What are the symptoms of mercury poisoning?

Update Date: 2024-11-09 Source: Network

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With the continuous improvement of living standards, people's bodies seem to have been affected by various factors. Lead poisoning was caused by using pencils when I was young, and various kinds of poisoning were caused by eating various video additives later. We seem to endure the poisoning of various trace elements all the time. Today we are going to talk about what is mercury poisoning. When it comes to mercury poisoning, we first think about the battery when we urinate. In our life, there is a lot of publicity about the harm of mercury in the battery to people, but we can't leave it. It has become an integral part of our life.

What are the symptoms of mercury poisoning?

Mercury is what we call mercury. Generally, liquefied mercury is not harmful to human body. Even if it is touched by people, as long as it is cleaned in time, there is no harm, but if it accidentally flows into the body or the gas produced by mercury, it will threaten our life and health.

Once Mercury enters the organism, it can accumulate in the organism and be easily absorbed by the skin, respiratory tract and digestive tract. Mercury damages the central nervous system and has adverse effects on the mouth, mucous membrane and teeth. Long term exposure to high mercury can lead to brain injury and death.

As we all know, the thermometer we use to measure body temperature is made of mercury. That is what we call liquefied mercury. Once the thermometer is broken and evaporated, it can make a space of 15 square meters, and the mercury content per square meter is as high as 22.2 mg. Within two hours, the respiratory tract and lung tissue will be damaged, and even die of respiratory failure.

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Here, I would like to remind you that if the thermometer is broken accidentally, you should immediately open the window to maintain ventilation, and use a paper towel to suck up the visible mercury, and then throw it out into the open air, and clean the parts that may come into contact with mercury.