Allergy to Fluoride Toxicity: 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 overlook?
Water fluoridation is provided to most citizens in only a small group of countries, including the US, Australia, and Ireland. Supposedly it is for the control of dental caries in children. Canada once had more than fifty percent of people using fluoridated water, but that 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. It looked at all levels of fluoride from much higher than those used in fluoridation schemes to lower levels. It found that there are clear risks to consumers, particularly vulnerable subsets such as infants 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 examines another type of vulnerable water consumer, those with rapid reactions similar to fluoride allergies.
When fluoridation was first introduced in the US during the 1940s and 1950s, doctors like the president of the American Academy of Allergy, Dr. George Waldbott, wrote a series of case histories of patients who suffered reactions adverse when their water was fluoridated. Fluoride was only shown to cause disease when patients spent time in another fluoride-free city and returned home getting sick each time. Clinical provocation tests were also performed in the operating room to confirm the diagnosis.
Two decades later, exactly the same types of symptoms were discovered in large numbers of patients in the Netherlands when a medical team conducted double-blind trials on them in Amsterdam. Some doctors had patients who lived in the 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, in fact, 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, after starting to use fluoridated water. The symptoms appear as 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 pain, severe headaches, weakness and fatigue, skin rashes, mouth ulcers, worsening of allergic conditions including wheezing, blurred vision, excessive thirst and pain in the joints. Common themes are (a) almost everyone has fatigue that is not relieved even by sleep, and (b) symptoms come on quickly and can only be relieved by completely avoiding all sources of fluoride.
Fluoridation has become so widely accepted in the handful of countries that favor it that patients simply hang 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. Health department propaganda 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 may visit.
The only way to recover if you suffer from these fluoride symptoms is to purchase large amounts of non-fluoridated bottled water or install the expensive type of filter that removes fluoride. Then you must 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 non-fluoridated water for bathing, which becomes almost impossible to achieve in a fluoridated city.
Filters that can remove fluoride include reverse osmosis units, ion exchange resin 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 many errors, leads to discovering the restricted regimen that will allow you to regain your health. Those who make it are eternally 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 damage it is causing.
Good luck; it’s worth continuing this investigation and solution if you’re experiencing these problems and still haven’t figured out why you feel so bad.