Mercury poisoning
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- Diagnosis Mercury poisoning is suspected from clinical signs and history of exposure to mercury contamination.
- What is the most common source of organic mercury poisoning? In the general population, the main source of mercury poisoning is the ingestion of mercury- contaminated food, usually fish.
- A comparison of traits defining, nearly universal to, or commonly found in autism with those known to arise from mercury poisoning is given in Table I.
- The only way to diagnose mercury poisoning is to be clinically alert to the diagnosis, and to take an occupational history and a fish-consumption history in patients with suggestive symptoms, and in all women of reproductive age.
- Autism is only life long if mercury poisoning is never treated.
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