News you won't see in controlled mainstream media.

Causes of Subjective Tinnitus...

http://www.jfponline.com/pages.asp?aid=1729&UID=


Ototoxicity

– Medications: aminoglycoside antibiotics (such as gentamicin); valproate; quinine; cisplatin; loop diuretics (such as furosemide)

– Heavy metals such as lead


I have been reading up alot on this subject.. And as I have read web sites that say lead can cause tinnitus..
I believe from information I have read that mercury that people are exposed to alot from many sources can cause and does cause hearing abnormalitys as will as hearing loss..

It's just a fact.. This information has made me take stock of what I eat that may contain mercury and I no longer have glass themometeres in my home..


I've been throu hyperacusis hell. And I don't need anything in my life that can effect my ears beyond what I can control...


And I believe alot of things that can cause ear damage is mankind made.. Like loud machine noise and toxins and chemicals and even flu's that are spread thru unsanatary conditions...

It's all against the natural order of things I believe so my moto is..

Buyer beware. Get informed and decide what the best thing to do for you and your health is in the process of trying to get better..

Just do the best you can... Get informed and take back some control of your life..

Medically Induced Tinnitus And Heavy Metal Posioning Tinnitus....

Also Types of tinnitus noises heard and caused by chart.....

http://www.jeffreywarber.com/hc%20pages/tinnitus.html

http://www.hearnet.com/features/articles/artist_article_tinnitus.shtml

Practically any ear disorder can cause tinnitus including: obstruction of the exterior ear canal; infection of the interior ear, internal ear, tube, the covering of the brain, the mastoid bone; toxcicity from heavy metals, alcohol, carbon monoxide, etc; anemia; hypothyroidism; cardiovascular disease; high blood pressure; hypoglycernia; aspirin; diuretics; antibiotics; hereditary nerve or bone formation; trauma to the head; noise-induced hearing loss; eustachian tube obstruction; neck problems; cranial bone misalignments; Menieres disease; Temporalmandibular Joint dysfunction; calcium deposits, etc

http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/OtotoxicityPartII.htm


Ototoxicity-The Hidden Menace.. Ototoxic Drugs Exposed.. Chemical's and Heavy Metals...

From that site :

I suggest as a first step-think "drugs."

When patients ask me what they can do about their hyperacusis, among the first questions I ask is, "What happened in your life just before the hyperacusis began? Did you start taking new medications or was there a change in the dose of existing medications...

http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/healthgate/11504.html

Toxins:
Heavy metals
Carbon monoxide
Alcohol
Moms Against Mercury... Also In Flu Shots....

http://www.momsagainstmercury.org/

http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/vaccine/mercurylong.htm

sensory dysfunction. Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that can exist as a pure element or in a variety of inorganic and organic forms and can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with autism


Auditory impairment is also common. Two separate studies, for example, both found that 24% of autistic subjects have a hearing deficit (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992). More recently Rosenhall et al (1999) have diagnosed hearing loss ranging from mild to profound, as well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a minority of ASD subjects, and these traits were independent of IQ status. Among the earliest signs of autism noted by mothers were strange reactions to sound and abnormal babble (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992), and many ASD children are tested for deafness before receiving a formal autism diagnosis (Vostanis et al, 1998). "Delayed or prompted response to name" differentiates 9-12 months old toddlers, later diagnosed with autism, from mentally retarded and typical controls (Baranek, 1999). In fact, "bizarre responses" to auditory stimuli are nearly universal in autism and may present as "either a lack of responsiveness or an exaggerated reaction to auditory stimuli" (Roux et al, 1998), possibly due to sound sensitivity (Grandin, 1996). Kanner noted an aversion to certain types of sounds, such as vacuum cleaners (Kanner, 1943). Severe deficits in language comprehension are often present (Filipek et al, 1999). Difficulties in picking out conversational speech from background noise are commonly reported by high functioning ASD individuals (Grandin, 1995; MAAP, 1997-1998).

In regard to language and auditory phenomena..........

Sensory Perception

Sensory impairment is considered by many researchers to be a defining characteristic of autism (Gillberg and Coleman, 1992; Williams, 1996). Baranek (1999) detected sensory-motor problems - touch aversion, poor non-social visual attention, excessive mouthing of objects, and delayed response to name - in 9-12 month old infants later diagnosed with autism, and suggests that these impairments both underlie later social deficits and serve to differentiate ASD from mental retardation and typical controls.


Besides sensitivity to sound, as previously noted, ASD often involves insensitivity to pain, even to a burning stove (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992), while on the other hand there may be an overreaction to stimuli, so that even light to moderate touches are painful. Pinprick tests are usually normal. Children with autism have been described as "stiff to hold," and one of the earliest signs reported by mothers is an aversion to being touched (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992). Abnormal sensation in the extremities and mouth are common. Toe-walking is frequently seen. Oral sensitivity often results in feeding difficulties (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992, p.31). Autistic children frequently have vestibular impairments and difficulty orienting themselves in space (Grandin, 1996; Ornitz, 1987


As in ASD, sensory issues are reported in nearly all cases of mercury toxicity, and serve to demonstrate the similarities between the two conditions....


Iraqi babies exposed to mercury prenatally showed excessive crying, irritability, and exaggerated reaction to stimulation such as sudden noise or when touched (Amin-Zaki et al, 1974 and 1979).

Like ASD, movement disorders have been a feature of virtually all descriptions of mercury poisoning in humans..

Glutamate Toxicity and neuronal cells...

in neurons, cells & liver to detoxify heavy metals. Low levels ... well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a ...
exposed to thimerosal in ear drops,

http://www.the7thfire.com/PycResGlutamateTox.htm

The auditory system is damaged by mercury poisoning in Minamata disease.

The auditory system may have special importance for the brain as a whole. Fisch (1970) pointed out that the auditory system is always active, even during sleep [118] -- this is why we use alarm clocks to wake up!

The auditory system evolved as an alerting mechanism for visual attention, and there is evidence that the inferior (auditory) and superior (visual) colliculi in the midbrain tectum might have special importance for general awareness and consciousness [119, 120].

Hyperacusis
The EideNeurolearning blog reports on a study into Williams Syndrome (also called Williams-Beuren syndrome), a genetic disorder characterised by mental retardation coupled with an unusual facility with language and a love for music. Because of the nature of the syndrome it made a good study on sound sensitivity. Carers of people with Williams Syndrome where asked to complete questionnaires on what and how sounds effected them and these where compared to the answers given by people with Down Syndrom, autism and a normal control group.
Normally sound sensitivity is referred to as Hyperacusis but this term is used to describe various behaviours. The study, 'Aversion, Awareness, and Attraction: Investigating Claims of Hyperacusis in the Williams Syndrome Phenotype' [PDF], found four different sound related behavior.

True Hyperacusis: Lowered hearing thresholds

Odynocusis: Lowered auditory pain threshold

Auditory Allodynia: Aversion or fear of sounds not normally aversive

Auditory Attractions: Attractions to or fascinations with certain sounds
True Hyperacusis was only found in the people with Williams Syndrome and then only in 4.7% of the group. Odynacusis and Auditory Allodynia was found in 70%+ of the Williams Sydnrome group and around 30% in the autistic group compared with 2% of normal control group. Interestingly some of the behaviour exhibited by the people with Williams Syndrome is remarkably similar to obsessive behaviour seen with autism through with sounds rather than the more common tactile obsessions seen in autism: "... one young adult spontaneously said that he loved the sound of vacuum cleaners. His parents reported that he owned 18 vacuum cleaners ...". The negative reactions to some sounds were also reminiscent of autism: "One child in our study covered her ears and cried to her mother that the birds outside were ‘hollering’ at her. One 17-year-old girl reported extreme distress from the sound of a vacuum cleaner in another room, explaining that ‘the sound reverberates in my head.’"
At an approximately 30%+ incident rate, its obvious that sound sensitivity is significant in autism and sheds light on some autistic behaviour. See also The Senses of Autism and Hearing Things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29

From the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries, a process called "carroting" was used in the making of felt hats. Animal skins were rinsed in an orange solution of the mercury compound mercuric nitrate, Hg(NO3)2•2H2O. This process separated the fur from the pelt and matted it together. This solution and the vapors it produced were highly toxic. Its use resulted in widespread cases of mercury poisoning among hatters. Symptoms included tremors, emotional lability, insomnia, dementia and hallucinations. The United States Public Health Service banned the use of mercury in the felt industry in December 1941. The psychological symptoms associated with mercury poisoning may have inspired the simile "mad as a hatter", and thereby the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory

http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/meniere.html

Symptoms
5 symptoms qualify Meniere :
Symptom Brief Explanation
Vertigo Loss of balance. In Meniere often fluctuating between attacks. If it is other vestibular problems often more permanent in its nature.
Bad Hearing Sometimes fluctuating. In the long run worse after each attack
Tinnitus Ringing, hissing or whooshing sound in the ear(s). Comes normally together with bad hearing. If the hearing gets better the tinnitus normally gets lower.
Ear Fullness or Pressure The ear feels "full", sometimes with pain.
Frequent attacks More than one single attack that causes the person to loose balance for minutes or hours. Often combined with vomiting. An Attack without warning that causes a person to be virtually falling to the floor is called drop-attack. Most people feel warnings in the form of fullness or worse hearing etc. before attacks.


Other common symptoms are Distorted hearing, Dizziness, Nausea, Vomiting (sometimes "both ends"), Hard to Focus the eyes on one place only, Hard to concentrate, Weak memory, Nervous, Moody, Tired, Headaches. Some even get Oversensitive for low noise. Some even to the extent that they cannot stand normal everyday noises like running water, heavy rain or many people talking at the same time etc., (=Hyperacusis or recruitment). It is as if everything around you has loudspeakers with amplifiers turned to high or the highest and with a lot of distortion.

Causes..

There is seldom no definite cause of Meniere or Meniere-like symptoms. It can be many things like: Stress, High blood pressure, Cholesterol, Bad diet, Too much Coffee, Bad blood supply to the organs in the ear, Too much to drink, Salt, Sugar, Lack of sleep, Smoking, Alcohol, Virus (perhaps Herpes), Obesity, Noise, Hereditary, Tumor, Previous accident with a blow to the head, Auto immune complications, Amalgam tooth - fillings, hypothyroidism, Lead-poisoning, Candida Albicans, (=Yeast infection), Vaccinations etc.

The Gerson Institue... The Gerson Therapy.. Dr Gerson....

http://www.gerson.org/g_therapy/default.asp

http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/litt.html#MBI

List of Authors and books..

Lists Of Literature..

I've read about Selenium being real good as a binder. I need to read up more on this.. I've bought selenium for myself..
But I have to read up more on the subject before I take it as too much selenium may not be good either.. Need to study more on the subject first...

From that site...

Tandvårdsskadeförbundet, TF,

SWEDEN

Symptoms, Development of the disease, diagnosis and Test methods, Free radicals, metals and the Immune System, Selenium and vitamin treatment, Diet and life-style, chelators, safety precautions for removal of Amalgam, Other toxic dental materials, Priority order for Amalgam removal, General guidelines on replacement material, Composite materials, ceramics, porcelain and plastic inlays, Gold restorations, Materials for crowns and bridges, root canal treatments, dentures, tooth extraction, complications, Realistic expectations of treatment, pregnancy, dental personnel.


Chronic Fatigue Author Annika Jeppsson-Mc Clintock

Suddenly ill, Head in Plaster-cast, About Amalgam, metal, oral galvanism, symptoms, electricity sensitivity, diagnosis, removing dangerous?, root-fillings dangerous?, cost, percentage sick of amalgam, stairway to health, Important to know before treatment, literature references


How To Live Longer And Feel Better.. Author.. Linus Pauling...

Vitamin C is very important for among very many things: Hepatitis, Hemorrhages, High cholesterol, Blood vessels, Cerebrovascular diseases, Vascular diseases, Headache, Mental retardation, Strokes, Cancer pain relief, Cancer, Common cold, Diabetes, Cataracts, Glaucoma, Eyesight, Ear infections, Heart Attacks, Allergies, Immunity System, Infections and inflammations, Asthma, Autism, Alertness, Schizophrenia (with B3), Senility, Stress, Aches and pains, Muscles, Polio, Spasms, ALS, Lou Gehrigs disease, Pain tolerance, AIDS, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Gout, Hernias, Herpes, Strengthen connective tissue, Thyroid function, Arthritic pains, Teeth and bones, Skin, Wound healing, Ulcer, Gum diseases, Teeth, Toothache etc. etc. Just to name a few. God has created at least one cure for every disease and Vitamin C can be an important one of them. God knows best.

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This is interesting about the ringing in the ears part.. I don't drink water out of my faucets only bottled water but I've been reading that distilled is better.. Maybe I should change to distilled.. And I don't buy flouride toothpaste anymore.. I like the salt and soda powdered T.P... And I've got flouride free baby toothpaste for my kids..

My tinnitus has gone way down from my worst and I had bad tinnitus... It could be allso from certain changes in lifestyle.. I figure.. Why not read up and see what certain changes may do in the long run with my tinnitus , hyperacusis.. What may help with getting better..

You don't know till you try .... I think diet was big factor in my heartbeat in the ear tinnitus going away..

But it's so hard to prove what made it go away but I feel that it was certain changes in diet and things I tried...

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Author .... Paul And Patrica Bragg.....

Not really about a conspiracy, but a book about how important it is that water is really really clean. The body cannot use the inorganic minerals that are in water. It can only use organic minerals that cannot be found in water. If we drink distilled water we can avoid clogged blood vessels and therefore very many diseases. Middle-aged people do not have to have blood pressure over what a 20 year old person has. If we drink distilled water we can vacuum clean our blood vessels from all the deposits of inorganic minerals from water. We can if we drink distilled water look forward to a very big chance of a longer life. (God willing). The book describes how inorganic minerals in ordinary tap water can make blood vessels harden in many places of the body including the brain. We can avoid gout, kidney stones, arthritis of the joints, ringing ears, bad eyesight and much more if we drink perfectly clean water.

The book also warns about Fluoride, which is one of the deadliest poisons ever made by so called humans.

Enviromental Impact On Hearing.. Is Anyone Listening ?

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-11/focus2.html

Mercury . Mercury intoxication causes hearing loss in humans and animals. In 1953, a severe neurological disorder was recognized among persons living in the vicinity of Minimata, Japan, where mercury-containing effluent flowing from a chemical manufacturing plant into the local bay contaminated shellfish. Deterioration in hearing and deafness were reported among other neurological symptoms. Findings consistent with Minimata disease have been reported in other instances of accidental mercury intoxication in Japan and Iraq. Early stages of poisoning may result in cochlear lesions, whereas hearing loss in the late stages of intoxication may result from neurological damage


Raelynn Janssen -Neuro-transmitters like glutamate may figure in hearing loss.

Lawrence Fechter, director of the toxicology department of Oklahoma University's College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, says that studies on glutamate excitotoxicity have implications beyond auditory dysfunction. "I'm more and more convinced that what we're doing in the ear is very much like what is occurring in other parts of the nervous system. If you get excessive release of glutamate from presynaptic nerve endings, this can greatly elevate the level of calcium in the cells postsynaptic to it and produce a cascade of injurious effects. This 'extra-overstimulation,' if you will, or excitotoxic action, has been identified as one of the themes in neurotoxicity. People are talking about it in respect to learning, memory, Alzheimer's disease, and to other neurotoxic diseases."

Recently, Janssen demonstrated the blocking of glutamate cochlear neurotoxicity in rats through the use of glutamate receptor antagonists kynurenic acid and MK-801. Fechter is now also experimenting with MK-801. He says trimethyltin, an ototoxic and neurotoxic heavy metal, seems to work through a glutamatergic mechanism. "We've demonstrated we can protect against trimethyltin ototoxicity with MK-801," says Fechter. "We're now trying to develop candidate drugs which may be effective in preventing or reversing ototoxicity. People have been working in piecemeal fashion, identifying one chemical agent after another which is ototoxic. What's just beginning to emerge is some sense of fundamental mechanisms contributing to hearing loss which would allow us to more effectively predict new ototoxic agents and may also give us the wherewithal to protect the inner ear from injury."

Ototoxic Drugs -Carbon Disulfide-Toluene-Noise And Solvents- Arsenic-Trimethltin ect...

Picture Photo of... Natures hearing plugs......

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This site is interesting..

http://www.mercksource.com/



They have an illustrated medical dictionary and virtual body tour... Plus.. Arsenic.. Peripheral Neuropathy .......


---------------------------------------------------------------Here is a good site... http://www.zip.com.au/~rgammal/Are_Dentist_Really_Healthy.html


Selenium... Thats what I've been reading up on.......

Some of the basic supplements you should consider adding to your daily routine are;

Vitamin C 1.5g/day

Multivitamin B complex

Selenium 200-400mcg/day

Chlorella tablets or pills

LM1 or Toxicol tablets

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Foods Rich In Glutamate And Aspartate listed on this site...

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10849

Effects of lead on the auditory system....

Lead... http://www.epa.gov/iaq/lead.html

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6587299


Effects Of Lead Resources Listings......

poisoning is extremely high, symptoms of lead poisoning are often ... to the auditory system, and whether lead causes hearing loss or ... lead exposure. Lead Posioning -
Lead Poisoning News

http://www.officehomebusiness.com/home/Effects-Of-Lead.html

Health impacts of lead poisioning.. Pheripheral nervous system imparment.. Auditory Processing Altered.. Hearing Loss..

http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst7.html

http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic386.htm

Heavy metals, such as lead and mercury, cause damage to the nervous system, which manifests differently in children and adults. Other toxins, both endogenous and exogenous, usually affect the nervous system with no age dependence.


The toxic affects of heavy metals on the CNS are well known. Several metals have toxic effects on the neurons and neurobehavior. Toxicity can be expressed either as developmental effects or as an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases in old age. The major metals causing neurobehavioral effects after developmental exposure are lead and methyl mercury.


Lead in food and food containers... Exposure To Lead In Home Remedies.....


Hearing Problem System... Lead posioning and a complete list of listing symptoms .. ear symptoms...


http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/ear_symptoms.htm


Symptom... Sensitive Hearing......

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/sensitive_hearing.htm

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20040101/120.html


TABLE 2
Medications and Substances that Can Cause Tinnitus

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Analgesics
Aspirin
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Antibiotics
Aminoglycosides
Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin)
Erythromycin
Tetracycline
Vancomycin (Vancocin)
Chemotherapeutics
Bleomycin (Blenoxane)
Cisplatin (Platinol)
Mechlorethamine (Mustargen)
Methotrexate (Rheumatrex)
Vincristine (Oncovin)
Loop diuretics
Bumetanide (Bumex)
Ethacrynic acid (Edecrin)
Furosemide (Lasix)
Others
Chloroquine (Aralen)
Heavy metals: mercury, lead
Heterocyclic antidepressants
Quinine
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http://www.healthy-networks.com/youngagain/tinnitus-heavy-metal-poisoning.html

Tinnitus - Medicinal Drugs, Heavy Metal Poisoning

Tinnitus is also often caused or triggered by a wide variety of medicinal drugs such as anxiety and depression drugs, anti-malarial medication, blood-pressure controlling medicines, toxins ingested into the body, and heavy metal poisoning. Lipoic acid has also been used for decades to protect the liver and to detoxify the body of heavy metal pollutants, such as excessive iron and copper and toxic metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury.

Auditory Processing Disorder..


http://www.answers.com/topic/auditory-processing-disorder?hl=auditory&hl=processing

Causes...

While there is no one cause, the disorder will occur in various locations along the path followed by acoustic signals as they are received, transition into neural signals and then ultimately pass through neural networks from the ear to the brain for additional analysis (before the ultimate recognition or comprehension and response). In many children, the development of important auditory centers within the brain is linked directly to maturational delays which result in this disorder. In others, variations in brain development can lead to benign differences and create the deficits. For many this is a genetic disorder, which is inherited and runs in families. Sometimes, the disorder may relate to neurological problems caused by tumors, trauma, surgical mishaps, disease, viral infections, oxygen defficiency, lead poisoning, auditory deprivation, or anything along these lines

CDC.....

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/CaseManagement/caseManage_chap3.htm

By interrupting the process of lead poisoning through early ...
postural sway, auditory evoked potentials, nerve conduction ...
Lead exposure and hearing effects in children ...

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/interven/messages/9793?xm=1&m=e

Exposure to high levels of lead can cause decreased intelligence,
> impaired
> nervous system development, stunted growth, hearing abnormalities and
> learning disabilities

http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/sareport/Week-of-Mon-20050117/000355.html

auditory distortions' and hyperacusis, which its proponents believe ...
shows 'hypersensitive hearing' or has 'uneven hearing',
The client ... impairments ultimately will lead to a richer

http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/0405-conf-emumper.htm

You have heard a lot about glutathione today. Think of glutathione as a working woman who has many responsibilities and multi-tasks. She keeps her family healthy (proper immune function), cleans up after her kids (detoxification) and still makes time to exercise her gluteal muscles (a mnemonic to help you remember GLUTathione).

Folic acid was named for the Latin word for leaf, and looks leafy on a microscopic level. It's excellent for repairing DNA injured by oxidative stress, it helps you hang on to your electrons, and it's used in growth, regeneration, and repair.

Lots of different factors contribute to oxidative stress—radiation, drugs, pollution, poor diet, infection, stress, aging, and injury trauma.
This all leads to the loss of glutathione, and cellular aging, disease, and death.
Those of us who do this work spend a lot of our day treating oxidative stress.

Flouride Posioning.. Toxcity... Symptoms/ Associations.. Inner ear- hearing loss- autism......... http://www.bruha.com/pfpc/html/symptoms.html

Heavy Metals.... http://www.mercola.com/2003/dec/27/toxic_metals.htm

http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1660

Toxic Minerals and Heavy Metals

© Elson M. Haas M.D. (Excerpted from Staying Healthy With Nutrition)

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This is not a discussion of loud, electronic rock 'n' roll music, but one of impact to all people living in this day and age who are being exposed to heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and cadmium. Though not normally found in or used by the human species, they are becoming more widely present in our environment, leading to serious concerns. There are possibly more problems from these metals, which interfere with normal bodily function, than have been considered in most medical circles. Reviewing all of our vitamins and minerals has shown us that most every substance that is useful can be a toxin or poison, as well. The metals discussed in this section are known primarily-almost exclusively-for their potential toxicity in the body, though commerically they may have great advantages.

Your Complete Guide to Mercury Detoxification... How to safely remove mercury from your teeth and body....

http://www.mercuryfreenow.com/

http://www.mercuryfreenow.com/archives.html

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic237.htm

The percentage of absorbed lead is increased with deficiencies of iron, calcium, and zinc.
http://www.extremehealthusa.com/source.html

Chronic inhalation of inorganic mercury compounds may result in a reduction of sensory and motor nerve function depression visual and/or auditory hallucinations muscular tremors sleep disorders

Mercury on the brain.. Heavy Metal Blues...

Grandjean reports that mercury seems to slow the brain's response to sound. Somewhere along the transmission line—from ear to auditory nerve to brain—the signal is delayed

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050444.html

B-12 and Mercury...

http://www.ever.ch/b12hg.htm

Leah wrote...

If your able to get the book "detox or die" by Sherry A. Rogers, it's very good and easy to read. I'll get back to you later about Dr. Kerr's number, but she teaches her patients to take care of themselves, and usually see's those who have complications from environmental causes, she can't do anything for you but she does listen and will write letters to the gov't for whatever you need, but don't phone up and ask if they know about hyperacusis because they won't say they do!, it is related to mercury poisoning, but also over 40 drugs actually cause hyperacusis too and all doctor's do know that!

Lynnmn wrote...

And I agree with you totally..
Mercury is terrible for the ears and lead as well. When I read up about lead it just got me all worked up again..

Theses heavy metals are no good to breath or ingest.. You are so totally right on this.
And I just read an articule in the paper about lead recently. And it wasen't good at all..

People should know what theses metals can do...... Lots of harm.....

And I really liked what you wrote on your flu shot thread..

That got me thinking as well. I had a flu shot not long before I got hyperacusis..

Just another thing to think about on my long list of things I did for myself on the way to getting this disorder..

I found a site of a person diagnoised with mercury and lead poisoning that has tinnitus as a symptom..

And he talked about Setatonin and neurotransmitters..

It's in the Doctors Medical Library....

http://www.medical-library.net/phorum/framer.html?/phorum/read.php

Theres a whole list of archive questions on Dr Kennedys site above..

Wow.. It's still found in some over the counter medication in 2005..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

And there is also the story of how it use to be in childrens products which remind me of..

The pink disease Babies... Who have sound sensitivity problems in a high percentage of them as adults..

I think it was Leah that talked about the thyroid on the board..

I found.. Mercury Effects The Thyroid..

http://www.ithyroid.com/mercury.htm

A BAEP test.... Interesting.. Toxins ... Various Diseases Effecting The Auditory Nerve And Central auditory Pathways....

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=6551

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All participants were given a standardized questionnaire regarding alcohol use, blood tests, and a hearing examination. Recordings and evaluation of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were used to measure brain damage in the subjects.

Deviations from standard BAEP latencies and amplitudes generally reflect various diseases affecting the auditory nerve and central auditory pathways. 'BAEPs are diffuse currents circulating in the brain,' explained Smith.

'When an acoustic stimulus on the brain is presented, a particular current response is activated. This response can be detected by electrodes and displayed as a kind of time-dependent voltage. Diseases like cerebellar angle tumours or multiple sclerosis cause defects in the transmission of brain currents, affecting the amplitude and/or latency of the current response, which can in turn be detected by means of BAEP.'

The results indicate that cumulative life-long alcohol consumption affects BAEP latencies, which reflect damage to central auditory pathways, which means hearing loss...

This just came in..
I have been researching on heavy metals and ear disease and abnormality sound sensitivites hearing loss deafness ect...

Because it is proven that heavy metals can cause theses problems..

Cause problems in the brain.. The Auditory System..

And I hit on this research because of my problems with my ears and what I am faceing
at home with my autistic children which opened up a whole new world of research for me..
Just by being here.... And learning from others...

My hyperacusis.. Their autism and hypo and hyper hearing problems they have had..
And then I stumbled on this... And I now what tests have found in their blood as well...
The results are in... Now I'm a believer....

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19025535.400&feedId=online-news_rss20

Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

URINE samples from hundreds of French children have yielded evidence for a link between autism and exposure to heavy metals. If validated, the findings might mean some cases of autism could be treated with drugs that purge the body of heavy metals.

Samples from children with autism contained abnormally high levels of a family of proteins called porphyrins, which are precursors in the production of haem, the oxygen-carrying component in haemoglobin. Heavy metals block haem production, causing porphyrins to accumulate in urine. Concentrations of one molecule, coproporphyrin, were 2.6 times as high in urine from children with autism as in controls.

Autism is thought to have a number of unknown genetic and environmental causes. Richard Lathe of Pieta Research in Edinburgh, UK, says he has found one of these factors. "It's highly likely that heavy metals are responsible for childhood autistic disorder in a majority of cases," he claims. The study will appear in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.

Lathe says these porphyrin metabolites bind to receptors in the brain and have been linked with epilepsy and autism.

The researchers restored porphyrin concentrations to normal in 12 children by treating them with "chelation" drugs that mop up heavy metals and are then excreted. It is not yet known whether the children's symptoms have eased, but Lathe cites anecdotal reports suggesting the drugs might do some good.
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The study is available online at: http://filariane.org/anglais/DOC/MSFINAL.pdf

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New Speculations on the Causes of Sound Sensitivity..

Another possible cause for Sound Sensitivity is Mercury Poisoning..

Research on Mercury Toxicity has clearly show that it can cause

Sound Sensitivity.......

http://www.autismwebsite.com/saitwebsite/cause2.html

Sound Sensitivity , Mild to Profound Hearing loss...

I found this on mercola.com

But I've read up on this allready elsewhere...

Glutamate Toxicity and neuronal cells...
in neurons, cells & liver to detoxify heavy metals.
Low levels ... well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a ...
exposed to thimerosal in ear drops,

http://www.the7thfire.com/PycResGlutamateTox.htm

The auditory system is damaged by mercury poisoning in Minamata disease.

The auditory system may have special importance for the brain as a whole. Fisch (1970) pointed out that the auditory system is always active, even during sleep [118] -- this is why we use alarm clocks to wake up!

The auditory system evolved as an alerting mechanism for visual attention, and there is evidence that the inferior (auditory) and superior (visual) colliculi in the midbrain tectum might have special importance for general awareness and consciousness [119, 120].

I've been reading sites.. Researching.. And it's noticable that more people seem to have more illness and rare disorders and sickness's more then ever before..

More virus's to contend with....

The assault on the body, the auditory system, the sensory system, the immune system, the brain and this most surely has to be effecting our health..
Our lives.. Our planet..

It's just totally amazing what one can find out there by reading and researching....
Everything is much louder theses days..

The air and water is more toxic theses days.

It's just so hard to try to stay healthy..
but it does help to keep informed on what one can to to try to protect their ears and ear health..
Their body health because all things do work as a unit in trying to heal..

And the body has a natural inclination for wanting to do that...

I was reading an articule in Time Magazine.. I'm a big reader of Time and they had May 15 2006 called.. New Insights Into The Hidden World Of Autism...


It says like many people with Autism, Hannah is so acutely sensitive to sound that she'll catch every word of a conversation occuring elsewhere in the house, which may account for much of her knowledge.

She is allso hypersensitive to visual output..

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This disorder effects the auditory system in some way, the brain, the sense's..

Also written .. The Curious Incident.. Dr Thomas Insel , Director Of The National Institute Of Mental Health ( NIMH ), which funds most of the autism research , remembers a time when the disorder was rarely diagnoised . "


When my brother trained at Childrens Hospital at Harvard in the 1970's , they admitted a child with autism, and the head of the hospital brought all the residents through to see, " says Insel.

" He said, You've got to see this case, you'll never see it again......

Also at the Center for Children's Enviromental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis, toxicologist Issac Pessah is studying hair , blood , urine and tissue samples from 700 familys with autism.

He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides , opioids and other toxicants.

In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even even the low levels of mercury used in vacines perserved in thimersol,
long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularites in the immune- system cells- at least
in the test tube...

Oh and I just want to say I have the results of that study that was published that shows what happens..
Explain's what they saw in detail....

But from the enviromental side..

There probably no one trigger that causeing autism from the enviromental side, " says Pessah, " and there is no one gene thats causeing it "..

Yes.. I've been reading about that enviromental triggers and then I think of that town in
Texas what a high rate of autism..
I think it was by a coal power plant..
I can't remember the exact details but I found it highly interesting reading...

And The Body Burden Series.. Is fascanating reading as well...

http://www.bodyburden.org/

All this does have an effect on our auditory health..
Just how much so besides what they do know..
More research needs to be done on this...
For sure....

To add to the thread above...

Whats In You ??

We don't know the effect it has on our health but scientists do have
suspicions...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bodyburden/ci_2600879

http://www.chemicalbodyburden.org/

Dr Greene...

Damage the brain or nervous system, that weakens the immune system..

http://www.drgreene.com/21_1439.html

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.. Hyperacusis Is Common in theses Infants......

http://www.kctv.com/global/story.asp?s=1230132

What an intensive site this is on Hyperacusis and Tinnitus..

The even talk about a study of tinnitus and fillings in the teeth..

Just alot of info...

http://www.free-soft.org/mirrors/www.opensource.org/raves/health/tinnitus.FAQ

Auditory Problems...

Hyperacusis or stressed by particular sound people eating,
ect.... Quieter Sounds...

Overall hypersensitivity to sound which is often associated
with a lack of certain minerals and can incresse in stressfull
situations...

Inability to habituate ( Cut Out ) .... Also Loudness Discomfort.

http://www.autismtoday.com/articles/Sensory_Disorder.htm