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My dentist put in a silver fillinf when I was about 8. That was 30 years ago. I now realize that it was what you call a mercury filling.
Well, that filling fell out a couple of weeks ago.. Actually, I accidentally swallowed it.
My question is this - how long will it take to move through and evacuate my system?
Also, what damage has it cost me being in my mouth?- Re: I swallowed one rokybird
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My question is this - how long will it take to move through and evacuate my system?
1 or 2 days I think unless it gets stuck in your appendix.
Also, what damage has it cost me being in my mouth?
How healthy are you? Some people are very sensitive to mercury poisoning, others are not. Some people are very good at excreting mercury and others are not.
Roky - Re: I swallowed one Aharleygyrl
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if that was the only filling you had, then you don't have much mercury as someone who had many fillings. still, it wouldn't hurt to do a little oral chelation. if you don't want to buy all the chelators of mercury separately, there are 2 products that say they are the best in the world:
http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/beyondchelation.htm
http://www.oralchelation.com/vibrantlife/comparison.htm
Without some form of external help, our system cannot rid the body of intracellular Mercury (the half-life of Mercury in the nervous system, the period of time it takes for ½ of a Mercury burden to leave your brain cells, is estimated at 20 years). The 20 year rule would apply, or course, only if ongoing exposure is halted, but that’s not the case if you have Mercury amalgam fillings, or if you eat fish contaminated by Mercury, and here we have another problem.
http://www.heartfixer.com/MedicalTopics/Mercury%20&%20DMSA.htm
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MoreThis is a reply to # 930,071Mercury has a half life in the brain of about twenty years . This means than if you are exposed to mercury in one dose on only one occasion , roughly 50% will be out of your brain in twenty years and an addition 50% of what remains will be removed in another twenty years so that in 40 years, if you live that long ,roughly 75%of the mercury will be gone.This does not apply to Amalgam mercury exposure since it is continuous.Nevertheless, because you only had one filling ,your mercury exposure is not very significant and probably is not a cause of any health problems you have.
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it would be quite significant, as i knew someone who swallowed a mercury filling in their sleep and woke up the next day with multiple sclerosis and never walked again, was fine before that. BUT, the filling in this case was 30 years old and fillings 25 yrs old have been tested and had 8% mercury, so not anywhere near as bad as swallowing one that has 50%; plus, if that was her only filling, her body burden is not a lot, depending on her fish, intake. it would be best to chelate.
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This is a reply to # 931,036What is a "shelf life"? Also the issue is how much mercury is in one's brain from 20 years of mercury exposure from a filling ,not how much mercury is absorbed when a filling falls out.If you have ten fillings in for twenty years and then have them all removed ,you still have a significant amount of mercury in your brain twenty years later, in other words forty years from when the fillings were installed.
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it is a slang term. the person had the filling 30 yrs. in 25 yrs, mercury fillings have roughly 8% mercury. so, the mercury over time went into the brain, but in that time, much of it also came out because of the lengthy time involved.
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This is a reply to # 932,177the person says it was one filling.
Without some form of external help, our system cannot rid the body of intracellular Mercury (the half-life of Mercury in the nervous system, the period of time it takes for ½ of a Mercury burden to leave your brain cells, is estimated at 20 years). The 20 year rule would apply, or course, only if ongoing exposure is halted, but that’s not the case if you have Mercury Amalgam fillings, or if you eat fish contaminated by Mercury, and here we have another problem.- Re: I swallowed one chris10
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This is a reply to # 936,151" Half-life" is a scientific term . If the half life of mercury is twenty years, mercury is not gone from your brain in twenty years or forty for that matter.Also , your exposure to mercury is continous rather than occuring on one day .
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This is a reply to # 937,326yeah, wasn't familiar with it, was just told 20 to 30 yrs, but i think some dentists just tell you that as a catch-all phrase. i found this, although some claim it is 25 yrs, not 20:
Without some form of external help, our system cannot rid the body of intracellular Mercury (the half-life of Mercury in the nervous system, the period of time it takes for ½ of a Mercury burden to leave your brain cells, is estimated at 20 years). The 20 year rule would apply, or course, only if ongoing exposure is halted, but that’s not the case if you have Mercury Amalgam fillings, or if you eat fish contaminated by Mercury, and here we have another problem.
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