Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!mcnc!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Aluminum pans-a health risk? Message-ID: <1840@aecom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 20:37:14 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.1840 Posted: Thu Aug 8 20:37:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:53:07 EDT References: <2015@ukma.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 23 Before we ask whether or not Aluminum itself is a risk, lets consider the question of dosage. The amount of flaking you get from Aluminum pans is miniscule at best, much less than you would get from even a moderate intake of Antacids. As for aluminum in Alzheimer's patients' brains, remember that a lot of these patients have been on Maalox (Aluminum Hydroxide) for years, so it may be all artifact. (At one time, before they found the organism, someone suggested that Nickel causes Legionaire's Disease - because high levels of Nickel had been found in that tissue samples. As it turned out, the microtome used to cut the samples was Nickel-plated steel, and the only thing they had picked up was the shavings.) As for the rate of Alzheimer's rising 40 years after the introduction of Aluminum pans, try substituting '30 years after the widespread introduction' of antibiotics' or '30 years after the introduction of chemotherapy for Tuberculosis'. There are more Alzheimer's patients because there are much more old people. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"