Dental Assistant Is Chemically Injured
I've been searching on the net for information on someone anyone who may have the same condition or problems that I have been experiencing for the past 10-15 years when I stumbled on to your site.
I noticed that the first story that was related was from someone who had trouble with mercury from their dental fillings, something I can relate to and understand completely. While I'm unaware if my fillings are a directly related to the problems that I'm dealing with now I am aware of all the other chemicals in a dental office that are and have contributed to my current health problems.
As a dental assistant in the military and in civilian life afterwards I notice various problems that never seem to be explained by the doctors no matter how many tests they did. All the poking and testing never could pinpoint the reasons for my unexplained conditions. It hasn't been until recent years that things have left no doubt in anyone's mind as to why I nearly lost my hands and am now dealing with the same effects on the bottom of my feet. I have huge blisters that cover my feet causing intense pain and itching. It looked the same way on my hands just a few years ago. I had lost so much skin from the constant blistering and peeling that I almost lost my hands to infection. The problem comes from all of the constant exposure to the chemicals used in a dental office. Cold chemical sterilizers, inhalation of vaporized chemicals being vented from a Chemiclave, mercury used in mixing the amalgam use in dental fillings, developing solutions for x-rays and many other things used on a daily basis that go unnoticed. The one that bothers me the most is the constant daily use of a Chemiclave which allowed for the vaporization of the solution each and every time it's used. We used to call the solution that it uses Harvey Food, one of the basic chemicals in this solution is formaldehyde.
Over the years I find that my sensitivity to other chemicals has and is becoming much more extreme, for instance going out to eat can be a real problem. Salad bars or restaurants that serve salads which have been coated with something to keep the lettuce from turning brown has turned me away from eating out in most places. I can actually smell it before I even taste it. The same can be said for my own refrigerators ice maker, I absolutely can not drink anything that has ice in it from the ice-maker. I can also smell this before having to taste it, and it's horrible. I have to use ice from a store which is in a bag if I want to drink something that has ice in it. Along with those two I find there are more and more things that I can detect simply smell now because I am becoming more and more sensitive to these items.