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Possible Symptoms of Fluoride Poisoning

Please Note: Having one or more of these symptoms does not necessarily mean you are fluoride poisoned. This page is offered only as a guide, which can help you determine whether fluoride poisoning is a possibility. Only your doctor can diagnose and treat you.*

Arthritis – stiff, painful joints with or without swelling; painful feet in morning
Asthma – especially after showering in chlorine-filtered water
Bony, painful lumps where tendons and ligaments attach to bones. Calcifications of connective tissue on X-ray, especially with pain and reduced range of motion
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) – especially if it persists when you spend time in an unfluoridated city or switch to distilled water for drinking and cooking
Cold – temperature below normal, feeling cold all the time, feeling cold soon after a hot bath or shower
Colic in bottle-fed babies or colic developing when breast-fed babies start solids or are weaned
Dental fluorosis (white or brown spots on teeth)
Diabetes – worsening symptoms
Diabetes insipidus (a kidney ailment) – excessive thirst, increased water consumption that does not relieve thirst, dry throat and irritated eyes, and frequent, dilute urine, especially at night, with normal blood sugar findings
Eyes – moving black spots (scotoma, or floaters)
Fatigue, weakness and brain fog after bathing or showering in chlorine-filtered water (similar symptoms can occur from chlorine sensitivity)
Fibromyalgia (severe muscle weakness and/or pain with extremely sore spots on various bony areas)
Food intolerances that seem to come and go
Gastrointestinal problems – irritable bowel, nausea, diarrhea without apparent cause, heartburn and upper bowel pain especially after drinking a full glass of water
Gum disease – irritated or bleeding gums despite good hygiene and diet; gums heal when you use unfluoridated toothpaste
Heart palpitations and increased heart rate without exertion
Kidney disease – worsening symptoms, kidney stones
Skin – hives, blisters, rash on stomach or back within an hour of drinking fluoridated water or after bathing or showering in chlorine-filtered water
Tea drinking – causes upset stomach, gastric pain, heart palpitations or “the jitters” similar to strong coffee
Teeth – loosening or needing to be extracted despite good hygiene and diet
Thyroid diseases – underactive (hypothyroid), overactive (hyperthyroid or Graves disease), goiter and nodules

If you suspect you may be, indeed, fluoride poisoned, we offer you a self-help protocol for immediate response to your symptoms.

A Note on Fluoride Sensitivity

People can be fluoride-intolerant (toxicity, illness or pain reactions from non-histamine response) or fluoride-allergic (histamine response) from birth or from exposure and accumulation (acquired). They are the same problem with different routes of expression.

Individuals may be:

born hypersensitive (about 1% of the population, of all ages, probably a genetic component)
hypersensitive or increasingly severe after accumulating too much (chronically poisoned; can happen to anyone born and raised in a fluoridated area, but may also have a genetic component)
hypersensitive after acute episode: poisoned from fluorinated drugs, pesticides, workplace exposure, or synergistic toxicity with exposures to electromagnetic fields (e.g. cell phone tower radiation), vaccines, chemicals or emotional trauma (e.g., car accident or tour of duty in a war zone) when previous to that exposure you were fine; now you have become intolerant of or allergic to fluoridated water and all other sources of fluoride

* Our Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative already has several Collaborative members, located in various places, who are MDs and are willing to see people who are fluoride poisoned. These doctors (and some dentists, too) accept the fact that people can be poisoned by fluoride, and they are learning about fluoride poisoning and ways it can be treated. Not all of these doctors feel competent to treat fluoride poisoning, but they have agreed to learn and to serve as liaisons for patients in their area. If you are having trouble finding a doctor who is friendly to the idea, please contact us and we will try to find you a nearby practitioner who is a Collaborative member.