ArticleCureus2021
Chronic Mercury Poisoning From Daily Cosmetics: Case Report and Brief Literature Review.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of diseases caused by mercury overexposure: a systematic review of case reports and case series.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Mercury in skin lightening and skin care products purchased in New York City, 2009-2022.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Case Report: Mercury exposure and anti-LGI1/Caspr2 autoimmune encephalitis: a case series and literature review on the paradoxical worsening after chelation therapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Assessing Heavy Metal Contamination in Food: Implications for Human Health and Environmental Safety.Toxics · 2025Review
- Mercury poisoning-associated membranous nephropathy and autoimmune encephalitis.BMC nephrology · 2025Article
- Mercury exposure leading to functional vitamin B12 deficiency and subacute combined degeneration: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Chronic mercury poisoning from cosmetics is often misdiagnosed and mistreated due to atypical clinical presentations and high industrial standards and quality control of cosmetic products. Here we present a case of a 45-year-old female with a four-month history of progressive weakness, atrophy, insomnia, mood swings, chorea-like movement, extremity pain and hyperalgesia. The routine workup for neuropathy and myopathy such as CK, EMG were unremarkable. However heavy metal screen revealed significantly elevated mercury levels. Afterwards, we found it was caused by daily-use whitening cosmetics through the hair segmented toxicant analysis to trace the dynamics changing of mercury concentration in the body. After the removal of the patient from the source of exposure, and chelation therapy, her symptoms had gradually improved. When patients have unexplained behavioral changes, cognitive decline, sleep disturbance, fatigue, pain, and other unspecific manifestations, the possibility of mercury poisoning should be considered, blood mercury and urine mercury should be detected, and the source of exposure should be investigated and timely treatment should be given.
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