Fluorosis causing bone, joint pain
To The Editor: Both fluoridation sides agree on two facts:
About half of ingested fluoride remains in the body, primarily in bone (more in children).
The average fluoridated American is now ingesting 3 to 6-plus milligrams of fluoride a day from water, food, toothpaste, mouthwash, pesticides.
If we take 4 milligrams a day as an average, two milligrams stay in the body so 365 days times 2 milligrams times 10.5 years equals 7,665 milligrams (or ppm) accumulated within the 10.5 years Hendersonville has been fluoridated.
The Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks (USDHHS publication, 1991, page 46) states:
"Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis with a bone ash concentration of 6,000 to 7,000 ppm fluoride is described by the U.S. Public Health Service as sporadic pain and stiffness of joints. Above 7,500 ppm the symptoms are 'chronic joint pain; arthritic symptoms; slight calcification of ligaments; increased osteosclerosis/ cancellous bones; with/without osteoporosis of long bones.' With more than 8,400 ppm in bone ash the symptoms are described as 'limitation of joint movement; calcification of ligaments/neck, vert. column; crippling deformities/spine & major joints; muscle wasting; neurological defects/ compression of spinal cord.'" (emphasis mine)
Got pain? Arthritis? Osteoporosis?
Think crippling skeletal fluorosis!
Janet Pettit
Saluda
About half of ingested fluoride remains in the body, primarily in bone (more in children).
The average fluoridated American is now ingesting 3 to 6-plus milligrams of fluoride a day from water, food, toothpaste, mouthwash, pesticides.
If we take 4 milligrams a day as an average, two milligrams stay in the body so 365 days times 2 milligrams times 10.5 years equals 7,665 milligrams (or ppm) accumulated within the 10.5 years Hendersonville has been fluoridated.
The Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks (USDHHS publication, 1991, page 46) states:
"Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis with a bone ash concentration of 6,000 to 7,000 ppm fluoride is described by the U.S. Public Health Service as sporadic pain and stiffness of joints. Above 7,500 ppm the symptoms are 'chronic joint pain; arthritic symptoms; slight calcification of ligaments; increased osteosclerosis/ cancellous bones; with/without osteoporosis of long bones.' With more than 8,400 ppm in bone ash the symptoms are described as 'limitation of joint movement; calcification of ligaments/neck, vert. column; crippling deformities/spine & major joints; muscle wasting; neurological defects/ compression of spinal cord.'" (emphasis mine)
Got pain? Arthritis? Osteoporosis?
Think crippling skeletal fluorosis!
Janet Pettit
Saluda
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