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Web Date: January 25, 2016
MRI Patients Flush Gadolinium Into San Francisco Bay
News Channels: Analytical SCENE, Environmental SCENE
Keywords: gadolinium, rare earth, MRI, contrast agent, wastewater
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Gadolinium contamination of the San Francisco Bay has increased significantly in the past decade, likely due to the element’s use in magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents, according to a water sample analysis (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04322).
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is commonly used to evaluate medical issues, such as knee injuries or digestive problems. But the imaging requires injection of a contrast agent, which is commonly a gadolinium complex. After the MRI is done, patients excrete the complex in urine and flush it to sewage.
Use of gadolinium contrast agents started in the late 1980s. Vanessa Hatje, now at the Federal University of Bahia, along with Kenneth W. Bruland and A. Russell Flegal at the University of California, Santa Cruz, looked for gadolinium and other rare earth elements in San Francisco Bay water samples collected from 1993 to 2013. In the southern part of the bay, which is surrounded by medical and industrial centers and receives their wastewater, all of the elements showed increases over the time period studied. Gadolinium in particular increased from 23.2 pmol/kg in 1993 to 171.4 pmol/kg in 2013.
Although little is known about rare earth element biogeochemistry and toxicology, the concentrations right now are low enough not to be much of a concern, the researchers note. However, the increases suggest that environmental regulators may need to consider new wastewater policies and treatment technologies.
- Chemical & Engineering News
- ISSN 0009-2347
- Copyright © American Chemical Society
Any drug appearing in the body a full SEVEN years after the last use and in INCREASING amounts means something is wrong somewhere! As patients we can't even trust that our doctors will report this to the FDA, etc.There are people who have tested POSITIVE for this drug who have never directly been administered it for testing...
We are NOT going away, GE & Bayer KNEW of these side effects many years ago and have since paid off settlements as in the Decker case. THey also now have their own little study going on with teh NFL settlement package to study the players who sustain concussions, falsely reporting the concussions are why the players have dementia/ALzheimers etc when ti is the Gadolinium cuasing this TIME COMMENTS
TIME, it's about TIME!! Now with the water crisis in Flint coming to a head, why not make it a Trifecta and report on the Gadolinium in the water, not only in San Francisco but around the entire world, as shown in these reports, then put it all together in a huge glossy mid-year edition that ought to sell millions of copies!
AND GET GE & BAYER TO PAY FOR ITS' CLEANUP BECAUSE THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS PRESENSE THEY KNEW IT WAS CAUSING IRREPARABLE HARM AND THEY KNEW NO ONE WAS FILTERING IT OUT, WE ARE DOOMED!
They knew in 1997 up at Yale what this was doign re: Fibrosis they;d blame it on the patients initial presenting condition when tehy died, how many bodies are buried GE & BAYER?!?!
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Sean
RWMM
http://www.rwmmint.com/blogs/news/84645508-now-thats-a-lot-of-pee-water-err-sea-water
I am just over seven years post last MRI with Gadolinium contrast (Multihance brand, all previous were Magnevist for 8 MRIs w/contrast) AND
It is STILL in me in HIGH amounts, it increased from the first testing to the second, whcih theoretically should NOT happen! Gadolinium is storing into the bones which leech it back into the body (laymen's terms) causing fibrosis, stenosis, scarring within artery walls, bloodflow issues, eventually having a stroke and blindess, so with it STILL Being inside the body, I'd say Death would be when it finally leaves the body to return to the earth!
It can be chelated in some patients but this also stirs up deposited Gadolinium causin more health issues.
If you have had any MRIs I suggest getting tested through Mayo MEdical Labs.com docs order the testing the specimens travel you don't have to, within a week, report is sent back to the drawing hospital (they need to have an account with Mayo in order to bill!) Be forewarned, doctors will try to tell you this always happens to patients so it is no bodg deal or they will claim that you are 'HYPOCHONDRIACAL!"
Cathy
Wheezing, heavy chest, shortness breath, heavy and irritated veins, vibration feeling on my head/brain, loss of IQ, bone pain in my face, jaw, pelvis, feet, hands, neck and back. Feeling of hot metal burning my breast tissue under where my breast crease at abs. Bloated and constipation. Very dry female genitals, joint pain, yellow patch in right eye, aches and pains in my body, loss of appetite, slight depression.