Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 Bud, Is he around any smokers? Carol G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 You can find lots of references to human studies on antimony tox by going to www.nap.edu and viewing the chapter on antimony in the book " mineral tolerance of domestic animals. " you won't find this stuff in medline, it is too old. Andy > I have an autistic (late onset) grandson, age 4, who has shown a high concentration of antimony by hair analysis and am seeking information and references regarding antimony toxicity. Like many or most of us he lives in a house with mattresses, carpets and other items that may have been treated with antimony containing compounds. I will be very grateful for any information posted on this site or sent to my e-mail address. > > > As a reader of posts at this site for the past three months I want to express my gratitude for all the information received here > Sincerely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 > I have an autistic (late onset) grandson, age 4, who has shown a high concentration of antimony by hair analysis and am seeking information and references regarding antimony toxicity. Like many or most of us he lives in a house with mattresses, carpets and other items that may have been treated with antimony containing compounds. I will be very grateful for any information posted on this site or sent to my e-mail address. > > > As a reader of posts at this site for the past three months I want to express my gratitude for all the information received here > Sincerely, > > Bud Bud, Antimony is a rather strange metal in the way that it distributes itself in the body - hair analysis often turns up quite a bit even if the overall body burden is reasonably low. Antimony is another toxic heavy metal, similar in many respects to arsenic. It is hard to know from hair analysis if the antimony is " causing " autism or is just an incidental finding. Antimony is used as a flame retardant in carpets and is often picked up by those who spend a lot of time crawling and rolling around on carpet - such as children. Pajamas and bedding also use boron compounds as flame retardants, so they may not be the source of the antimony. Tobacco smoke has a fair amount of antimony as well as other noxious chemicals we are more familiar with. Depending on where you live, the ground water may also have significant amounts of antimony. Antimony is removed by the same agents that remove (chelate) mercury and most other heavy metals. Hope this helps. Jim Laidler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 Also, I understand that antimony may be used as a flame retardant in children's sleepwear and bedding. For that reason, we do not use any products treated with flame retardants for our sons. Both showed high antimony levels in hair analysis. Selina > You can find lots of references to human studies on antimony tox by > going to www.nap.edu and viewing the chapter on antimony in the book > " mineral tolerance of domestic animals. " you won't find this stuff in > medline, it is too old. > > Andy > > --- In @y..., " Bud and Jo Price " <bnjprice@s...> wrote: > > I have an autistic (late onset) grandson, age 4, who has shown a > high concentration of antimony by hair analysis and am seeking > information and references regarding antimony toxicity. Like many or > most of us he lives in a house with mattresses, carpets and other > items that may have been treated with antimony containing compounds. I > will be very grateful for any information posted on this site or sent > to my e-mail address. > > > > > > As a reader of posts at this site for the past three months I want > to express my gratitude for all the information received here > > Sincerely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2001 Report Share Posted February 16, 2001 My recent request for references regarding antimony toxicity produced a response from Andy Cutler. I'm very grateful for this reply and recommend the reference to anyone interested (Read chapter on antimony toxicity, available at www.nap.edu, in the book,"Mineral Tolerance of Domestic Animals"). I am also grateful for the other responses received and would appreciate further references if available. My own search has been quite unrewarding. Thank you Andy. Bud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2001 Report Share Posted February 17, 2001 > Antimony is removed by the same agents that remove (chelate) mercury > and most other heavy metals. This is news to me. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2001 Report Share Posted February 17, 2001 > > Antimony is removed by the same agents that remove (chelate) mercury > > and most other heavy metals. > > This is news to me. > > Andy Obviously, Jim Laidler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2001 Report Share Posted February 17, 2001 > > > Antimony is removed by the same agents that remove (chelate) > mercury > > > and most other heavy metals. > > > > This is news to me. > > > > Andy > > Obviously, > > Jim Laidler Strange that both the medical literature and people's clinical lab results indicate otherwise. Would you care to provide support for your statement? If true it would be quite useful to many on the list, so whatever evidence you have of any sort would be well appreciated. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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