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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>NatureMama3</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/7901262"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">They aren't distributed the same and ethyl has a much higher penchance for the brain than methyl</div>
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The matter has not yet been investigated thoroughly enough to lend strong support to such a statement -- or, for that matter, for the opposite position, the one taken by Dr. Kennedy in the article you linked. Most of the work on mercury toxicity has dealt with methylmercury, the results extrapolated to ethylmercury. One hypotheses holds that some forms of methylmercury mimic one or more essential amino acids (e.g. methionine), making them <i>more</i> likely to be transported to the brain.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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A "trace" is defined as <.3 mcg. That's three-tenths of a <i>millionth</i> of a gram. You'd probably inhale that much just being in the same <i>room</i> with an unwrapped tuna sandwich.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="99%"><tr><td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset;">I was speaking euphemistically to those on this forum, which often DO have worries, often real, about their children and vaccines.</td>
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Seems like there's hardly enough hours in a day to even make a decent go at worrying about all the <i>very real</i> worries without starting in on what a few <i>nano</i>grams of mercury might do; but I guess that's just me. These days, my eleven-year-old is all about riding his bike no-hands, and he's not very good at it. And my experience tells me that in a few years, I'll be waxing nostalgic about the days when I mostly worried about him doing a face-plant off his bike.<br><br>
When he was a year old, he got a high blood lead score, and I worried about brain damage and all that. Now, I worry about him getting smart enough to consistently outwit me before he's mature enough to handle the freedom that ability will buy him. The docs explained chelation to me, and I wanted to press for it, but they didn't want to do it. Folks around here would probably consider his blood lead level shockingly high, and it certainly was high enough to warrant concern -- but (in the opinion of the doctors) not high enough to warrant such a drastic measure as chelation. Now that I know a little more about the downside, I understand why. With the benefit of knowing he came out ok, it's easy to look back on it as being the right call, but I can remember the fear well enough to understand how appealing the idea of chelation might seem.<br><br>
Go slow.
