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by Someone on October 12th, 2007
If you ingest something it GOES into your blood stream so I'd say MOST DEFINITELY!
by iwnit on October 12th, 2007
"I am sure you will get "Tetanus", if you eat the rust."
Source:
http://www.byedr.com/medicine/3581-1-byedr.html
Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus#Association_with_rust
by AnonymousGuitarist on December 26th, 2007
I would imagine so.
by KillaBrew on October 25th, 2010
No, because stomach acid which is pretty much the same as hydrochloric acid would kill tetanus. If your talking cooking on a rusty grill the heat would kill anything bad anyway and if its so rusty that rust is flaking off into the food avoid cooking on it. You only need a tetanus shot every 10 years and that's only bad thing that happens with rust in the blood stream. One might say you get healthy dose of iron by cooking on rust might give you a stomach ache...
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Does it???? Blood is in the veins and capularies....To Ingest is to swallow...which leads to the stomach and eventually the bowels.
by Redhawk on October 12th, 2007
How do you think nutriants from food gets into your body? I mean, do you take injections everyday? No? Well, that's because the stomach is there to digest and break down what you eat. If you eat rust, it'll break it down to what it can, and whatever was broken down will be carried out to your blood stream, what is not will be your waste.
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Same with injesting poisons or really, anything!
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
I'm still not convinced...you have a point, up to a point...but I think there's something we both missed in human biology...And now I'm really wanting to know for sure...dang it! lmao My partner agrees with YOU 100%. What you say makes sense...I just think there is something we are missing here...but I don't know what the heck it is!
by Redhawk on October 12th, 2007
How are you not convinced?
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
http://www.essentialfats.com/bodywork.pdf Read the digestive system, whole thing.
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
I don't know!!! I suck at science and biology! Maybe I'm wondering if the rust would not BE digestible...like Mercury. If you accidentally ingest Mercury...it will NOT digest...but will pass through...This FACT my partner learned when her son, bit off the end of a thermometer as a toddler... the Doctors said IF he swallowed it, it would not be absorbed, but would simply pass through.
by Redhawk on October 12th, 2007
Ahhhh thank you...will do! DANG...great link!!! Read that...and saved it for future reference! Now the question is...is Rust like Mercury or would be a toxin that would be absorbed? ack ack ack!
by Redhawk on October 12th, 2007
nevermind wrong link
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
Basically what I've found was that if you ingest small amounts you'd be okay. Rust can be found in our water etc. But ingesting large amounts would be pretty bad since an over dose in any metal in our body, iron, zinc etc, can hurt different organs and bodily functions.
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
Oh and by wrong link, I meant I made a post there, gave a link, but realized it was the wrong one XD the one about the digestive system was still right XD
by Someone on October 12th, 2007
I am content! It WAS a cool link, just the same. And in speaking on this at home we came to the same concept that large amounts could result in some sort of heavy metal poisoning or something similar.
by Redhawk on October 12th, 2007