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Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4556
11/14/05 08:28 AM
11/14/05 08:28 AM
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I've been reading (from Russ's post and other sources) that there is mercury in fluoresent lights. My question is : Do the lights give off mercury into the space they're in or is the danger just in the possibility of them breaking and the mercury escaping? This could be a significant issue as in our household, like many others,we have replaced many regular bulbs with the small fluoresent bulbs to conserve energy. Chelan
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4557
11/14/05 02:18 PM
11/14/05 02:18 PM
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Hi! goood question! Here is one link I found doing Scroogle.com searches on this: http://ruk.ca/discuss/2461Seems that flourescent lighting's mercury is more troublesome if you crack a bulb by mistake. I did read elsewhere that flourescent lighting is bad for animals/plants/and humans-- causes migraines and depression in many people, and the type of spectrum/rays does something to our general health-by lowering the immune system. If i were you, I'd get those flourescent bulbs the heck out of there and invest in some Full spectrum bulbs at least. http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgiI found some 60 watt full spectrum bulbs for about $6.99 a bulb, but they last forever!
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4560
11/15/05 12:50 PM
11/15/05 12:50 PM
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Hi Russ, Thanks for replying to my querry on mercury emissions from fluoresent lights. If you rent the testing meter and do some tests around lights, would you please post your findings. It would be very interesting I'm sure to all of us. Chelan
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4561
11/15/05 01:43 PM
11/15/05 01:43 PM
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Chelan, it is an interesting question. Whenever I go with my daughter to her gymnastics class, I experience double vision which I cannot straighten out. When I leave, everything is fine again. There are fluorescent lights all over her gym. But, I must admit, light in itself, causes problems - sunlight, car lights. But regular lighting in a building does not seem to cause a problem.
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
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11/16/05 05:41 PM
11/16/05 05:41 PM
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Do refular light bulbs have mercury in them? Those are the only ones we have in my house, as far as I am aware. I was concerned that my computer is directly below my light bulb (about a metre between my head right now and the bulb, but I have an uplifting light shade, which may help somewhat , I don't know. I've heard that any artificial light isn't good. I'm trying to get up earlier and bed earlier to make the most of natural light.
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4564
11/16/05 05:43 PM
11/16/05 05:43 PM
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That should read "regular" light bulb, lol.
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
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01/10/06 12:40 PM
01/10/06 12:40 PM
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hi Russ, I would be very interested if you turn up any results on flourescent tubes emitting mercury. It doesnt sound logical and yet I have always noticed since childhood that they made me feel ill. The migraine connection is probably the frequency, flickering not visible in normal conditions ,interfering with brain patterns and causing mini electical storms as in epilepsy. But if they emit mercury ,well that would add another interesting dimension ... Susan Hastings UK
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
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01/12/07 06:21 AM
01/12/07 06:21 AM
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I get seizures from fluorescent lights.... I think it is the flickering more than anything else. I don't have the same problem with the CFL (curly lights) and they don't flicker the same.... but yeah I still have 18 amalgams in a lot of cracked teeth and I am sick as a dog all the time, so the thought of any more mercury is not good in my life.
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
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01/21/07 03:47 PM
01/21/07 03:47 PM
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This is interesting. I've always been unable to read properly under fluorescent lights compared to normal ones. I've been told this is due to my dyslexia. I did some research into fluorescent light sensitivity and photophobia (basically the lights flickers too much and inhibit reading ability), and according to this website ( http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/lightsensitive.htm) mercury poisoning can affect it. It doesn't mention anything about fluorescent lights emitting mercury, just the flicker and the sufferer’s sensitivity to it...
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4573
01/22/07 01:23 PM
01/22/07 01:23 PM
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I am wondering if there is actually mercury in cigarettes (I wouldn't be surprised, there is arsenic), or if smoking with amalgams in your mouth just increases the release of mercury from the amalgams because of the heat generated by the cigarette. I have read that Dr. Boyd Haley says any agitation or increase in temp causes an increase in release of mercury from amalgams. This is why people who chew gum, grind teeth, and drink lots of hot liquids (ie coffee/teas) get more mercury from their amalgams than those who don't.
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4574
01/22/07 01:53 PM
01/22/07 01:53 PM
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Sorry I didn't post the results here yet. We finished our experiments months ago and I haven't had time to post this info. In short, I can tell you that we got 0 readings on mercury from fluorescent lights. We didn't detect any being emitted from them. I do know that they can be irritating, however, because they flash on and off too quickly to see but your eyes can become fatigued under these conditions. I'll eventually post the results of the experiment here: http://herballure.com/Studies/index.html I can only assume mercury sufferers seem to be affected by the flicker more than others - which, to me, suggests it's related to how mercury affects certain parts of the brain. What do you think?
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Re: Mercury in fluoresent lights
#4575
01/22/07 05:01 PM
01/22/07 05:01 PM
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asus, that is true. When I had amalgams(10 years ago), anytime I had a hot drink, I would get some very bizzare symptoms. This is what would happen. I would start to get wheezing in the lungs, I'd suddenly get uncontrollable giggling, silly thoughts, and I'd begin to sweat under the arms. All of this would be set off by hot fluids. I knew something was happening, but at that stage I did not know what on earth it was. I was bemused by the whole thing. in fact, some people asked me if I was on drugs, because I'd go almost loopy with silliness sometimes.
Now I realise it was causing vapors off the amalgams, setting off mercury, which was causing these hyper symptoms, plus the wheezing in the lungs. Reason I know this is, when I had them out, but was excreting mercury via the pores of my skin, anytime I had a hot bath, the vapor from the mercury coming out of my skin woudl set off the identical symptoms that I USED to get with hot drinks. The same wheezing in the lungs, giggling and bizzare silly thoughts.
Mad as a hatter type symptoms basically. Since this cigarette bout? I have had simliar symptoms without even really doing anything. So they must have mercury in them, because I have no amalgams at all anymore for the cigarettes to increase any mercury coming off.
Either that, or the toxins still in me were set off by the differing toxins of the cigarettes. I really don't know, but since the smoking, I've tasted metal and smelt it on myself when I sweat. So certainly they contain metals. I hear they are hghest in cadmium. That might be most of the reason, as I have not been improving and cadmium stays in the system. I have not had success either with using chelating drugs for mercury (normally this would always work), now it doesn't. So I gather it is a metal that is not what those drugs are able to chelate.
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