Question 1

is it safe to take sulfa drugs if i'm allergic to thimerosal?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Thimerosal is a mercury based preservative.  Sulfas are sulfonamide based antibiotics. The two don't cross react, but thimerosal may be used as a preservative in topical solutions of antibiotics, including sulfas. If a person has an allergic reaction to a compound with both ingredients, then the doctor has the task of deciding which or both caused the reaction. But this would be quite unusual.

Question 2

what thimerosal does to the body of children?

Accepted Answer

Almost nothing: Thimerosal has been around for decades keeping multi-dose vaccines safe  until used. The epa randomly assigned a risk level for mercury exposure so as new vaccines were developed, the thimerosal was removed from most vaccines by the spring of 2001(now in inject-able flu).Suggestions that it causes autism have been disproven. A breast fed infant acquires more in bm than was ever present in the vacs.

Question 3

i recently found out i'm allergic to thimerosal. is there a site devoted to knowing what products contain it?

Accepted Answer

Thimerosal: or thiomersal, is a mercury compound used mainly as a preservative in vaccines for its antiseptic and antifungal properties, depends what were the symptoms you experienced when exposed, was it only a local reaction that lasted for a day or two after receiving a vaccine, that's the most common, or a generalized reaction, unlikely from from thimerosal, probably from other vaccine ingredients,

Question 4

is there thimerosal in vaccines?

Accepted Answer

Some vaccines still : Have the organic mercury preservative/antiseptic in them but most have had the medicinal, called mercurochrome when it was used topically on wounds, removed.  There is no evidence that the levels even in the older vaccines had any adverse effects what so ever in any person.

Question 5

should thimerosal be administered in vaccines?

Accepted Answer

If needed: Thimerosol was used in trace amounts in most vaccines until 1992 after the epa issued a random number for lifetime exposure.(based on no science)it has never been shown to have a toxic effect on humans.Today it is present in some flu vaccines. It did it's job of protecting the vaccine for years & removal from vaccines has not  been met with a decline in supposed  health problems.

Question 6

what does thimerosal do to human body?

Accepted Answer

How long thiomersal: Thiomersal does not stay in the body long enough to accmulate like other mercry and there is no build up of mercury level.So the thiomersal in the vaccines is in such small amounts and there is not much accumulation for long term to cause any harm to the children who are vaccinated with vaccines containing thiomersal in small amounts as preservatives.

Question 7

how to know if contact lens solution are better without thimerosal?

Accepted Answer

Use: A peroxide-based cleaning system, like clear care.

Question 8

what kind of vaccines contain thimerosal in them?

Accepted Answer

Few if any: The regularly used infant vaccines have not had thimerosal in them since the last stock expired in 2003. Traces remain in the injectable flu vaccine that comes in multi-dose vials.

Question 9

can systane contain thimerosal/mercury?

Accepted Answer

No: Mercury has not been used as preservative in eye drops for decades.

Question 10

is it true that thimerosal can cause autism?

Accepted Answer

No.: This has been well studied, and there is no credible evidence that thimersol (aka "thiomersal") is a factor in autism --the cdc, am academy of pediatrics, world health organization & all experts agree on this. It's been removed from vaccines in usa for >10years anyway-- & of course, we are still seeing new cases in very young children.  So, the answer is no.

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