University Daily Kansan Thursday, November 9, 1978 Profs see fluoride risks By RON BAIN Staff Renorter By RON BAIN Students at the University of Kansas could be suffering from headaches, fatigue, stomach pains or depression because the university is no longer a history of science professor said Tuesday. The professor, Lewis McKuney, is coauthor of a book, "Floridation The Great: A Study in the Science of the Chemistry Albert Burgstahler and a Michigan physician, George Waldott. The book concludes that the harmful effects of human health outweigh any benefits to test However, a Kansas Department of Health and Environment official said yesterday the amount of fluoride added to the Lawrence water supply program per liter, was too small to cause illness. The official, Jack Burris, head of the Kansas Bureau of Water Management of the Department of the Environment, said some Kansas communities had natural supplies of fluoride in their water at higher concentration and a higher supply of fluoride in Lawrence water. "WE HAVEN'T SEEN any reports of our community that started fluoridation years ago from the communities that have had fluoride in their water naturally since the 1960s." But according to McKinney, at least three KU students suffered symptoms of fluoride poisoning last year. Those students were either in McKinney's classes or were friends of his, he said, and all complained of headaches and fatigue. McKinney said he could not drink only distilled or purified water, and their symptoms were gone in a week. McKinney said fluoride should be considered dangerous environmental "Anybody who is teetering between good health and bad health could actually be tipped toward bad health by another environmental contaminant, like fluorides," he said. CHRIS FRITZ & CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTIONS DESELMET Symptoms of fluoride poisoning could include headaches, fatigue, excessive thirst, frequent urination, vomiting, aches in the throat, swelling of the pains and depression, McKinney said. FLUORIDE HAS been considered a poison by the government, McKinney said, but fluoridation advocates persuaded government officials in the 1940s that small amounts of fluoride in water wouldn't hurt anyone and would strengthen teeth. McKinney said he hadn't seen any evidence that fluoride strengthened teeth, but he had seen evidence that fluoride made teeth brittle. However, Burris said he thought that fluoride was beneficial to teeth, particularly those of children, but that it could be dangerous in large amounts. "It can be used in very high concentrations as a poison," he said. In May 1974, a three-year-old boy, William Kennedy, died in a New York City hospital five hours after a fluoride paste was applied to his nose. The poisoning of fluoride poisoning to be the cause of death. McKinney said adding artificial fluorides to water was dangerous because an ac- cidential overdose could occur and because boiling water, such as in soup or coffee, could concentrate the fluride to a greater degree. A CALIFORNIA county accidentally overloaded its water supply with fluorides in 1977. McKinsey said that county, Marin, Calif., had a toxic fluoride poisoning during a two-week period in October 1977. The accidental fluoride fluoride in the county's water supply fluoride to 5.4 million gallons per liter of水。 McKinney said a person who drank 10 liters of that water in one day probably lost Burris said that didn't seem likely to him. "I don't know who in the world is going to have any problem." A chemist for the Lawrence Water department, K.T. Joseph, said it would be impossible to overdose the Lawrence water supply with fluoride. "There is no question of accidents at Lawrence. Joseph said, 'We check the door in your building.'" Joepead he didn't think the amount of fluoride in Lawrence water could cause any harm. HEY, THERE LOVERS! Flowers belong in your life. Show someone how much you care. Say "I love you" or just "Hello" with our HAPPINESS BOUQUET Basket arrangement of daisies, carnations and one rose to show you care . . . 8.50 Flower Shoppe 1101 Mass on the flower corner 841.0800 9:00-5:30 Tired of that long walk to campus? Call Mark Schneider 842-4414 or 843-3212 KANSAN TV TIMES HENRY'S RESTAURANT SINTHA MISSUER SUN 209 DRIVE-IN CARRY-OFF New Winter Hours Sunday 10:30-9 pm Monday: Thursday 2:30-5 pm Friday & Saturday 9 am-12 pm TONIGHT'S HIGHLIGHTS Ll 'Alen In Dogpatch 7:00; 4,27 Al Capi's comic strip characters come to life in this musical comedy. 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