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Question:

Can you get aluminum poisoning?

Is there any way aluminum can affect you if its absorbed into your body either by digestion, through an open cut, or even through breathing it in?Most likely inhaling it would surely affect you, but what about the other two?

Answer:

Aluminium can accumulate in the brain possibly causing alzheimers. If you inhaled it it would poison you and damage your lungs, if you got it in your body it would damage your skin, possibly cause an infection and the cut might not heal. Aluminium is a solid so how could you accidently get it in your body unless you have been melting it etc? If it wasn't solid it would burn you if you got it on your skin. You can only inhale vapours not a metal. If you ate it then it would probably damage or clog up your insides otherwise just pass out in a stool, depends how much you ate. People eat from aluminium and touch it every day so it is not dangerous to be in contact with.

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