More mercury in a can of tuna

[Guest guest]

Hi

I have herd the phrase " There is more mercury in a can of tuna " 3

times from three different health care professionals. This after

trying to give my 14yr old aspie/ocd a themirisol laced flu shot. I

told her about the 5x the EPA's recommended exposure for an adult.

She informed me ethyl mercury does not pass blood/brain barrier. I

told her there is atleast one study to the contrary. My question for

people here is How much methyl mercury is in a can of tuna? More

importantly how do you talk to docs and others who obviously repeat

what they are told (by who knows who)without them writing you off as

one of those " mercury parents " .?

[Guest guest]

For one thing, tuna goes through the digestive system and the shot is put directly into the bloodstream.

Barb

More mercury in a can of tuna

HiI have herd the phrase "There is more mercury in a can of tuna" 3times from three different health care professionals. This aftertrying to give my 14yr old aspie/ocd a themirisol laced flu shot. Itold her about the 5x the EPA's recommended exposure for an adult.She informed me ethyl mercury does not pass blood/brain barrier. Itold her there is atleast one study to the contrary. My question forpeople here is How much methyl mercury is in a can of tuna? Moreimportantly how do you talk to docs and others who obviously repeatwhat they are told (by who knows who)without them writing you off asone of those "mercury parents".?

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Hi-

I HATE that argument... I also have a good answer to it. When I was

working with State Rep May (Il) on a big mercury forum that we

did a year ago with Kirby and others, I had a chance to get to

know some people who deal with mercury in its other forms.

For example, I met a man who runs a small business that extracts the

mercury from things like light bulbs. His plant has to have very

careful air circulation systems and testing equipment to keep the

workers safe. They did an experiment one day in which they opened a

can of tunafish in the middle of the plant. Every alarm system went

off triggering calls to multiple haz-mat agencies that are on-call

in case of spills etc. He said that it was very very disturbing and

he has, needless to say, never eaten tuna again.

As a side note, I also had the chance to speak with a man who is an

activist on behalf of the fish. And he talked about how the mercury

toxic fish become sterile and also lose their ability to keep

themselves safe in dangerous situations. I was so disturbed by the

similarity to our kids!!

andra

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As Barb pointed out, if you ingest mercury you have the opportunity to excrete it. If you inject mercury it goes straight to the blood stream. They are comparing injected ethyl versus ingested methyl mercury and the two are not comparable. Plus how many infants eat a can of tuna and how much more does an adult weigh that a small infant. Finally, the University of Washington study showed that injected ethyl mercury is more toxic to the brain than injested methy mercury (via a primate study). Also Columbia University created autism in rats via the 1990s infant vaccine schedule. Verajromkema <jromkema@...> wrote: For one thing, tuna goes through the digestive system and the shot is put directly into the bloodstream. Barb More mercury in a can of tuna HiI have herd the phrase "There is more mercury in a can of tuna" 3times from three different health care professionals. This aftertrying to give my 14yr old aspie/ocd a themirisol laced flu shot. Itold her about the 5x the EPA's recommended exposure for an adult.She informed me ethyl mercury does not pass blood/brain barrier. Itold her there is atleast one study to the contrary. My question forpeople here is How much methyl mercury is in a can of tuna? Moreimportantly how do you talk to docs and others who obviously repeatwhat they are told (by who knows who)without them writing you off asone of those "mercury parents".?