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Chemet/Succimer medication antidote for lead poisoning
Mayor Weaver,
I am a RN in Seattle, WA.
Chemet/Succimer is used in the treatment of acute lead poisoning to remove excess lead from the body, especially in small children.
Succimer combines with lead in the blood stream. The combination of lead and succimer is then removed from the body by the kidneys. By removing the excess lead, the medicine lessens damage to various organs and tissues of the body.
The flint Michigan water crisis caused me to continue to take flexeral 3 times a day due to low levels of chloroform and long term affects.
I do not believe that the study takes into effect those of us that had such hi levels of copper and lead in the house I was living in (my daughters house while she was gone to western Michigan university.
This has caused me to have sever mussels to spasm all over my body and is wvery painful to the extent that I have to take flexeral to this day to stop these spasms daily awake or sleeping and never was asked to partisapte in any study but the low doses long term is effecting me since 2016 to this day January 9, 2025.
Is there any possibility of your group testing more homes in Flint before the swith back to Detroit is made? If so I’d like to send in a sample.
I sent this to Mayor Weaver.
Chemet/Succimer medication antidote for lead poisoning
Mayor Weaver,
I am a RN in Seattle, WA.
Chemet/Succimer is used in the treatment of acute lead poisoning to remove excess lead from the body, especially in small children.
Succimer combines with lead in the blood stream. The combination of lead and succimer is then removed from the body by the kidneys. By removing the excess lead, the medicine lessens damage to various organs and tissues of the body.
http://www.drugs.com/pro/chemet.html
http://www.medicinenet.com/succimer-oral/article.htm
Good luck,
Tim Sasaki RN
The flint Michigan water crisis caused me to continue to take flexeral 3 times a day due to low levels of chloroform and long term affects.
I do not believe that the study takes into effect those of us that had such hi levels of copper and lead in the house I was living in (my daughters house while she was gone to western Michigan university.
This has caused me to have sever mussels to spasm all over my body and is wvery painful to the extent that I have to take flexeral to this day to stop these spasms daily awake or sleeping and never was asked to partisapte in any study but the low doses long term is effecting me since 2016 to this day January 9, 2025.