The Anti-Anti-Vax - Part 6 - Aluminum (Again)

A couple of weeks ago, there was an article trying, once again, to "expose the skyrocketing cases of autism" and link that with various things supposedly in vaccines.

One response went as follows:

According to the FDA & AAP Aluminum can build up in the brain and bones & is toxic to the body and it's organs. They also state that Aluminum can cause neurological harm.Per FDA, the maximum level of Al. allowed for 8 lb. healthy baby is approx 11-18 mcg.So how much Aluminum is in the vaccines routinely given to babies and children? 

• HepB (at birth) 250 mcg
• Hib 225 mcg
• DTaP 170 to 625 mcg
• HepA 250 mcg
• HPV 225 mcg
• Pentacel 330 mcg
• Pediarix 850 mcg

These amounts of Al. are not even safe for a 350 lb. adult, let alone a child who weighs less than 25 lbs. The neurotoxicity is made far more dangerous when mixed with another neurotoxin, thimerosal (mercury), which is STILL in many vaccines.  Dr Seneff is correct...add glyphosate to the mix, and we will continue to see the AutismEPIDEMIC numbers grow.

Given some real numbers to work with, I spent some time searching around to see if there was some basis for these numbers.  My response was:

Thanks for posting some actual numbers because at least numbers can be discussed. So let's see what the numbers say. 

First, just so everyone is on the same page and for those who aren't all that familiar with the metric system.... There are about 29 grams in one ounce. A milligram is 1/1000 of a gram ( 1 mg = 0.001 g). A microgram is 1/1000000 (one millionth) of a gram. It's usually abbreviated as ug but some people use mcg. One ug = 0.0000001 g.Yes, vaccines DO contain aluminum. Many "products" for babies contain aluminum, including: breast milk (0.04 mg/litre or 40 ug/litre), infant formula (0.225 mg/litre or 225 ug/litre), soy-based formula (0.46 to 0.93 mg/l or 460 to 930 ug/litre) and so on. 

If you give your baby a buffered aspirin, you will be giving them 10-20 mg of aluminum per tablet. That's 10000 to 20000 ug per tablet. Antacids, which you probably would not be giving to a baby, contain even more: 100 to 200 mg/tablet. 

The numbers you quote for aluminum in vaccines are correct and seem to vary from about 0.17 mg/dose to 0.85 mg/dose. That's 170 ug to 850 ug/dose. As you put it, 170 mcg to 850 mcg per dose. 

To put some numbers together - one dose of a vaccine, let's say 400 ug, to take an average, compared to 225 ug for every litre of infant formula (not soy-based because so many people are concerned about GMO soy) which an infant will drink probably every day or so. 

You can see that very quickly, a baby's infant formula will give him/her much more aluminum than a vaccine. 

People are generally more worried about newborns. According to one source, in the first 6 months, a baby will receive about 4 mg of aluminum from vaccines, about 10 mg from breast milk, about 40 mg from infant formula and over 120 mg from soy-based formula.According to your post's questionable logic, all of us would be receiving massive overdoses of aluminum from everything we eat and drink. It's a wonder we haven't turned into aluminum pots by now. 

Fortunately, your FDA reference isn't correct, for the following reason. The 11-18 ug of aluminum is referring to people receiving Total Patient Nutrition (TPN) which means they are being "fed" completely by an intravenous fluid. Multiple litres of fluid every day for weeks, months or years. The concern is about dissolved aluminum here. The FDA guidelines have nothing to do with vaccines. 

In vaccines, the aluminum is in the form of an insoluble solid and is not injected into the blood stream but into muscular or other subcutaneous tissue. Any aluminum salt that does not dissolve is excreted the same way as other solids are. 

There is much experience with aluminum in vaccines. Hundreds of millions of doses containing aluminum have been given since the 1920s when their use as adjuvants was developed. Not as much is known about aluminum build-up in people receiving TPN because the numbers of people involved are very small. But we're talking about two VERY different things here. 

This is why the amounts of aluminum in vaccines and breast milk and formula ARE safe for babies as well as that 350 lb adult you mention. 

Also, please stop saying that mercury is "STILL in many vaccines". It isn't, and hasn't for many years, nearly 2 decades. In Canada, the ONLY vaccines still containing thimerosal (ethyl mercury) is the HepB and multi-dose flu vaccines. Single-dose flu vaccines without thimerosal are available for children. And, despite removing thimerosal from vaccines, the autism rate has not changed. That, and the hundreds of studies done on the subject, show clearly that there is NO link between mercury and autism.

 Not that information will convince these people.  It's still mercury, aluminum, other toxins....and so on.  <sigh>