Symptoms of Sprite mercury poisoning

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Mercury is a chemical element, commonly known as mercury, is a highly toxic silver white liquid metal, easy to evaporate at room temperature. It will not be biodegraded out of the body, so it can accumulate in the organism. When people eat mercury contaminated food, Mercury will reach the highest concentration in the human body. Mercury poisoning, also known as occupational poisoning, is a kind of chronic poisoning, which belongs to heavy metal poisoning. The Minamata disease incident in Japan in the middle of the 20th century, the mercury poisoning incident in Yanbian at the end of the 20th century and the sprite mercury poisoning incident in 2009 were all quite sensational mercury poisoning incidents at that time.

Symptoms of Sprite mercury poisoning

People inhale, eat or have direct contact with a large number of mercury containing substances (for example, inhale the evaporated gas with high concentration of mercury, eat mercury contaminated food, and apply cosmetics or drugs with excessive mercury content), causing mercury poisoning.

People live or work in the areas polluted by mercury containing waste gas, waste water and waste residue. If we do not take positive and effective measures to solve the pollution, and do not pay attention to the prevention of mercury poisoning to protect ourselves, in the long run, people will take a lot of mercury from the air or diet. The accumulation of mercury in human body to a certain extent will cause mercury poisoning.

People have been engaged in mercury related work for a long time (such as mercury mining, amalgam smelting, vacuum mercury, thermometers, instruments and other mercury containing materials manufacturing), thus inhaling a large amount of mercury evaporated gas or dust containing mercury objects, causing mercury poisoning.

matters needing attention

1: Workers engaged in mercury related work should have regular physical examination, early detection and early treatment. 2: Waste gas, waste water and waste residue containing mercury should be treated in time and discharged after reaching the standard. 3: Use non-toxic or less toxic raw materials instead of mercury, and strictly monitor the mercury content of articles. 4: People who are allergic to mercury even a small amount of mercury can cause poisoning. Therefore, it is necessary to keep away from mercury related production sites and avoid using mercury containing articles.