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Magnesium Poisoning Test

Magnesium poisoning test, exposure to Magnesium heavy metals or chemicals or compounds that contain Magnesium can cause Magnesium toxicity in the human body. You could be suffering from Magnesium poisoning symptoms, simple home health check to see your Magnesium exposure levels.

Health related problems caused my Magnesium exposure

Magnesium is a mineral found in the fluid that surrounds cells in the human body, magnesium (Mg) is an essential component of more than 300 enzymes that regulate many body functions. Magnesium imbalances occur when the blood contains more or less magnesium than it should. Magnesium deficiency (hypomagnesaemia) or excess (hypomagnesaemia) is rare, but either condition can be serious.

Magnesium poisoning

Magnesium deficiency most commonly occurs in people who have ingested large amounts of magnesium over a long period of time, whose diet does not contain enough magnesium, or who are unable to absorb and excrete the mineral properly.

Secreting too much aldosterone (the hormone that regulates the body's salt-fluid balance), ADH (a hormone that inhibits urine production), or thyroid hormone can cause hypomagnesaemia, the medical term for excessive magnesium in the human body.

Hypomagnesaemia is most common in people whose kidneys cannot excrete the magnesium they intake from food or from magnesium absorbed as medication. Hypomagnesaemia can also occur in people who take magnesium salts, or in healthy people who use large quantities of magnesium-containing antacids, laxatives, or analgesics.

Magnesium poisoning can cause severe diarrhea in young people, and mask the symptoms of other illnesses. Very high overdoses can lead to coma. The risk of complications of magnesium poisoning is greatest for:

• Elderly people with inefficient kidney function
• Patients with kidney problems or intestinal disorders
• People who use antihistamines, muscle relaxants, or narcotics.

Severe dehydration or an overdose of supplements taken to counteract hypomagnesaemia can also cause this condition.

Other factors associated with hypomagnesaemia include:

• Loss of body fluids as a result of stomach suctioning or chronic diarrhea
• Cisplatin (a chemotherapy drug)
• Long-term diuretic therapy
• Hypocalcaemia (abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood)
• Diabetic acidosis (a condition in which the body's tissues have a higher-than-normal acid content)
• Complications of bowel surgery
• Chronic alcoholism
• Malnutrition
• Starvation
• Severe dehydration.

People who have hypomagnesaemia usually experience loss of weight and appetite, bloating, and muscle pain, and they pass stools that have a high fat content. Also, they may be listless, disoriented, confused, and very irritable. Other symptoms of hypomagnesaemia are:

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Muscle weakness
• Tremor
• Irregular heart beat
• Delusions and hallucinations
• Leg and foot cramps
• Muscle twitches
• Changes in blood pressure.

Severe magnesium deficiency can cause seizures, especially in children.

Neonatal hypomagnesaemia can occur in premature babies and in infants who have genetic parathyroid disorders or who have had blood transfusions. This condition also occurs in babies born to magnesium-deficient mothers or to women who have:

• Diabetes mellitus
• Hyperparathyroidism (overactive parathyroid glands)
• Toxemia (a pregnancy-related condition characterized by high blood pressure and fluid retention).

Hypomagnesaemia

People who have hypomagnesaemia may feel flushed and drowsy, perspire heavily, and have diarrhea. Breathing becomes shallow, reflexes diminish, and the patient becomes unresponsive. Muscle weakness and hallucinations are common. The patient's heart beat slows dramatically and blood pressure plummets. Extreme toxicity, which can lead to coma and cardiac arrest, can be fatal.

Contents of Magnesium test kit

• 1 Colour strip on box of the kit
• 1 Test Instruction Sheet
• 1 Large Test-tube
• 1 Indicator stick

1 vial with clear cap - Reagent 1 (contains 10% sulphuric acid and care must be taken as it is corrosive - please avoid contact with skin or eyes)

Preparation of test for Magnesium

• Remove the indicator stick and small vial from the large test tube
• In the empty large test-tube, add 5 ml. of the solution to be tested
• The solution is now ready for testing
  

Conducting the test for Magnesium toxins

• Pour the contents from clear-cap vial (colourless Reagent 1) into the large test-tube. Note: the pH of this solution to be tested should be at 1 or less at this time
• Put the indicator stick into the mixed solutions (now turned acidic) in the large test-tube for one (1) second. Note: The reaction surface of the indicator stick must be completely immersed into the mixed solutions in the large test-tube
• Remove the indicator stick from the large test-tube and wait for 15 seconds
• Compare the colour on the reaction surface of the indicator stick to that of the colour strip provided

How to test for Magnesium in the body

• Add the required volume of the sample solution (saliva, water, urine, etc) to be tested for Magnesium into the test tube
• Close with the cap and shake gently. Allow the solutions to stand on the cap of the test tube for 1 minute.
• A colour change will indicate the presence of Magnesium (chart on label of kit).

Results from Magnesium testing kit

Result is measured accurately in parts per million. Tests the presence of ions of Magnesium to a high degree of accuracy to detect contamination in the body, water and on a wide range of materials in your environment