S P Nations, P J Boyer, L A Love, M F Burritt, J A Butz, G I Wolfe, L S Hynan, J Reisch, J R Trivedi
BACKGROUND: Chronic, excess zinc intake can result in copper deficiency and profound neurologic disease. However, when hyperzincemia is identified, the source often remains elusive. We identified four patients, one previously reported, with various neurologic abnormalities in the setting of hypocupremia and hyperzincemia. Each of these patients wore dentures and used very large amounts of denture cream chronically. OBJECTIVE: To determine zinc concentration in the denture creams used by the patients as a possible source of excess zinc ingestion...
August 26, 2008: Neurology