Heavy metal poisoning from cheap kettle?
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I bought a cheap $20 kettle off Amazon that I’ve been using about a year. Recently I made some green tea and the tea smelled vaguely like dish washer detergent. I didn’t think much of it and finished the cup. Hours later I have stomach pain, gas, bloating, indigestion, and acid reflux. I go to smell my kettle thinking of the green tea and there’s a strong order of dish washer detergent. Threw away the kettle.
Soon after the diarrhea starts. I haven’t had anything spicy in weeks but every time I go it’s like I’m pissing acid out my asshole. It burns really bad. I took 600mg lactoferrin hoping that would help. The abdominal pain went away but the rest of the symptoms remained.
It’s been now 3 days and the acid diarrhea has turned into normal diarrhea. I still have gas, bloating, indigestion, and acid reflux no matter what I eat. I tried just drinking kefir and milk all day and that hasn’t don’t anything.
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@Leon it's certianly plausible. I discussed this briefly in my coffee thread. I would highly recommend not using a metal kettle at all. I bet most people who use metal kettles have chronic toxic metal poisoning. I used to get daily mild midday headaches using a stove top metal kettle, then I switched to microwaving my water and it went away. Those electric kettles you can literally see and smell the toxicity accumulating in your water with the wear on the base of the plate kettle and the smell of what I assume was degrading metal with mine. I threw mine away years ago because I thought it was burning plastic, but apparently it's just a general feature of electric kettles. I would recommend a glass kettle. Even if you have an induction stove you can either keep the heat low and use a plate, or get a burner.
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Thanks I’m going to start some activated charcoal and chlorophyll therapy. Will update as I progress.
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Update: After 1200mg charcoal and 50mg liquid chlorophyll daily for 5 days after my last post I was symptom free.
