LymeNet Flash: "Chelating My Way Out of the Darkness" etc.

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Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :

http://www.mercurylife.com/mercurylife/smorgasbord_of_other_problems/index.html

http://www.mercurylife.com/mercurylife/chelating_out_of_the_darkness

http://www.mercurylife.com/

Posted by massman (Member # 18116) on :

Very good, thanks !

Posted by NanaDubo (Member # 14794) on :

For those of you who did not read the above links
this man follows his long years of illness and

directly correlates each downfall and new set of symptoms with his use of antibiotics.

Here is a quote with research noted.

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"Anyway, back to my story. At some point during my six-month leave, while I was still recovering

from the Stretta procedure, I started a course of tetracycline-family antibiotics, to try to get

the meibomian (oil-producing) glands on my eyelid to start working again, hopefully to ease the

allergic reaction my eyes were experiencing. On retrospective analysis of my records, I see that

my next, and biggest, problem started just about two weeks after starting these antibiotics. This

alone is strangely coincidental, but when the problem doubled in size almost a year later,

within two weeks of starting another course of tetracycline-family antibiotics, I once again

realized that I had likely found a causative factor. The new problem I developed was substantial back, groin, and leg pain.

The link to mercury: in a study of rats given high doses of oral antibiotics, the half-life for

excretion of mercury (i.e., the amount of time required for one-half of the mercury to be excreted from a rat) increased from 10 days to

greater than 100 days. (Rowland IR, Robinson RD, Doherty RA,

"Effects of Diet on Mercury Metabolism and Excretion in Mice Given Methylmercury: Role of Gut Flora," Arch Environ Health, 1984:39(6); 401-408).

In other words, antibiotics reduce the body's ability to excrete mercury, and tetracyclines in

particular have been to shown to increase mercury toxicity (e.g., Prof. Boyd Haley of the

University of Kentucky has found tetracycline increases thimerosal's toxicity to neurons)."
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Worth reading this mans story.