So My 8 Year Old Neice Tells me That Her School Gives Her Fluoride Pills. . .

[Meta Reign]

She goes to Glenfare elementary school in Portland, Oregan. Has anyone heard of this happening anywhere else?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Dietary fluoride supplements (tablets, drops or lozenges) are available only by prescription and are intended for use by children ages six months to 16 years living in nonfluoridated areas and at high risk of developing tooth decay. Your dentist or physician can prescribe the correct dosage. It is based on the natural fluoride concentration of the child's drinking water and the age of the child. For optimum benefits, use of dietary fluoride supplements should begin when a child is six months old and be continued daily until the child is 16 years old. The need for taking dietary fluoride supplements over an extended period of time makes dietary fluoride supplements less cost-effective than water fluoridation; therefore, dietary fluoride supplements are considerably less practical as a wide-spread alternative to water fluoridation as a public health measure. Fluoride supplements are recommended only for children living in non-fluoridated areas and at high risk of developing tooth decay.

is it a "nonfluoridated" area?

 

[Polygraph steez]

not sure about pills but when i was in like 3rd grade-ish our school nurse used to bring us a cup of bubble gum flavored fluoride for us to gargle it for about 30 seconds. looking back, if i knew better i would not have done it

 

[Crakface]

I dont drink tap water so why would i want fluoride in my body.

 

[Meta Reign]

I dont drink tap water so why would i want fluoride in my body.

Well, lets just call this what it is. A eugenics program.

She tells me that her mom has to sign a form allowing it at the beginning of each school year. She also says that the school tells the kids that if they take the pill that their parents should not allow them to use fluoride toothpaste. They claim to give it to the kids for their teeth.

 

[Starman]

What do you guys think fluoride does?

 

[Crakface]

Well, lets just call this what it is. A eugenics program.

She tells me that her mom has to sign a form allowing it at the beginning of each school year. She also says that the school tells the kids that if they take the pill that their parents should not allow them to use fluoride toothpaste. They claim to give it to the kids for their teeth.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

July 25, 2012 — For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment. In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.

The study (also available at this link) was published online inEnvironmental Health Perspectives on July 20, 2012.

The researchers conducted a systematic review of studies, almost all of which are from China where risks from fluoride are well-established. Fluoride is a naturally occurring substance in groundwater, and exposures to the chemical are increased in some parts of China. Virtually no human studies in this field have been conducted in the U.S., said lead author Anna Choi, research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health at HSPH.

Even though many of the studies on children in China differed in many ways or were incomplete, the authors consider the data compilation and joint analysis an important first step in evaluating the potential risk. “For the first time we have been able to do a comprehensive meta-analysis that has the potential for helping us plan better studies. We want to make sure that cognitive development is considered as a possible target for fluoride toxicity,” Choi said.

Choi and senior author Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health at HSPH, and their colleagues collated the epidemiological studies of children exposed to fluoride from drinking water. The China National Knowledge Infrastructure database also was included to locate studies published in Chinese journals. They then analyzed possible associations with IQ measures in more than 8,000 children of school age; all but one study suggested that high fluoride content in water may negatively affect cognitive development.

The average loss in IQ was reported as a standardized weighted mean difference of 0.45, which would be approximately equivalent to seven IQ points for commonly used IQ scores with a standard deviation of 15.* Some studies suggested that even slightly increased fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain. Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. The children studied were up to 14 years of age, but the investigators speculate that any toxic effect on brain development may have happened earlier, and that the brain may not be fully capable of compensating for the toxicity.

“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain,” Grandjean says. “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

 

[Brown Ant]

Fluoride is poison, it's pathetic how they're doing that. I filter out fluoride in my water.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Resident Geordie]

In the NE of England we've had Flourdide in our water since the 60s, is that why our teeth are in such good condition?

 

[RicanFury]

Fluoride is poison, it's pathetic how they're doing that. I filter out fluoride in my water.

do you know of a flouride filtering item i could buy?

 

[IGSaint12]

If your niece takes those fluoride tablets she is going to end up a retard. Fluoride has been known to lower kids IQs.

 

[Brown Ant]

do you know of a flouride filtering item i could buy?

I got mine off Amazon. Just search online.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

fukking disgusting

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

:tinfoil: