Is Mercury Toxicity an Autoimmune Disorder?
By Keith W. Sehnert, MD, Gary Jacobson, DDS ND Kip Sullivan, JD TLfDP, October 1995 Autoimmune Disorders The diagnostic arena now occupied by autoimmune disorders provides us with terms that could best be described as “alphabet soup”. Such problems include RA (rheumatoid arthritis), HT (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis), HAD (human adjuvant disease), ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or more commonly, Lou Gehrig’s disease) and MCTD (mixed connective tissue disease). Should we now add MT (mercury toxicity)? These conditions plus others, such as Crohn’s disease, Raynaud’s disease, systemic candidiasis, diabetes, and even Alzheimer’s disease are now believed by many to be autoimmune disorders. When patients are afflicted with such disorders, they come into their physician’s office with all, or some, of these symptoms: Generalized morning stiffness Skin rashes Dry eyes and mouth Joint pain Immune dysfunction Axillary lymph node swelling Subcutaneous nodules (skin bumps) Neurological symptoms (ring
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