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Barium

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It is an element of grey/white color usually intermixed in nature with sulfur or with carbon and oxygen.

It is used the industry in order to drill better in the mud.

Barium keeps drilling machinery in good condition.

In addition  barium is used  also in the preparation of colors, white, ceramics, rubber and glass.

Sulfuric barium is used by  doctors in X-ray pipe tests for digestion

 

How are we exposed to barium?

By consuming small amounts that are in food and water or by aspiration of contaminated air in low levels.

By occupational exposure.

By living in places adjacent to industrial areas and the aspiration of the dust that contains small  amounts of barium

 

How the barium influences on my  health?

The effect depends of the capacity of our body to dissolve barium.

For example sulfuric barium is dissolved slowly and it is not very harmful to the body.

In contrast with exposure to  barium in toxicity levels it can provoke disorders in digestion system.

Within 1 to 4 hours it will cause  hypoglycemia decreasing the  potassium that will provoke weakness in  muscles and progressively will cause paralysis of them and breath system.

 

Food containing barium

 

Certain fish

Algae

Walnuts 



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