In article <31F44DD9.5642 at flash.net> Pat Kelley wrote:
>Dave Anderson wrote:
>>>>> I have lived in both areas that floridate water and those that
don't.
>> When I was a child I had two sisters and a brother with the same
>> history. You move into an area and don't floridate - you get
lots of
>> cavities. You go to an area where they do floridate - and you
get few
>> or no cavities.
>>>> Like salt, too much isn't good enough for you, but too little
does at
>> least as much harm.
>> The ground water sources in Deaf Smith county (Texas, since I
just
>noticed that this was cross-posted) has a natural level of
fluorides about
>twice the amount that is usually recommended. I don't see any
signs of
>panic about poisoning there.
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Adverse fluoride information isn't widely publicized usually for
political reasons. Physicians aren't even trained to detect
chronic fluoride overdose or allergy. The following excerpts are
from "Fluoridation the Great Dilemma, " by Waldbott, M.D.
"In 1943, a 22-year-old Texas soldier died with advanced bone
changes and complete destruction of both kidneys. For 19 years he
had been drinking water that contained fluoride naturally at a
concentration ranging from 1.2 - not 12 parts per million as
frequently incorrectly cited - to 5.7 parts per million."
That fluoride can cause kidney damage has also been shown in
connection with fluoride released in the body during methoxyflurane
anesthesia and by Kaushik in endemic fluorosis. Moreover, a study
of the effects of fluoride on the kidneys of monkeys has
demonstrated deleterious renal changes from even such a small
amount as 1 part per million fluoride in the drinking water."
The death of a 64-year-old Texan is another important
fluoride-related case. For 20 years his kidney disease and
constant thirst had caused him to consume excess water - up to 2.5
gallons a day - containing 2.2 - 3.5 ppm fluoride naturally as well
as considerable amounts of tea. At autopsy his bones contained as
much as 6100 ppm fluoride. The high fluoride content of his liver
(61 ppm) undoubtedly contributed to his demise.
"In 1955, in Lubbock, Texas (at that time 4.4 ppm fluoride in water
naturally), after I had presented a paper on skeletal fluorosis
before the local medical society, I was shown the X-rays of a
20-year-old man with advanced skeletal changes typical of
fluorosis, whose illness and death had baffled his physicians. It
was impossible for me to obtain complete clinical data on this
case, but it appears that general cachexia (gradual wasting away)
accounted for a slowly progressing deterioration of his health.
This condition is characteristic of the terminal stages of chronic
skeletal fluorosis," according to Waldbott.
Carol S. Kopf
