California woman hospitalized after using a skin cream tainted with mercury is now in a semi-comatose state.
A California woman was hospitalized after using a skin cream that was tainted with mercury and is now in a semi-comatose state.
The cream in question, according to Sacramento health officials, is"used by consumers as a skin lightener and to remove spots and wrinkles." The cream she used was believed to be the cause of her symptoms after the California Department of Public Health laboratory analyzed it and found that it contained methylmercury iodide at 12,000 parts per million. It is illegal to sell skin cream products in the USA with 1 ppm or more of mercury.
Sacramento County Public Health said this is the first reported case of methylmercury poisoning of this type linked to a skin cream in the U.S., though multiple cases of mercury poisoning due to tainted skin-lightening creams purchased through informal networks and originating in Mexico have been described and detailed by the California Department of Public Health.
In terms of reversibility, Wecht said that depends on"how long the damage had been going on and how quickly it was recognized."
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