{"id":13232,"date":"2019-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-rare-disorders-skin-lightening-cream-methylmercury-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:00:00","slug":"condition-rare-disorders-skin-lightening-cream-methylmercury-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-rare-disorders-skin-lightening-cream-methylmercury-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"47-Year-Old Woman Needs a Feeding Tube After Getting Mercury Poisoning From Skin-Lightening Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a first for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a woman from Sacramento, California was recently diagnosed with mercury poisoning from using a skin-lightening cream—and now, the health agency is warning others to be wary of using similar products.<\/p>\n
In a recent installment of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>a team of researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) detail the case of a 47-year-old Mexican-American woman who sought medical treatment in July 2019 for involuntary muscle movements and weakness in her upper extremities.<\/p>\n Over the course of two weeks of outpatient follow-up, the woman's condition progressed—eventually leading to hospitalization due to blurry vision<\/a>, speech difficulties, and unsteady gait. Even while hospitalized, the woman's condition continued to worsen, and she developed an agitated delirium, per the CDC's report. <\/p>\n RELATED: How Often Is Too Often to Eat Sushi or Other Raw Fish?<\/strong><\/p>\n Two weeks after being hospitalized, the woman's blood and urine tests detected "abnormally high values of mercury"—2,620 μ<\/i>g\/L, to be exact. (According to the CDC<\/a>, any blood mercury levels over 10 µg\/L are cause for concern).<\/p>\n The cause? According to an investigation by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the woman's skin-lightening cream, which she had bought from Mexico and had been using twice a day for the past seven years, contained 12,000 ppm of mercury—specifically a type of organic mercury called methylmercury.<\/p>\n It’s not uncommon for harmful skin-lightening creams to contain inorganic mercury, the study’s lead author Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH, of the UCSF and California Poison Control System said in a press release<\/a>. But organic mercury is way more toxic, and can cause “profound damage” to a person’s central nervous system that can even get worse after use of the product ceases. <\/p>\n