{"id":8643,"date":"2025-06-03T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:10:13","slug":"mercury-exposure-pink-disease-and-youngs-syndrome-a-forgotten-public-health-disaster-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2025\/06\/03\/mercury-exposure-pink-disease-and-youngs-syndrome-a-forgotten-public-health-disaster-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury exposure, pink disease and Young's syndrome: a forgotten public health disaster (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Type of publication:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journal article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown, Megan; Hendley, Victoria; *Ahmad, Nawaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMJ Case Reports. 18(4), 2025 Apr 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pink disease was once a widespread phenomenon, known to physicians throughout the Western world. Its prevalence declined massively once the source, mercury, was identified in several products. In modern medicine, pink disease rarely forms a differential and is known only to few physicians, despite the long-term effects of this illness. This report details a case of a man who suffered from pink disease as a child following his mother applying teething powder containing inorganic mercury to his gums for 12 weeks, from the age of 6 months. He received no treatment at the time. Throughout his lifetime, however, the man (in his 70s) has been diagnosed as infertile, and with bronchiectasis, despite a lack of convincing history to suggest an aetiology. The cause of these pathologies remains elusive, either organically occurring or components of Young's syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libkey.io\/libraries\/1791\/articles\/662825769\/full-text-file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to full-text<\/a> [NHS OpenAthens account required]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of publication: Journal article Author(s): Brown, Megan; Hendley, Victoria; *Ahmad, Nawaid. Citation: BMJ Case Reports. 18(4), 2025 Apr 26. Abstract: Pink disease was once a widespread phenomenon, known to physicians throughout the Western world. Its prevalence declined massively once<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2025\/06\/03\/mercury-exposure-pink-disease-and-youngs-syndrome-a-forgotten-public-health-disaster-2025\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercury exposure, pink disease and Young's syndrome: a forgotten public health disaster (2025)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[1085],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-publication","tag-1085"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}