"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

~ Angela Schwindt

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Chew on This

Safe quantities of aluminum:

for a healthy newborn- 4-5 micrograms per kilogram (roughly 2.2 pounds) of body weight in a 24 hour period*
for a 12 pound infant- 25-30 micrograms per kilogram per day*
for a 22 pound infant- 50 micrograms per kilogram per day*
for the average adult- 250 micrograms per kilogram per day*

The FDA passed a law that anything containing indictable or intravenous aluminum must have a warning label printed clearly on the package, and they must contain no more than 25 micrograms per liter. Just to name a couple are IV saline and saline solutions used widely in hospitals. In smaller doses, ingested or injected aluminum is filtered out by the kidney and passed in our urine. When given in higher doses, aluminium is a poison and it accumulates in bones, plasma (a component of your blood), and brain. it can cause progressive dementia, impaired neurological and mental development in children, and death.

Now here's the shocker!

Aluminum is used in vaccinations across the country. Their amounts vary by manufacturer, but these are the median amounts:

HIB (given at birth, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 15 months)- 225 micrograms per shot
Pc (given at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 15 months)- 125 micrograms
DtaP (given at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 18 months, and 5 years)- 170 to 625 micrograms (too much of a broad range to average it out!)
Hepatitis B (given at birth, 1 month and 6 months)- 250 micrograms
Hepatitis A (given at 1 year and 18 months)- 250 micrograms
HPV (given in 3 doses during the 12th year)- 225 micrograms
Pentacel (combination of DTaP, HIB and polio given in place of the individual shots)- 330 micrograms
Pediarix
(combination of DTap, Hep B and Polio)- 850 micrograms

Unbelievable, right? Wait, it gets better...

The FDA does not require the manufacturers to print the warning label on each individual vaccine, nor do they have to comply with the regulations for micrograms per liter. At most appointments when vaccinations are given pediatricians like to do them in groups of 2 or 3 at a time. That means at any given well check-up, an infant/toddler/child can receive up to 1225 micrograms in one fell swoop. Hardly within the safe limit.

When these high amounts are put into the bodies of our children, their kidneys cannot filter it all out, and it begins to build up and eventually accumlulate on their brains.
And we wonder why Austism is on the rise?**


*amounts shown are for healthy babies/toddler/children/adults with fully functioning kidneys. Anyone who has kidney disease or kidneys that do not function at 100% are to refer to the newborn safe range for their own.

**there are no studies proving the link between aluminum toxicity and Autism, but with the two rising equally as much, one can only wonder

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