Doctors often incorrectly diagnose fluorosis as “arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia" (and other conditions associated with muscle and joint pain and stiffness.)    

 

The advanced stages of skeletal fluorosis produces extreme, visibly crippling, effects on the skeleton, but the early stages are less obvious and difficult to diagnose by doctors not specifically trained for this purpose.

 

 

Skeletal Fluorosis occurs frequently in India because natural water sources contain fluoride.  Doctors there are well educated to distinguish between fluorosis, arthritis and other disorders.  According to the Fluorosis Diagnosis Global Consultation Centre in India, skeletal fluorosis can be diagnosed as follows:

• Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) and low T3, T4

• Low hemoglobin

• Fluoride in the urine of more than 1mg/L

• X-Ray of forearm shows specific lesions.

For more information, visit the diagnosis page or contact the Fluorosis Diagnosis Global Consultation Centre.

 

 

Why are doctors not aware of fluorosis?

Fluoride manufacturers keep the fluoride deception alive by donating to medical and dental schools.  They also manage to keep legislation in their favor by donating money to government institutions.

 

The toxicity of fluoride has been proven through research over and over.  

 

1. The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has labeled fluoride as hazardous waste.

2. The American Cancer Association said fluoride causes more deaths than any other chemical on earth and the approval of fluoride by the FDA has been described as public murder on a grand scale.

3. The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) in Florida stated that fluoride does not prevent cavities, is not an approved dental material and fluoride proposes unacceptable health risks.

 

In spite of this, the American Dental Association (ADA) and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to promotes fluoride. South Africa blindly follows America without ever questioning. 

 

The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) in Florida published these findings in 2003 after 18years of research:

 

It is the position of this Academy that from a toxicological point of view fluoride proposes unacceptable health risks. IAOMT has determined that fluoride is not an approved dental material and should not be taken internally. Adverse health effects demonstrated were: fluorosis; cancers; genetic damage; bone pathology; trans placental and brain transport; histological brain, artery, and kidney damage; and neurological impairment.

 

After this statement was released, European governments took a stand against fluoride, but not in America, where to this day, the American Dental Association (ADA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promotes fluoride.

 

Another reason why medical doctors do not diagnose fluorosis, is because the standards prescribed by Western Medical Science are incorrect.

 

Research has found that  fluoride is more toxic than lead, but slightly less toxic than arsenic. 

 

If this is true, one would expect that the 'safe levels' for fluoride (as used by medical science), should be somewhere between lead (0 to 4 micrograms/L) and arsenic(0 to 0.3.5 micrograms/L)  But the safe limit for fluoride as prescribed by Western Medicine 0 to 10 milligrams/L.  The safe values used in India is 0 to 1 milligrams/L (according to Prof. Dr. AK Susheela of the Fluorosis Diagnosis Global Consulting centre)  This value is still significantly higher than the values for lead and arsenic. (See the second picture with green diagrams on right side).

 

Skeletal Fluorosis (fluoride poisoning that looks like arthritis) can be caused by regular ingestion of very small amounts of fluoride, much smaller than the medically recognized norm.  However, the exact doses that cause fluoride-arthritis remain poorly understood. No systematic research has been conducted by any US medical authority (who prescribe the medical norms) to determine how low the arthritic dose might be, and how this dose varies based on an individual’s age, nutritional status, health status, and exposure to repetitive stress.

 

The value of 10milligrams as prescribed by Western Medicine, has not only been scientifically discredited, it is also far higher  higher than the vast majority of individuals ever receive.  Arguments against it has been widely published:

 

 

Individual susceptibility to fluorosis varies greatly across the population

The claim that skeletal fluorosis cannot occur if an individual consumes less than 10 mg/day of fluoride obscures the individual variability, and complexity, of fluorosis. As with any other toxic substance, individual susceptibility to fluoride varies considerably across the population. Research has documented, for example, that:

• some individuals can develop skeletal fluorosis despite having “safe” levels of fluoride in their bones and without any known excessive exposure to fluoride; 

• individuals receiving the same dose of fluoride can exhibit dramatically different bone responses; 

• individuals with pre-skeletal fluorosis can suffer excruciating pain, while individuals with advanced fluorosis can remain symptom-free;

• although U.S. health authorities claim that fluorosis only develops after 10 or more years of exposure, children can develop the disease in as little as 6 months,  and some adults have developed it in as little as 2 to 7 years.

 

 

The U.S. Public Health Service’s diagnostic guide for skeletal fluorosis incorrect

The U.S. Public Health Service’s diagnostic guide for skeletal fluorosis is incorrect on two key premises.

• First, it states that the pre-clinical phase of fluorosis is “asymptomatic.” Numerous published studies show that this is not so.

• Second, it relies on the fiction that there are clear, firm bone fluoride levels that do, or do not, cause the disease. Again, however, studies have repeatedly found that people with skeletal fluorosis can have levels far below this range. Indeed, individuals with crippling skeletal fluorosis in the United States have been found to have as little as 1,900 ppm in their bone — a concentration that, according to the PHS, should not even produce the earliest symptoms of the disease.

 

 

Skeletal fluorosis in humans: a review of recent progress in the understanding of the disease.

Fluorosis lesions are evident when small doses of fluoride are ingested over a long period of time during which calcium intakes are apparently normal.