What kind of disease will be caused by long-term use of aluminum products

As we all know, aluminum is toxic, and many Chinese families like to cook with aluminum pots. This is not a good habit. Long-term consumption of food made with aluminum products will lead to aluminum poisoning in the human body and cause various types of diseases such as aluminum encephalopathy, osteomalacia, and anemia. So if you often use aluminum pots to cook at home, you must change this habit. After all, the health of your family is more important than anything else!

1. Aluminum encephalopathy

Aluminum will enter the brain through the blood-brain barrier and other pathways, increasing the brain aluminum content, causing neuronal fiber degeneration, promoting brain aging, causing Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, confusion, and uncoordinated behavior (medically known as ataxia). Animal experiments have shown that aluminum encephalopathy can occur when the aluminum content in brain tissue exceeds the normal value by 3 to 6 times, while encephalopathy will only occur in the human body when the aluminum content exceeds the normal brain tissue content by 10 to 20 times. If children consume too much aluminum and develop encephalopathy, it may cause microcephaly, developmental delay, decreased muscle tone, malnutrition, etc.

The clinical symptoms and severity of symptoms in patients with aluminum encephalopathy are often proportional to the aluminum content in the brain. Its early symptoms are often memory loss, withdrawn personality, depression, lack of energy, lack of activity, and a significant decrease in interest; the mid-term symptoms are severe memory impairment, a significant decrease in intelligence, a significant decrease in comprehension, analytical and comprehensive ability, and judgment, abnormal behavior, irritability, beating and scolding people for no reason, and even disrupting society; in the late stage, patients will lose the ability to speak, have movement disorders, tremors, convulsions, and cannot take care of themselves, and need comprehensive care from their family members.

2. Osteomalacia

Excessive intake of aluminum will be deposited in the bones, leading to osteomalacia, symptoms such as bone pain, easy fractures, muscle pain and muscle weakness.

3. Anemia

Too much aluminum can cause microcytic hypochromic anemia and reticulocyte count anemia.

In order to prevent the harm of aluminum cookware to human health, cast aluminum pots can only be used to steam food or store dry food. Aluminum pots can be used to hold water or steam food. High-pressure alloy aluminum pots or stainless steel pots can be used to cook rice or porridge.