Re: does calamine lotion contain mercury?

[Guest guest]

You can plug " calamine " and " ingredients " into any search engine to

see the ingredients in different products. It does not at this time

contain mercury as an ingredient.

HTH,

>

> A patient of Dr DeMio (he's in Ohio) says Dr D says not to use

> calamine lotion b/c it contains mercury. I can't find anything on-

> line about it. We've been using calamine to calm eczema this

spring.

> Now I'm wondering if we've done something really horrible. Does

> anyone know if calamine still contains mercury? I thought it is

zinc

> oxide!...

[Guest guest]

http://www.cpr-savers.com/consumer/Outdoor/calamine.html

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=83000 & catid=44616 & trx=29384 & tab=0\

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Zinc is the 'active' ingredient - there are several more 'inactive'

ingredients that seem to have no harmful properties at first glance - not

mercury at least that I could see in these first 2 ingredient lists I

found...

- near LAX

>

> A patient of Dr DeMio (he's in Ohio) says Dr D says not to use

> calamine lotion b/c it contains mercury. I can't find anything on-

> line about it. We've been using calamine to calm eczema this spring.

> Now I'm wondering if we've done something really horrible. Does

> anyone know if calamine still contains mercury? I thought it is zinc

> oxide!

>

[Guest guest]

Seems like maybe it used to contain mercury...

http://www.autismalliance.org/oldankesbookcorner.htm

http://www.mercuryinschools.uwex.edu/curriculum/national-curriculum.htm

but it appears to be ok now...as far as I can tell searching around

Margaret

www.helpingdelayedkids.com tips that have worked for us

does calamine lotion contain mercury?

A patient of Dr DeMio (he's in Ohio) says Dr D says not to use

calamine lotion b/c it contains mercury. I can't find anything on-

line about it. We've been using calamine to calm eczema this spring.

Now I'm wondering if we've done something really horrible. Does

anyone know if calamine still contains mercury? I thought it is zinc

oxide!

Thanks,

Penny

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