Platinum Testing - Very important

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Please note Dr. Ernest Lykissa, forensic toxicologist,

formerly worked for Baylor College of Medicine in

Houston, Tx. He now owns his own lab with his wife

Loretta (an environmental engineer) called ExperTox,

Inc., 1803 Center St., Deer Park, Tx. 77536 (located

near Houston in our industrial, chemical complex).

Dr. Lykissa uses state of the art equipment called an

ICP-MS (which can detect platinum in parts per

billion) and an Ion Chromatograph (to determine

ionization). It is recognized by the scientific

community that " platinum salts " (aka chloroplatinic

acid) can cause systemic disease in humans as a result

of toxic and/or hypersensitivity reactions. These

toxic and hypersensitivity reactions can range from

asthma, rhinorrhea, tinnitus, conjunctivitis,

urticaria, fatigue syndrome secondary to impaired

oxygen exchange, neurotoxicity, sicca syndrome, and

macular rashes. Dr. Ray Biagini, Director Research

Scientist/Research Toxicologist at CDC/NIOSH states

that soluble salts of platinum are the most potent

chemical sensitizers known to man.

Dow documents indicate chloroplatinic acid 3-8015 INT

(PLATNM2) was used in mammary implant material

formulation.

Dow notified the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention

and Toxics of substantial risk in a guinea pig

sensitization study of Dow Corning 3-8015 Intermediate

(Platinum #2) on 12/27/96. Dow apparently convinced

the FDA in a meeting on 3/18/97 that any platinum that

leaked from breast implants was harmless and in small

amounts.

Published German Research (2003) using ICP-HR-IDMS

states " the highest concentration (of platinum) was

found in the fat tissue from woman A who had a

" bleeding " implant. In the fibrin layer of woman C, a

higher platinum concentration was registered than in

her capsule tissue.

The tenfold higher platinum concentration in the

fibrin layer may also indicate the migration of this

element through an intact implant envelope. " The CDC

tested the urine of 1,007 randomly selected people

from the general population for platinum and did not

find significant levels of platinum. However their

current analytic methods are capable of only measuring

platinum concentrations as low as 0.04 micrograms

(mcg) per liter in urine. Because the medical

community does not recognize platinum poisoning from

implants, we do not have good research on how the

platinum might be removed but it is thought that NAC

(N-Acetyl-Cysteine) taken with yogurt at night may be

helpful in removing platinum from the body.

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Chemically Assoicated Neurological Disorders