Comments: My son is 17 years old, He has Lennox-gastaut syndrome (seizure
> disorder) microcephaly, c.p and hes severly retarded with no speech. He has
> been thru every test and had every cause ruled out. The Dr.s Explantation was:
> Sometimes things just happen. I gave up looking for reasons WHY this happened
> to my son, Then last year, for some reason I put in Rhogam and seizures in the
> search bar on my computer...Boy was I surprised! Then I started looking up
> mercury poison...My son has the classic syptoms. So I called a mother who has
> a child with Lennox (her child had died last year at age 16) She told me to
> have My sons baby hair tested..(Im glad I was one of those moms who saved her
> babys hair). His baby hair at age 7 months was 13.78! A healthy adult is 1.58.
> I felt sick to my stomache. All these years of the Drs telling me that "Things
> just Happen". My son can not go thro chelation because he is on seizure
> medicine. and I also read that mercury damage is irreversible. He has never
> eaten fish, (he has to eat pureed foods) Never had a filling. Im so disgusted
> that my child and other children were poisoned and the government allowed it
> to happen! Well from a mother that has been pained with a child that will
> always need 24 hour medical care.




It should be noted that this research study compared equal doses of
methylmercury and thimerosal. However, thimerosal is only 1/2 mercury
(ethylmercury), so the authors should have compared 1/2 dose
thimerosal
with 1 dose methylmercury. The conclusion would then be that
ethylmercury is equally potent to methylmercury in increasing Ca2++.
The
study also says that unlike methylmercury (which is usually bound to
cysteine in a cell) thimerosal's potency is unaffected by presence of
L-cysteine in the neuron, so under in vivo conditions the effects of
ethylmercury are likely greater (by a factor or 2) than methyl.
Finally,
the study shows that thimerosal is more potent than methyl in
decreasing
glutathione levels in the cell, which is what other researchers
have/are
finding as well.
:
> Methyl-mercury, usually from contaminated food, is very dangerous
to
> pregnant women. Methyl-mercury causes profound mental retardation,
> cerebral
> palsy, seizures, spasticity, tremors, and incoordination, along
with
> eye and
> hearing damage in the unborn baby as a result of the mother's
> exposure.
> Organic mercury passes into the breast milk as well.
>
>
>
> The effect of thimerosal, an organomercurial preservative in
> vaccines, on cerebellar neurons dissociated from 2-week-old rats
was
> compared with those of methylmercury using a flow cytometer with
> appropriate fluorescent dyes. Thimerosal and methylmercury at
> concentrations ranging from 0.3 to 10 microM increased the
> intracellular concentration of Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in a concentration-
> dependent manner. The potency of 10 microM thimerosal to increase
> the [Ca2+]i was less than that of 10 microM methylmercury. Their
> effects on the [Ca2+]i were greatly attenuated, but not completely
> suppressed, under external Ca(2+)-free condition, suggesting a
> possibility that both agents increase membrane Ca2+ permeability
and
> release Ca2+ from intracellular calcium stores. The effect of 10
> microM thimerosal was not affected by simultaneous application of
30
> microM L-cysteine whereas that of 10 microM methylmercury was
> significantly suppressed. The potency of thimerosal was similar to
> that of methylmercury in the presence of L-cysteine. Both agents
at
> 1 microM or more similarly decreased the cellular content of
> glutathione in a concentration-dependent manner, suggesting an
> increase in oxidative stress. Results indicate that thimerosal
> exerts some cytotoxic actions on cerebellar granule neurons
> dissociated from 2-week-old rats and its potency is almost similar
> to that of methylmercury.