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It made me uncomfortable as well. I actually knew a girl who willfully ingested a troublesome amount of mercury in high school. Her children have visible birth

• lectrick 12y ago
  That doesn't make sense unless she took the mercury while she was pregnant
  • adventured 12y ago
    Lacking a specific understanding of mercury's interaction with the body, can mercury be retained in the body for extremely long periods of time, and can it cause damage to the DNA that would lead to birth defects in children?
    • CapitalistCartr 12y ago
      In Minamata, Japan there was a bad mercury release in the 50s, into the bay, resulting in Minamata disease. "In Minamata, Japan, pregnant women who consumed the contaminated fish manifested mild or no symptoms but gave birth to infants with severe developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and seizures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata,_Kumamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata,_Kumamoto http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/Supplement_3/1023.full http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/Supplement...
      • lectrick 12y ago
        Does this mean that they ingested the mercury WHILE pregnant, or BEFORE they got pregnant? It's not clear from the wording.