class="shnbodyWhen she gets to the rocks, she shakes her head, picks a mallet and hits a rock as hard as possible, just as she has done for years, after developing weakness in other parts of the body, from a disease suspected to be
skeletal fluorosis, which has wreaked havoc in an entire village near Lake Baringo.
There is an expanding breadth of knowledge of the potential detrimental effects associated with DFE including acute kidney injury (AKI), angioedema, frostbite, cardiomyopathy,
skeletal fluorosis, and fatal arrhythmias occurring within minutes of use (Table 1) [3-9].
At 1.5 ppm fluoride level, only adults were suffering with
skeletal fluorosis. The prevalence of
skeletal fluorosis was higher in males, and it increased with age and higher fluoride level.
Whilst low amounts of fluoride are beneficial for healthy teeth, high levels of fluoride can weaken bones, leading to
skeletal fluorosis. This disease causes crippling deformities of the spine and joints, especially in children whose skeletons are still forming.
[USA], Nov 14 (ANI): A simple colour-changing test to detect fluoride in drinking water could in the future prevent the crippling bone disease,
skeletal fluorosis, in developing countries such as India and Tanzania.
Dental fluorosis which manifests as discolouration of teeth and
skeletal fluorosis which are endemic are most early biomarkers of fluoride toxicity.
But beyond a certain limit it can lead to a condition called crippling
skeletal fluorosis that is associated with the extreme bone deformity.
Fluorosis extraperiosteal calcification and ossification could be detected during the development of severe
skeletal fluorosis (2).
Gupta and Ayoob apply the principles and methods of environmental engineering to the geo-genic pollution of drinking water with fluoride They cover a global perspective on fluoride in drinking water, a scenario of fluoride pollution, dental fluorosis,
skeletal fluorosis, stress effects of fluoride on humans, fluoride in the environment and its toxicological effects, an overview of defluoridation techniques, and a case study of the adsorptive removal of fluoride.