Clare Minshall, Jodie Nadal, Christopher Exley
Aluminium in human sweat
in: Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 28 (2014) 87–88
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51730048http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-trace-elements-in-medicine-and-biology/"Introduction
Humans are experiencing a burgeoning exposure to aluminium
with concomitant effects upon the body burden [1]. The latter is
the sum of all aluminium associated with the internal and external
body at any one time and is significantly influenced by excretion.
Currently it is assumed that urine is the major route for excretion
of systemic aluminium with up to 100 µg being excreted daily [1].
Recent data have suggested that perspiration might be a significant
route of excretion of systemic aluminium [2,3]. Data on the aluminium
content of sweat are, nevertheless, rare and range from as
little as 15 µg/L [4] to in excess of 5000 µg/L [2]. Since humans produce
anything from between 0.5 and 4.0 L of sweat per day [5,6],
often depending upon the level of physical activity, then perspiration
could represent a significant and largely ignored route of
excretion of aluminium from the body. Herein we have collected
samples of sweat from 20 healthy volunteers and measured their
content of aluminium. The data point towards perspiration as a
significant route of excretion of systemic aluminium in humans."
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