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“I got a call at 6 a.m. from Bei.” Li said. “it was definitely thallium poisoning.” She had nearly 100 times the normal amount of thallium in her blood, and 1,000 times more in her nails, he said.
“the hair loss was the big clue,” said Dr.Hamilton of the new york city poison center, who had seen the message on the internet. “of all the possible heavy metal poisonings, wholesale replica designer handbags, thallium is distinctive because of that.”
Dr. Hamilton used email to advice li, who passed along the information to doctors in Beijing. “it’s not surprising the doctors there didn’t think of thallium toxicity.” Dr. Hamilton said. “There have only been sporadic reports of it.” After making the diagnosis, the next step was to fnd a treatment. All the toxicologists li Colorado to New York agreed: Ms. Zhu must be given a dye called Prussian blue, commonly found in chemistry labs.
Thallium molecules are trapped in the dye, and when Prussian blue is excreted from the body in urine and feces, wholesale designer handbags, so is the thallium. Dialysis would help the process along, cleaning the blood of the heavy metal.
By may 3, Prussian blue was being fed to Ms.zhu through a tube in her nose. The thallium began to leave her body, along with the brilliant blue dye. At one point, even her perspiration was blue. As her thallium levels dropped, she began to get better.
“on may 30, she showed the first sign of some neurological recovery,” li said. “Her parents stood close to her bed, wholesale coach handbags and her blood pressure and pulse went up. They went down again when her parents left. She was excited.” Ms.Zhu remained in the intensive care until June 8. When she was moved to a regular ward because she finally could breathe without the help of machines. And now Beijing doctors still are using Prussian blue to clear the last of the thallium out of her system.
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