Mercury poisoning
Mercury – the liquid metal with a boiling point 356.60 C, melting point – 38,90 C. Evaporate at room or even zero temperature. The contents of mercury vapor in the air increases with temperature and surface evaporation, which becomes particularly significant in the spill, when the mercury falls into many smaller droplets.
Mercury easily penetrates the slits floors, furniture, wall adsorbed porous bodies, including wood, paper, cloth, and plaster, long kept there and become the source of indoor air pollution.
Mercury has no odor, evaporating it turns into a colorless vapor; its sensory presence in the air is not detected. Chronic metallic mercury poisoning are described in the mercury mines and factories in the manufacture and repair of measuring instruments, electronic equipment, mercury rectifiers, pumps.
Mercury vapor penetrates the body through the respiratory tract. When entering the digestive tract metallic mercury is low toxic and almost entirely devoted to the faeces. There have been experiences of mercury poisoning as a result of rubbing mercurial ointment to the skin.
Mercury has the ability to penetrate in various organs (liver, kidney, spleen, brain, heart) and has an impact on the body, occasionally doing a depot in the blood flow. Excrete with the help of kidney, mucosa, digestive, saliva, sweat-gland, with milk and bile.