"Cathy Weeks" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:TOOTHPASTE can kill?
"A family-sized tube of fluoridated toothpaste (7 oz.)
contains enough fluoride
to kill a small child of up to 20 pounds
if the entire tube is consumed."
--Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride the Aging Factor, Second Edition,
Health
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Action Press, 1986, p. 16.
http://www.aquasafe.us/20lbinfant.htmAh, a 20-pound kid eating a whole tube of toothpaste has got to be
really, really rare. It's also true, that if a kid drinks ammonia, or
bleach, or turpentine, it'll kill them, too.My daughter (27 pounds) got ahold of the toothpaste, and ate some of
it (a dollop of the amount that they show on a toothbrush in
commercials for toothpaste - in reality too much for most people) . I
called poison control, and they told me that unless she ate a really
huge amount (which she hadn't) that the main concern is that she could
get a stomach ache. They advised us to give her some milk (evidently
the calcium helps prevent the stomach ache).Needless to say, it's now out of her reach. Just like the booze, the
bleach, and the ammonia, all of which are FAR more likely to kill her
than toothpaste is.Advising people to get rid of toothpaste because eating a whole tube
might kill a kid, is a bit like throwing the baby out with the
bathwater.Cathy Weeks
Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01
Cathy,
Good points.
I did not advise anyone to get rid of toothpaste.
The toothpaste fluoride warning is an excellent segueway to discussion of
water fluoridation.
See the QUICK fluoridation education slide show at: www.AquaSafe.us
Todd