Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Why you should stop using mercury thermometers?


The reason is that the instruments for measuring temperature, it can become a deadly weapon. Why? Why this metal is more harmful to health than we imagined just a quantity that contains a thermometer! Enough to contaminate fish in a lake eight hectares!

Mercury is used in dental implants, fluorescent bulbs and batteries, as well as fish and canned tuna.

However, when you break a glass thermometer and the mercury is not cleaned properly, it spreads through the house as they walked, Sweep or vacuum, forming a latent threat to health.

What effect does the body? In the case of pregnant women, presents a greater danger, since it affects the brain development of the fetus, up to ten times more vulnerable than an adult, causing problems for learning, but also damages the spinal cord, kidneys and liver .

Mercury affects the sense of sight, the ability to feel and move. It is important to get blood tests if it believes it is an excess of this metal, because according to the WHO to die between 50,000 and 70,000 people for this cause.

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