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WARNING: BABIES AT RISK
The latest National Health &
Medical Research Council 1991 Report on Fluorides and Fluoridation gives
serious warnings on the excess fluoride ingestion by babies on "infant
formulas" and "fluoridated toothpaste". (Page 117).
How many years of documented
evidence is needed before the highest medical authority in Australia comes
clean and admits their dilatory past endorsements on the use of fluorides
for children, especially babies!
In 1981 Kay Dupuy in her book
"The Fluoridated Water-Gate Victoria 1981" Page 9 stated:
"However if a powdered
milk formula is used and prepared with fluoridated water, the infant will
consume, from the water alone, well over 1 mg of fluoride daily. This is
more than 4 times (400%) the maximum recommended in 1977 by the Council of
Dental Therapeutics."
The 1982 book "Fluoridation
Poison on Tap" by Glen S.R. Walker page 276 states:
"An average six month old
baby weighing 16 to 20 pounds should consume 2I ounces of milk per pound
body weight per day, making the weight of its daily milk between 40 and 50
ounces.
If a powdered milk
formula is used and prepared with fluoridated water, the infant will
consume, from the water alone, well over 1 milligram of fluoride daily.
This is FOUR TIMES the maximum recommended in 1977, by the U.S. Council of
Dental Therapeutics. One would have expected the pathologist on the
Committee to have alerted the two other non-medically-qualified members
into taking this overdosing seriously. However, in spite of three full
submissions on this subject, it was completely ignored.
Human milk contains very
little fluoride, this being the case, it strongly suggests that infants do
not require and should not have supplements of fluoride.
Development pharmacology
is a new and rapidly expanding sector of pharmacology. It is based on the
fact that cells in the course of rapid growth and differentiation may
develop a specific sensitivity to low concentrations of drugs and toxins,
with permanent disruption of their functions as a result.
The nerve cells of the
brain are to a great extent homogeneous at the time before birth and thus
constantly sensitive to a substance which disrupts this differential
process. Animal experiments have shown that the administration of drugs in
doses which are not harmful to the adult organism may produce specific
permanent disorders in the learning ability and other subtle behavioural
components of the young.
As Professor Carlsson said in
1978:
"One wonders what a
50-fold increase in the exposure of fluoride, such as occurs in infants
bottle-fed with [fluoridated] water-diluted preparations, may mean for the
development of the brain and other organs."
He also said:
"Again, problems
associated with this can be solved only by precise and comprehensive
epidemiological studies in which, for example, breast?fed and bottle?fed
babies are compared in localities with a varying water fluoride content.
No studies of this kind have yet been made." (Professor Carlsson,
Professor of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden).
Again a public statement
(never refuted by NH&MRC, ADA, AMA, or any Health Minister or Health
Department of Australia) was printed in the Geelong Advertiser April 16,
1986.
The following letter by Dr
Philip Sutton (D.D.Sc, (Melbourne) L.D.S., F.R.A.C.D.S., Academic Associate,
University of Melbourne, Formerly Senior Lecturer in Dental Science, Senior
Research Fellow) again gives sound warnings about overdosing of babies with
formula food made up with fluoridated water.
Fluoride risk for
bottle-fed infants
"Sir: During the current
discussion whether the people of Geelong should be compulsorily medicated
with fluorine through their drinking?water, one important consideration
has been ignored.
This is the feeding of
bottle-fed Infants whose formulas are prepared with water from domestic
taps.
In November, 1985, a
committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council stated that:
"During the last decade there has been a reduction in the recommended
dosage of fluoride supplements basically for children aged 0-2 years.
This reduction was made
in an attempt to reduce the prevalence and the severity of the ugly
condition known as dental fluorosis, which is due to the poisoning of the
tooth?forming cells by fluoride.
The NH and MRC said that,
where the water contains little fluoride, infants two weeks to two years
of age should receive a quarter of a milligram of fluoride daily ?only a
quarter of the dose originally suggested.
". . . there has been
a reduction in the recommended dosage of fluoride supplements. . ."
That amount of fluoride
is contained in about a quarter of a litre of fluoridated water.
Therefore, for a
bottle-fed infant to obtain the dose suggested by the NH and MRC experts,
it would be necessary to give it only one-and-a-quarter bottles of milk a
day (a quarter of a litre). This would be gross underfeeding.
The opinion of that NH
and MRC committee ignored the 1981 finding by Ekstrand and his coworkers
that infants did not require fluoride.
This is shown by the fact
that there is a physiological 'barrier' which almost completely prevents
the passage of fluoride from the mother's blood into her breast milk.
Ekstrand said that this
". . suggests that the newborn is actively protected from this halogen"
(fluorine).
In 1979, the main U.S.
food and drug authority ceased classifying fluorine as "essential or
probably essential" in human diet, therefore it is a foreign substance.
Professor Roger Short,
FRS, said in 1985: "To introduce any foreign substance into the baby's
diet at this time must be assumed to be hazardous until it can be proven
otherwise." (One established hazard is the development of dental fluorosis).
He made that statement in
a foreword to the recently-published book: 'Breastfeeding matters' by the
Geelong researcher and author Maureen Minchin.
He referred to the
author's ". . . complete mastery of the world's relevant medical and
scientific literature".
This excellent book is
destined to become the standard textbook on breast feeding.
It is possible that the
Government may be sufficiently foolish politically to impose fluoridation
on the Geelong population against its expressed wishes - demonstrated by
the overwhelming vote against fluoridation at the Geelong and District
Water Board elections last year.
If this occurs, all
Geelong mothers who, despite the advice on Mrs Minchin's book, are forced
to bottle-feed their babies, or are likely to do so In the future, must
insist that arrangements are made to deliver to them regularly, without
charge, adequate quantities of fluoride-free water, so that they will not
have the trauma of knowingly overdosing their babies with this toxic
substance every time the bottle-feed them.
In 1984, Ekstrand,
Hardell and Spack found that bottle-fed infants (where fluoridated water
is used) receive 1 SO times as much fluoride per day as is received
by.their breastfed counterparts.
The adviser on
pharmacology to the Swedish Govemmen4 Professor Arvid Carlsson, expressed
the fear tha4 although not affecting the development of the body, this
massive overdose of fluoride may affect the development of the brain and
lead to learning difficulties.
This problem with
bottle-fed infants was brought to the attention of the minister for
Health, Mr White, but no, comment on it has been received.
(Dr) Philip R.N. Sutton
In a publication by the ADA on
"Fluoridation of Water Supplies" Questions and Answers, page 14, they state
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". . . no ill effect has
ever been shown on the health of bottle-fed babies of the consumption of
feeds made up with fluoridated water."
Who tells the scientific
truth? A recent British study printed in Lancet suggests breast fed babies
have a higher IQ than bottle fed babies.
The study suggests mothers
milk contains an unknown chemical that is necessary for the baby.
However those scientists,
failed to look closely at the bottle-fed mixture. Here we know it
contains a dangerous poisonous fluoride chemical so the fact is that one is
known and the other is a medical mystery!
Accept the obvious and warn
all mothers to care properly for their babies irrespective of the Medical
and Dental experts who push "fluorides for babies".
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