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Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury. [3] Symptoms depend upon the type, dose, method, and duration of exposure. [3] [4] They may include muscle weakness, poor coordination, numbness in the hands and feet, skin rashes, anxiety, memory problems, trouble speaking, trouble hearing, or trouble seeing. [1]
Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech.
The first description of symptoms of mercury poisoning among hatters appears to have been made in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1829. [14] In the United States, a thorough occupational description of mercury poisoning among New Jersey hatters was published locally by Addison Freeman in 1860.
Eating too much seafood that’s high in mercury over long periods of time can lead to mercury poisoning. Symptoms include skin numbness, shakes and tremors, double vision, memory problems and ...
The plaintiffs, in their 50s and 80s, were living in Kumamoto and nearby Kagoshima at the time of the mercury poisoning and later moved to Osaka and elsewhere in western Japan.
The symptoms of poisoning may be delayed by months, resulting in cases in which a diagnosis is ultimately discovered, but only at a point in which it is too late or almost too late for an effective treatment regimen to be successful. [13] Methylmercury poisoning is also known as Minamata disease.
HGTV star Christina Hall announced has been diagnosed with mercury and lead poisoning. A doctor breaks down the diagnosis and how she could have gotten it.
The more distinctive neurological symptoms of mercury poisoning, including loss of balance and slurred speech, appeared in January 1997, five months after the accident. [8] At this point, tests proved that she had severe mercury poisoning .