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Originally Posted by annalily
You can't take a toxic dose given to a baby in one day and average it out over a lifetime. The bolus dose given via vaccines is not the same as some theoretical slow, small dose delivered over that child's life.
This would be like saying if you took 4 tylenol a day, every 6 hours, for a month--a "safe" dose of tylenol-- that would be 120 tylenol. So therefore it is "safe" to consume all your 120 tylenol at once, in one day, at one time. |
Mercury reference ranges were constructed based on data from how people are exposed to mercury in real life - environmental, in our diets, occupational exposures, and iatrogenic from additives - all of which occur not as sustained daily doses but rather in larger aliquot exposures as we go about our lives. Ranges which have never been linked to any adverse outcomes are then increased by a magnitude for safety margin, and averaged out as a daily reference dose.
So the data used to compile the reference range was drawn from populations receiving intermittent bolus dosing, since that is the manner in which all of us receive our mercury exposures.
Now, having said all that, I absolutely, unequivocally agree that this type of broad data is NOT appropriately applied to determine safety exposures for neonates, infants or children, all of whom have particular sensitivity to mercury due to ongoing neurological development.
The bottom line is that mercury IS a poison, and it has no place being used as an additive to medications without clear, convincing evidence-based data that it is not harmful - which was NOT present during the time that it was being given to our kids.
: beat me to it. We use µg for "micro" gravity at NASA. "µ" is the greek letter mu and the first letter in the greek word for "small."
