Symptoms of aluminum poisoning?

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A few days ago, a newspaper reported that people with poor renal function were suffering from neurological symptoms such as language degeneration and slow movement due to excessive drinking of beverages. After investigation, it was found that the aluminum content of commercially available aluminum canned drinks and tea drinks was high. If people with poor renal function drank too much, they might not be able to expel aluminum from the body and lead to poisoning. Besides anemia and osteomalacia, the most common symptoms of aluminum poisoning are memory loss, attention loss, stuttering, language communication difficulties, muscle twitch and other brain and neurological diseases, so it is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease.

Symptoms of aluminum poisoning?

Most of the causes of aluminum poisoning are due to too much aluminum can not be excreted from the body, or because the digestive tract absorption rate of aluminum is too high, or the combination of the above two causes. The severity depends on the highest aluminum concentration and the location of the accumulation. Some organs, such as brain tissue, are more sensitive to aluminum concentration and more vulnerable. In contrast, liver tissue can tolerate high concentration of aluminum without poisoning. The three most common injuries of aluminum poisoning are: 1. Cerebral neuropathy; 2. Anemia; 3. Bone diseases, sometimes occurring alone or at the same time.

There is no doubt that high aluminum concentration is especially easy to cause brain nerve damage, and often shows a variety of different symptoms. For example, language degradation, slow action, memory loss, attention loss, stuttering, epilepsy, mental disorders. Once brain nerve injury occurs, the course of disease will continue to progress. If it is not found and treated in time, it is almost the same result - complete loss of nerve function, and finally death.

Anemia can be said to be a common symptom of uremic patients, due to insufficient production of erythropoietin (EPO). In hematological classification, this type of anemia belongs to normocytic & normochromic anemia, that is, MCV and MCH are mostly in the normal range.

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The kidney is the most important way to eliminate aluminum in the body. Patients with abnormal renal function are easy to cause aluminum accumulation in the body and cause damage, especially those receiving hemodialysis (kidney washing).