Fluoride Toxicity Allergy: Is Fluoride Making You Sick?
Abdominal pain, weakness and tiredness, severe headaches, joint pain for no reason, is it you or a member of your family? Is there a simple cause and straightforward solution that ninety-five percent of doctors routinely miss?
Water fluoridation is provided to the majority of citizens in only a small group of countries, including the US, Australia, and Ireland. It is supposedly for the control of dental caries in children. Canada once had over fifty percent of people using fluoridated water, but this has now dropped to around thirty-five percent, with numerous cities discontinuing.
The prevailing wisdom in government health agencies and dental associations is that fluoridated water cannot harm your health. But important recent studies and clinical reports dating back 60 years say otherwise.
In 2006, the US National Research Council published the report of its three-year review of the toxicology of fluoride in drinking water. He examined all fluoride levels from much higher than those used in fluoridation schemes down to lower levels. It found that there are clear risks to consumers, particularly vulnerable subsets such as babies using fluoridated tap water, kidney patients, and the large number of people with thyroid disease or iodine deficiency. Many of the health risks detailed were long-term damage from many years of fluoride buildup, but this article looks at another type of vulnerable water user, those with rapid reactions similar to fluoride allergies.
When fluoridation was first introduced in the US during the 1940s and 1950s, physicians such as American Academy of Allergy President Dr. George Waldbott wrote a series of case histories of patients who had reactions adverse when your water is fluoridated. Fluoride was only shown to cause disease when patients spent time in another fluoride-free city and returned home sick each time. Clinical challenge tests were also performed in the operating room to confirm the diagnosis.
Two decades later, the exact same types of symptoms were discovered in a large number of patients in the Netherlands when a medical team conducted double-blind trials on them in Amsterdam. Some doctors had patients who lived in fluoridated and non-fluoridated suburbs and noticed the difference, which led to the establishment of the team to scientifically examine fluoride disease. Fluoridation was abandoned, and actually banned by Parliament, following the results of the trial led by Dr. Hans Moolenburgh.
This subset of people develop unpleasant toxic symptoms within hours, or a day or two, of starting to use fluoridated water. The symptoms appear like an allergy. These people are the two or three percent with extra high sensitivity to the toxic action of fluoride.
The type of illness they develop ranges from stomach cramps and intestinal pains, severe headaches, weakness and fatigue, skin rashes, mouth ulcers, worsening of allergic conditions including wheezing, blurred vision, excessive thirst and pains in the joints. The common themes are (a) almost everyone has fatigue that is not relieved even by sleep, and (b) the symptoms come on quickly and can only be relieved by avoiding all sources of fluoride altogether.
Fluoridation has become so widely accepted in the handful of countries that favor it that patients simply hang themselves out to dry, to care for themselves. Some take years to discover the cause of their suffering. Strangely, medical associations and journals rarely discuss it. The propaganda from health departments claims that fluoride allergy or toxicity does not exist. Victims find out by word of mouth from friends or family, or from one of the more environmentally conscious doctors or naturopaths they can visit.
The only way to recover if you suffer from these fluoride symptoms is to buy large quantities of fluoride-free bottled water or install the expensive type of filter that removes fluoride. Then you should use fluoride-free water for all your drinking water, fill the kettle for hot drinks, and water for cooking. Some of the most sensitive people even need to use fluoride-free water for bathing, which becomes almost impossible to achieve in a fluoridated city.
Filters that can remove fluoride are reverse osmosis units, ion exchange resin-type filters, and distillation. They are all expensive and have their drawbacks. Neither is suitable for whole house filtration to purify bath and shower water.
Finally, the patient who has identified fluoride as the culprit should avoid all bottled and canned products made in a fluoridated city as these products may be made from tap water. Only painful trial and error, usually much error, leads to discovering the restricted regimen that will allow you to regain your health. Those who do are forever grateful and naturally quite unhappy with the political regime that continues to put the offending fluoride in their water, while keeping the public in the dark about the harm it is causing.
Good luck; it’s worth continuing with this investigation and solution if you’re experiencing these issues without yet figuring out why you feel so bad.