Is your toothpaste toxic? (Euthymol Original Toothpaste)

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Product:	Euthymol Original Toothpaste
Date:	03/03/02 (416 review reads)
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Advantages: good for your gums, removes stains``, no fluoride

Disadvantages: very strong taste

Earlier this evening I was looking for inspiration for an op. My gaze fell on the toothpaste I had just bought. How many of you have tried Euthymol?
It is bright pink toothpaste with a vicious sting, which I find cleans my teeth like no other. A lot of people don?t like the taste, and it certainly takes some getting used to. My father has used it for as long as I remember as our dentist suggested it when he had gingivitis. He was very keen that we should have good teeth and tried very hard to make us use it. Being obedient children we did, sometimes!

As youngsters we hated it and pleaded with our mother to get Colgate for us! It is hard to describe the taste. It has a vague taste of antiseptic and is very similar to the pink mouthwash you have to use on a visit to the dentist. It is very strong and you could imagine that it would strip paint!! That being said it is a wonderfully effective tooth cleaner.It leaves your mouth feeling really fresh and all tingly.

As an adult I went back to using Euthymol, as it seemed the most effective.I drink far too much tea and I wanted something that would make sure I did not get a build up of tannin stains! I discouraged the children, as I wanted them to use fluoride toothpaste.

Now, I don?t want to be a scaremonger, but this is where things get interesting. I went on the web, as you do, to do some research on Euthymol. I wanted something interesting, perhaps the history of the company, as it is a very old product. I couldn?t find anything of great interest and decided to abandon the review. As I was about to shut down I was re-directed to the fluoride site. What I learned there was very thought provoking. It convinced me to put my entire family on Euthymol, as it is fluoride free. They will just have to brave the taste!

I felt that I must share my findings with you all and encourage you to use this non-fluoride toothpaste.

Did you know that toothpaste could contain damaging a
mounts of fluoride? Fluoride is only a little less toxic than arsenic and more toxic than lead!

I know that the fluoride argument has rumbled around before, and you could take the view that you don?t eat toothpaste so it doesn?t matter. It does, especially for children. Children do sometimes swallow toothpaste. One of mine refused to spit out the children?s strawberry toothpaste and always swallowed it! Also, these days most areas have fluoride in the water and it can also be found in some foods. This makes it easier to overdose!

As a country we are not very good at bringing attention to the potential dangers of fluoride. The US firmly acknowledges that fluoride can be potentially toxic. They even have a poison label on all fluoride toothpastes with a help line to phone in case of swallowing. We have little in the way of controls by comparison. This is partly because toothpaste is classified as a cosmetic!

As fluoride is not classified as a drug the amount does not have to specified on the packaging. I think this is very shabby practice. Most do put some indication, but it is not in a standard form. The British Dental Association would like fluoride levels in toothpaste to be indicated in PPM, or parts per million. Some do, and I would recommend that if you and especially your children continue to use fluoride toothpaste then you choose one with a low numbered PPM. Better still use Euthymol! Some tubes only have a percentage, which is harder to tell.

If you live in an area where there is fluoride in the water supply and use fluoridated dental products, i.e. floss, toothpicks, toothpaste or mouthwash, you could be taking in more fluoride than is medically advisable. The World Health Organisation have warned that a regular ingestion of fluoride at about 2-8mg each day, could lead to a disease called Skeletal Fluorosis. You haven?t heard of it? Neither had I until today, I don?t want it though and will give careful thought to my
own fluoride consumption in the future! It seems it can cripple you.

Fluoride in excess can also cause a dental disorder, seen sometimes in children, called Dental Fluorosis. This disease can cause mottling and pitting of the teeth. Lovely!
It is well documented in water-fluoridated areas.

Fluoride has also been linked to osteoporosis and hip fractures.

Apparently if you start to accumulate fluoride as a baby it can take only 38 years to produce bone damage! Now I feel bad. My children had those little fluoride pills, toothpaste mouthwash?.Now they are all on Euthymol.

In a fluoridated area where the levels are about 4ppm many people will reach mid to high dose accumulation by thirty-eight years old. This is the maximum dose allowed in drinking water.

As a rule of thumb, half of each day?s intake is retained in the body. The kidneys will excrete 50%, if they are healthy, and the rest is absorbed, mainly into the bones and teeth and even some organs!

In this country current fluoride toothpastes exceed the probable toxic dose for children.

Endekay fluorotabs are easily obtained without a prescription or a warning. These contain 2.2mg- a level that can cause fluoride intoxication leading to dental Fluorosis in children (or worse). I feel that there should be tighter regulations on this sort of thing, and plenty of advice available to parents.

If you think that your child has swallowed too much toothpaste make them sick and give them milk and bread. You could also ?phone 0870 600 6266 which is the British help line for this sort of thing.

Of course, you might decide that this is yet another British scare mongering story that will disappear in time. It might be, but there seems a lot of evidence if you know where to look. Faced with that evidence I personally feel that we will manage without the fluoride toothpaste and I will write to campaign for there not to be fluoride in my
drinking water supply. I do think we should have a say in something as potentially serious!

There are other non- fluoride toothpastes other than Euthymol, but this is our personal favourite. It has antiseptic and essential flavour oils. It cleans superbly and is especially good for gums.

So what if the taste isn?t too nice!!

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