I did not realize that flouride is simply toxic to humans. I had a dental cleaning yesterday & did one of the pharmaceautical grade rinses at the end of the cleaning & when I threw back the shot, part of it went down my throat! Oops! As I was leaving the office I was feeling a bit nauseated & mentioned it to the hygenist & she said to drink some milk & I should feel better. Well, within a few minutes my sinuses completely blocked & I started feeling really weird. I blew my nose & the snot was clear with blood streaks. I started feeling really bad & pulled over to the side of the road & projectile vomited clear liquid & my salivary glands were working overtime! (If I could only make that happen all the time) I called the dentist & they said that slight nausea happens sometimes... I pulled myself together & drove on to work, but didnt make it another 10 minutes before violently projectile vomiting clear green liquid! I felt really awful.

So... I thought I was just having an allergic reaction or something because it reminded me so much of what happened years ago when I tried to take Amofostine during radiation treatment.

Bottom line here is, I went home, ate some food, laid on the couch & started searching the web for info about flouride. I had all the textbook symptoms of ingesting flouride on an empty stomach!!!

Just be careful. I had no idea how toxic flouride is. We think, or at least I assumed it's this benign safe substance that is beneficial to our dental health, however it is being rethought in the worldwide medical/dental community as far as how safe it really is for humans at all. And I am not a conspiracy therist.

Today I feel much better, just a little shaken that I was literally poisoned yesterday. I don't blame my dentist, but they should be much more dilligent about stressing to not swallow any of that rinse!

I wish health & especially happiness to all...

Erik Kleiva


dx 2/11/04 scca bot T3 IU 2B MO poorly differentiated, margins ok, 3/16 modest, jaw split, over half of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - finished chemo & rad treatment 5/20/04