Study Set Content:
Mercury
(toxicity can result from
vapor inhalation, ingestion, injection & skin contact (absorption)
-found in insecticides and is used in cardiac perfusion imaging.
Thallium
Cadmium
Itai-itai Disease
Arsenic
Aldrich mees-lines
Copper
(Cu deficiency in male infants that lacks ATP7A)
Menkes Disease
autosomal recessive disease
Wilson’s disease
Aluminum
Shaver’s disease
Lead
Plumbism
Mercury
Minimata Disease
Minimata Disease (neurologic damage:
visual loss, extremity numbness, hearing loss and ataxia
Iron
Hematochromatosis
Cadmium
mg(LD50)
350-8900 mg
Vomiting
15 mg/L-
Arsenic
100-300 mg as trivalent
compound
Chromium
500 mg
chromic acid
1-2g
potassium dichromate
6-8g
Copper
vomiting
250 mg-
Lithium
20-30 tabs
*completely absorbed
w/in 6-8 hours of
ingestion
Mercury
(toxicity can result from vapor inhalation, ingestion, injection & skin contact (absorption)
1-4 g
