Most Common Signs and Symptoms of Barium Poisoning
The possibility of barium poisoning is a reality among people working in and living near heavy industrial sites such as chemical plants, factories that produce rubber products and other such places. That is because barium is one of the components used in manufacturing the products created in these plants.
However, because many of these products end up in ordinary households, it is also possible for a person who does not work in or live near an industrial plant to experience barium poisoning. Rat poison, for instance, contains barium compounds. Some fluorescent bulbs have coatings made from barium oxide. Fish caught in waters near industrial sites may have absorbed barium from the water.
Given the considerable probability of a person becoming afflicted with barium poisoning, how would you know for sure if you or someone living with you ingested barium at toxic levels? If you find yourself or someone living in your household with symptoms of barium poisoning, then you should act immediately.
What Is Barium?
In order to understand how serious barium poisoning is, we need first to understand what barium is in the first place. Barium is a heavy metal that naturally occurs in the environment. It is silvery white in appearance.
Barium is valuable in many industries that make use of heavy metal because it can remove traces of oxygen in some chemical compounds. It also increases the luster of glass. However, barium is explosive and can react violently when mixed with water. Also, it cannot be digested by the body; barium can be poisonous if the amount the body contains exceeds tolerable levels.
Symptoms of Barium Poisoning to Look For
When barium accumulates in the body, it usually affects the functions of the nervous system. Barium poisoning displays symptoms that are similar to flu, which is why it is not strange to find the condition misdiagnosed as flu. Common symptoms of barium poisoning include:
1. Muscle weakness and tremors
2. Difficulty in breathing
3. Stomach irritations accompanied by diarrhea
4. Anxiety
5. Cardiac irregularities such as abnormally high blood pressure and rapid heartbeat
6. Paralysis
What to Do in Case of Barium Poisoning
In case someone in your household has just ingested something that contains barium, the first thing you need to do is to induce him or her to vomit. This will get some of the barium out of the victim’s system. You can also mix a tablespoon of Epsom salts (sodium sulfate or magnesium sulfate) with a glass of water and get the victim to drink it. Afterwards, you should bring the victim to the emergency room of the nearest hospital to make sure that he or she does not succumb to barium poisoning.
You can also prevent barium poisoning from happening in your home. For one, you should keep your rat poison or any other chemical substances in your house that contains barium out of reach of children. Make sure that you have labeled their containers properly.
You should also avoid eating fish that was caught near industrial sites and ascertain that the fish and seafood you eat does not contain barium or any other heavy metal. This will prevent you from accumulating barium in your system and suffer from barium poisoning later on.
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December 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Our young son works in a plant mixing drilling mud components into a large hopper in a confined area. He wears a dusk mask but I wouldn’t be surprised if he has inhaled some dust in the process as he is new in his job. He empties large bags of barite (and bentonite I think) for many hours during the day to make the mud. He is home on his xmas break and has a terrible continual flu-like chesty cough (and it’s Summer) yet he doesn’t have any other flu related symptoms like sneezing or a runny nose.
He doesn’t display any other listed symptoms of barium poisoning eg: difficulty in breathing, stomach, muscle or paralysis problems.
Are we able to easily diagnose ourselves whether barite has accumulated in his body and if so, will his body be able to rid of it naturally, or will he need to be treated professionally?
We would appreciate your advice.
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:37 pm
My wife has symptoms that include constant tenseness, weakness , anxiety, cannot use hands and is confined to a wheelchair. She recently test elevated for barium. What does this mean? She had not had any barium enemas or any other typical use of barium. Where could she have possibly come into contact with this? We live in West Texas near Abilene. Please help us here.
May 17th, 2010 at 8:04 am
If what i have been reading about online and also can see for myself is true, there is a ongoing toxic downpour of barium, lead, aluminum oxide,arsenic,and other harmfull heavy metals being dumped all over the planet from planes its better known as Chemtrails and i am sure you can locate alot of info online if you start looking into the matter yourself. I dont fully understand why alot of our governments are allowing this to go on but i can see it for myself on a daily basis .I wake up early and go outside and look up at a blue clear sky, and sure enough plane after plane starts rolling over the sky leaving mile long “cloudlike” paths of what they claim are normal contrails, but as far as i know contrails are made from the hot jetexhaust getting in contact with the cold outside the engines and it disspates after a minute or less and the stuff these planes leave behind stays in the sky for hrs on end slowly turning a blue sky grey and dull looking more or less blocking out the sun. I have read alot about this “nonexsistant” problem and its becoming more and more clear to me that something is really goin on. A german doctor has also been in primetime tv talking about this issue as its not only happening in the states but all across the planet . Hope this might give you a clue as to where she might have gotten her barium poisoning.
May 25th, 2010 at 6:17 am
charles murphy i know exactly where your wife got the barium from. ever heard of CHEMTRAILS (look it up) they contain the metal barium and the gov’t has jets flying all over the world spraying these “CHEMTRAILS”. tell your wife to eat all the fiber and fruits and veggies she can. it will help rid the barium. the chemtrails are part of a much bigger story than we are led to believe.
June 29th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Hello Everyone:
I live in San Rafael, CA. We had a long period of very strange weather starting in April with changing weather each day the last week of May, including horrible smells in the air, horrible sensations on the skin, and horrible tastes in the mouth. We had destructive very high winds and abnormally large clouds, including HAARP-like luminous clouds, for this time of year just before that. At 2:30 a.m. on the morning of June 3rd, I woke up with a “frozen” face, pins and needles and numbness in hands, arms, feet and lower legs. It felt like I was going paralyzed. The cops called an ambulance for me but denied any weird smells in the air (I can clearly smell the crap). The ER doc put in my chart that I am “delusional…” This idiot didn’t realize I was exhibiting classic signs of barium poisoning. My Ba level was 270 out of an optimal <11 mcg/L. I should be dead. Where did the barium come from? The Effing Weather experiments being conducted over the Pacific Ocean. They are blasting us with this crap and it is NOW TIME TO START A PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF THIS, UPFRONT, AND IN FRONT OF OUR SO-CALLED "ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES," AS WELL AS THE ZIONIST-OWNED AND CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA. SO LET'S ALL GET OVER OUR CHICKEN-LIVERED LITTLE BITTY SELVES AND GET MOVING NOW. SHEESH.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
There is a lot of paranoia about substances here, and many viewpoints I’ve just read are… well, ill informed.
Right now, as I post this, I am suffering from Barium poisoning, and not for the first time. This is because I regularly work with Soluble Barium salts in large quantities, and yesterday was one of those days.
I ache, feel lethargic, my gut feels bad and I have a headache.
Tomorrow, I should feel fine. This stuff does not seem to accumulate. Most will be excreted within 24 hours in my urine, if I remember correctly, the rest will be excreted in other ways, and just a tiny bit will replace calcium in my bones (not a bad thing).
Because I know what I’m up against with Barium, I don’t fear it.
Now, I don’t deny that there are cover ups in government and media worlds. But all this chem-trail talk is clearly paranoid and uninformed panic. Firstly, what evidence is there for it? Other peoples confused ideas do not count as evidence.
Why would a plane carry up toxic substances which play no role in any part of an airlines flight, simply to dump them in the sky? There are much cheaper ways of dumping toxic chemicals, that do not require adding more weight in the form of dispersing equipment and the substances themselves on a plane- a vehicle where weight is an expense.
And since When was Aluminium oxide a ‘hevy metal’? It’s neither heavy, nor toxic.
I’m off to detox…
July 27th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Maybe they are using the barium to be able to pick up images of our bodies via xray.