poisoned by the dishwasher
Toggle, I don't understand how a silicone sealer made for aquariums would have anything to leach into the water that would render people idiots. The non-aquarium silicones have arsenic, I think, to inhibit mold growth, but if anything was going to leach into the water that would damage people neurologically, just from the minute amount that would be a trace film on the dried dishes, it would quickly kill fish that lived in the tank of water into which it was leaching. What did they find in the hair samples of the sealant victims? How long did it take after the dw repair for the family to exhibit symptoms? Was it just the doctor's family and not the doctor who had neurological damage? That would be strange unless the doctor was poisoning his family. Are you sure that this was not more of a Love Canal thing than dishwasher repair? If this was caused by the sealant, why were there not warnings about a very widely used product? The neurological symptoms you describe sound more like the effects of mercury or lead or one of the other heavy metals. Lead has been banned from solder for a long time, but could have leached from the pipes in an older house. Were the kids and mother all poisoned? Were the kids doing drugs? Were they using dishes with lead or cadmium in the glaze? Worse yet, were they mixing and storing KoolAid & citrus drinks in a metalic container or in a ceramic pitcher with a lead or cadmium glaze that was leaching into the acidic solution? Washing ceramic ware with a poor glaze that contained lead or cadmium in the dishwasher would certainly damage the glaze to where it would leach far faster into food and drink. Did they keep wine or liquor in lead crystal decanters? Lead leaches into those liquids very quickly. Something about this story does not add up. I respect the necessity to guard ourselves from contaminents and I respect you and I know that you would not knowingly relate something as the truth that you knew was false when you know we would slash you, our dear friend Toggle, to shreds within seconds of discovering the truth, but I think we have more in this dishwasher sealant story than aquarium sealer.
