June 6, 1997
INDEX
Is
there a connection between mercury from silver fillings in pregnant
women and Sudden Infants Death Syndromes (SIDS)?
Recently it was reported
in media that the rate of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndromes) declined
for the
first time in decades
in Sweden. In reporting on this smoking as a cause for SIDS was discussed,
however
the mothers are not
smoking less now than a couple of years ago, so this does not offer an
explanation.
What has not been discussed
is that mothers since decades have had free dental care and recieved
amalgam/silver fillings
exposing them and their unborn children to mercury released from these
fillings. The
decline in SIDS coincides
with a ban on the use of amalgam/silver fillings for pregnant women in
Sweden.
These facts about
the amalgam use and a shift in death rates for newborn children merits
attention. Maybe
it is a sign of a
civilizational disease for which humanity has a longstanding tradition
of being blind for.
How open eyes can get
closed may be illustrated by the Swedish researcher who together with a
fellow
researcher in 1991
presented two cases of trombocytopenia (lack of blood platelets) with bleeding
disorder in children
after having amalgam/silver fillings placed in primary teeth. The conclusion
was that
tooth status of both
mother and child should be assessed when bleeding disorder was suspected
with
children. The spring
after this presentation the ADA visited Sweden, and a conference was held
and ended
in a concensus statement
that there was nothing pointing to a possible connection between amalgam
fillings
and health. The Canadian
researcher Murray Vimy attended this conference and refused to sign the
statement. This was
easily solved by putting his name to it anyhow. In spite of diplomatic
activities to have
this corrected nothing
has been changed. The Swedish researcher has since been a member of the
expert
committee of the Swedish
Board of Health and Welfare and vigorously maintained the view of no
connection between
mercury from amalgam fillings and health. His turnaround was a joint action
with the
rest of the specialists
in Sweden within occupational medicine who previously in many cases had
another
view.
Together with this
news item online you will find some interesting links to texts online offering
some
perspective.