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[shifter]

I ordered a heap of nice pyrite crystals on ebay, but they arrived to me in a billion pieces and I incidently breathed in some dust.

I imgine my lungs wont like that very much and probably got enough iron in me to shun it out of my diet for a long time to come. I cant give blood as I had surgery a little while ago so I was wondering how I might be able to 'undo' some of the damage (or even if its undo-able).

Any supplements that can mop out this rubbish?

Thanks

[niner]

I ordered a heap of nice pyrite crystals on ebay, but they arrived to me in a billion pieces and I incidently breathed in some dust.

I imgine my lungs wont like that very much and probably got enough iron in me to shun it out of my diet for a long time to come. I cant give blood as I had surgery a little while ago so I was wondering how I might be able to 'undo' some of the damage (or even if its undo-able).

Any supplements that can mop out this rubbish?

Thanks

You probably didn't get that much of a dose in a brief exposure. If you have normal lungs, you will be able to clear the large particles relatively easily. I would expect that the toxicity from iron sulfide would be acute but not long term, in that it would form toxic H2S on exposure to stomach acid, but this is the sort of thing that isn't going to be a problem with the sub-milligram dose that you probably got. I wouldn't worry about it. Eat one less serving of red meat this week. If that puts you into negative meat territory, then you probably don't have an iron overload problem to begin with.

[lunarsolarpower]

I imgine my lungs wont like that very much and probably got enough iron in me to shun it out of my diet for a long time to come.

Is there more to your story you're not telling us?

I doubt that the iron is even available to your body seeing as it is insoluble. If you inhaled enough to cause serious dyspnea you could go see a pulmonologist but that seems really unlikely.

Edited by lunarsolarpower, 04 March 2008 - 12:26 AM.

[shifter]

However much I breathed in, it was enough to irritate my nose. I did still try to pick out the semi decent pieces (prolonging the time I was 'around' the dust but trying not to breathe) but I think i'll throw those out too. (Such crappy pyrite it just crumbles in your hand!) A lot of the dust was also quite visable so just worried about what that would do in the lungs and then later the bloodstream. Ah well I guess people working in mineshafts put up with a lot worse.

Being insoluble hopefully it will just get excreted out and not lodged elsewhere.

I imgine my lungs wont like that very much and probably got enough iron in me to shun it out of my diet for a long time to come.

Is there more to your story you're not telling us?

I doubt that the iron is even available to your body seeing as it is insoluble. If you inhaled enough to cause serious dyspnea you could go see a pulmonologist but that seems really unlikely.