeper.org/mainarticledetails.aspx?articleid=176

You can order a hair sampling kit for $25.
Thee are links to this via Greenpeace, Sierra Club and Waterkeeper.
They must be innundated right now. I have timed out several times in my attempts to get to the site. Keep trying.

[pstans]

49. According to this article by RFK Jr.

"We know that one out of every six American women of childbearing years now has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases: cognitive impairment; mental retardation; autism; blindness; kidney, liver or heart disease. I have so much mercury in my body, I was told by Dr. David Carpenter, who is the national authority on mercury contamination, that if I were a woman of childbearing years and produced a child, that the child would have cognitive impairment, and, he estimated, a permanent IQ loss of five to seven points. There are 630,000 children born in this country every year who have been exposed to dangerous levels of mercury in the womb."

Here is the link: http://www.earthlight.org/2005/essay52_kennedy.html

My wife and I are in our mid 20's and are going to start in a family in the next year or so. I won't start to think about it until she gets tested for the amount of mercury in her system.

[MountainLaurel]

47. I'm so sorry

May I ask a question? In what forms and through what means was your sister exposed to mercury?

[Mnemosyne]

48. Thank you.

see post 26.

[Maestro]

50. My God! I am sorry.

Please send my condolesences to the family and I think I am going to hug my little ones just a little more today. Let's fight these bastards that continue to pollute our planet! :mad: :cry: :grouphug:

[Mnemosyne]

51. Thank you Maestro.

I sure have been hugging my grandson closer.
:hug: O8)
And the battle continues! :toast:

Thanks for having a great heart!:hi: :grouphug:

I can't forget those being poisoned by depleted uranium either, the soldiers and the Iraqi people suffer even more!:grr: :nuke:

[Mugweed]

52. I'm sorry for the loss

but what was the mercury toxin level found during the autopsy? Where did the parents live? What was nearby? Coal-fired power generation plant, waste-to-energy-plant?

I don't trivialize the loss; I just want to be able to trace causes.

[NVMojo]

53. And the Bush Cheney cocksuckers are doing everything they can

to promote mercury spewing coal fired power plant construction in the West. We are all just risidual by-products of waste in their way, they only care about our wallets.

[formercia]

54. I'm so very sorry for your loss.

But it also makes me very angry because 20 years ago, I tried to get people to listen about the danger of Mercury in Alkaline Batteries, even to the point of trying to convince a reporter to write a story and I was shut down by people connected with Bush 41 because they were big buddies with one of the major battery manufacturers. It's too late because the woods and countryside are littered with little D, C, AA sized drums of toxic waste that are slowly corroding and someday will unleash an ecological disaster.