Does aluminum do harm to people?
Over the years, aluminum has been considered non-toxic elements. Aluminum cooking utensils, aluminum-containing leavening agents, baking powder, water purification agent used has not found a direct toxicity of aluminum; aluminum-containing large doses of oral medication and no significant toxicity.
People aluminum elements visible long-term intake will eventually endanger human health. Once the excess intake of: dementia, forgetfulness, osteoporosis and other diseases follow. Because aluminum is a non-essential trace elements in the human body, into the body of aluminum with almost faeces, only a small portion will be retained in the gut and brain tissue, if long-term excessive ingestion, accumulation in the body, will lead to a health crisis .
When the content of aluminum in the human body for more than 5 to 10 times the normal time, can inhibit the gastrointestinal absorption of phosphorus, serum inorganic phosphorus levels decline, causing softening of the bones, joint pain. The aluminum chloride, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum alkyl and salts and other drugs in the short term will be able to engender side effects.
Data reported: aluminum could result in memory loss. Australia, a private research group, said: extensive use of aluminum salts to purify water may lead to brain damage, serious memory loss, which is unique to Alzheimer's disease symptoms. The researchers showed that the mice experiments, mixed in the drinking water of trace aluminum into the brains of mice and gradually accumulate there, the aluminum salt treated water to give them a drink by the aluminum content of their brain to reach measurable the level of hospital detected, senile dementia brain tissue of patients with an aluminum content of more than 5 to 30 times normal.
But aluminum in 1989 the World Health Organization officially included in the list of food contaminants, in the end what is the harm to the human body aluminum, usually how should reduce aluminum uptake? Study confirmed that brain tissue aluminum element has excessive affinity for aluminum deposition, brain tissue, make people memory loss, mental retardation, slow action, stimulating aging.
