Mercury

external

• Synonyms

  • Hg

• Effects

  • Cerebellar ataxia
  • Ganglionopathy
  • Acrodynia
  • Palm and sole desquamation
  • Increased sympathetic tone
  • Facial erythema
  • Non-scarring alopecia
  • Restlessness
  • Mental slowing
  • Hunter-Russell syndrome
  • Minamata disease
  • Cerebral atrophy
  • Toxic neuropathy
  • Drug nephrotoxicity
  • Acquired Fanconi syndrome

• Parents

  • Heavy metal

• Description

  • "Probably alters membrate ion permeability
  • blood-brain barrier
  • and toxic to striate cortex
  • cerebellar granule cells and spinal ganglia. Demyelination."