Thursday, October 11, 2012

Fluoride in toothpaste

I was brushing my daughter's teeth with a strawberry flavoured toothpaste, especially for children, when I decided to take a look at the ingredients. The box says it contains Sodium Fluoride "which is in our (Canadian Dental Associtation) opinion, am effective decay preventive agent..." But when I looked at the bottom it also says that prevent swallowing. Well...I'm using this toothpaste for a kid in her mouth, so it obviously could happen. Why is it a problem if the kid swallows the toothpaste by accident? And why every dentist and dental association likes fluoride that much? And what's the reality?

What is Flurodie?

There are many types of fluoride, like Calcium Fluoride, Stannous Fluoride, Sodium Silica Fluoride and many more. But now I will talk about Sodium Fluoride.

This type of Fluoride is used in toothpastes, mouthwashes dental preparations and nutritional supplements. But it is also used as an insecticide and pesticide, they use it as a rat poison as well. According to Yngve Ericsson and Britta Forsman "in children and youth minimal ingestion of sodium fluoride causes salivation, nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, and diarrhea." A 1990 study stated that fluoride has been shown to NOT reduce cavities. I was always wonder about that anyways: How is that possible that almost everyone has cavity? And many of us brush teeth at least twice a day. If Fluoride is that good than we shouldn't have a problem, but we have.

Sodium Fluroide

Sodium Fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear, aluminium, and phosphate fertilizer industries. The sodium fluoride obtained from industrial waste and added to water supplies is also already contaminated with lead, aluminum, and cadmium. It damages the liver and kidneys, weakens the immune system, possibly leading to cancer, creates symptoms that mimic fibromyalgia, and performs as a Trojan Horse to carry aluminum across the blood brain barrier. The latter is recognized as a source of the notorious “dumbing down” with lower IQ’s and Alzheimer’s effects of fluoride. Source: here.

The below countries have made a stand against fluoridation of their drinking water:

  • Germany
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Luxembourg
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Finland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Austria

The story behind the fluoride in nutshell:

At the end of the 30s Dr. H. Trendley Dean claimed that 1 ppm (1 mg / l) amount of fluoride in the water causes tooth fluorosis. In 1939, biochemist Gerald Cox co-worker of the Mellon Institute, said that if fluoride is harmful in big amount, it's probably useful in small amount.

Another powerful propagator was Oscar Ewing lawyer and high-ranking politicians. Under his guidance, within three years, nearly 100 cities began pumping fluoride in the drinking water.

Fluoride in the the water causes more than 10 000 cancer deaths in the US.

The New York Times; January 20, 1979 states that:

"A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 to the parents of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of fluoride at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale Hospital while his mother pleaded for help, and he lapsed into a coma and died[....]He was examined by Dr. George, who found no dental caries and turned the boy over to Miss Cohen, a dental hygienist, for routine teeth-cleaning. After cleaning William’s teeth, witnesses explained, Miss Cohen, using a swab, spread a stannous fluoride jell over the boy’s teeth as a decay-preventive. Miss Cohen was engrossed in conversation while working on William and, after handing him a cup of water, failed to instruct him to wash his mouth out and spit out the solution."

So as you can see fluoride is pretty harmful. Try to use toothpaste without fluoride.

Other possible harmful ingredients in toothpaste: Hydrated Silica, Triclosan, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, FD&C color dyes.

Source:

Antal Vali

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