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Health related problems caused my Magnesium exposure

You could be suffering from Magnesium poisoning symptoms, simple home health check to see your Magnesium exposure levels.

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 diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea
• Cisplatin (a chemotherapy drug)
• Long-term diuretic therapy
• Hypoglycaemia (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 diarrhoea 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

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

Preparation of Magnesium toxicity test

• Remove cap from test tube.
• Empty liquid content from vial into test tube.
• Cap test tube and turn the test tube so that the cap is pointing towards the ground and liquid gets inside the cap.  Then shake until the solution turns green
• The solution is now ready for testing the presence of Magnesium.

NB: Testing should be completed within 30 minutes of activating the solution (turn green) as it will deteriorate after that time.

Conducting the test

How to test for Magnesium in the body

• Add the required volume of the sample solution (saliva, water, etc) to be tested into the green solution in the test tube using the pipette provided
• Close the test tube with the cap and shake vigorously. 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).
• If there is no colour change, i.e...., the solution stays green, there are no Magnesium present.

Magnesium heavy metal testing water Preparation

No preparation is necessary for testing Magnesium contamination in water. Magnesium drinking water test, urine test for Magnesium or other water samples collected can be tested for Magnesium and the reaction (result) would be immediate. Always use first morning water sample from faucet or tap. Use 3-4 ml of the water sample.

Results

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