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3 years, 1 month ago

What are the symptoms of mercury poisoning?

I ask because I've recently switched to an almost all tuna diet (3oz meals up to twice a day). I've been getting tuna in the vacuum sealed packages, as opposed to fresh. I was just wondering if I should be concerned, or what I should look out for.
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bugsandinsects | 3 years, 1 month ago
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An all tuna diet probably isn't the best thing for you if you are worried about mercury. If your goal is to eat more fish, try to buy smaller fish. Larger fish (like tuna) have more mercury because they eat lots of smaller fish and all of that mercury from the smaller fish accumulates inside of them. This magnifies the level of mercury in larger fish exponentially.

Anyway, eat the tuna while you still can, who knows how long it will be before edible fish are extinct.

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dcanswerer | 3 years, 1 month ago
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I pulled this from the EPA's website:

Elemental mercury effects
Symptoms include these: tremors; emotional changes (e.g., mood swings, irritability, nervousness, excessive shyness); insomnia; neuromuscular changes (such as weakness, muscle atrophy, twitching); headaches; disturbances in sensations; changes in nerve responses; performance deficits on tests of cognitive function. At higher exposures there may be kidney effects, respiratory failure and death.

I also found an article on WebMD about eating fish in general, and specifically regarding mercury. You may take a look at it:
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/tc/avoiding-mercury-in-fish-topic-overview?print=true

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truth7 | 3 years, 1 month ago
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Mental problems including paranoia, but most of the symptoms are long-term. Why are you going all tuna? It's a good idea to mix it up rather than rarify your diet unless you have to avoid a lot of things.

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