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Upper Hutt Fluoridation Information

What was the outcome of the 2015 Long Term Plan on the fluoridation issue?

TBC

What parts of Upper Hutt are fluoridated?

What fluoride chemicals are used to fluoridate Upper Hutt’s water supply?

Orica supplies Hydrofluorosilicic Acid H₂SiF₆ to Council to fluoridate.

What level is Upper Hutt fluoridated at?

To be advised.

Where is the waste water for Upper Hutt discharged?

To be advised.

Is there a Resource consent for the discharge of fluoridation chemicals into the TBC?

To be advised.

Can you provide the section of the consent that permits?

To be advised.

Is there a Resource Consent held by Upper Hutt Council to add Hydrofluorosilicic Acid to the Upper Hutt’s water supplies?

To be advised.

How much per annum is spent on Hydrofluorosilicic acid?

To be advised.

How much per annum is spent on implementing water fluoridation?

To be advised.

How much per annum is spent on testing the levels of water fluoridation?

To be advised.

How much does it cost per Tonne of Hydrofluorosilicic Acid?

To be advised.

How many Tonne of Hydrofluorosilicic Acid is added into Upper Hutt’s shared environment?

To be advised.

How frequent is the levels of fluoride in the water tested?

To be advised.

Who performs the testing?

To be advised.

When did fluoridation begin in Upper Hutt and has there been any public consultation since beginning?

Fluoridation started in 1965.

Campaign Upper Hutt

June 21, 2012

According to a small article on page 22 of the Upper Hutt Leader, councillors this year decided to agree with Regional Public Health’s endorsement of fluoridation.

June 15, 2011

Front page article in Upper Hutt Leader covering Upper Hutt City Council’s decision to lobby Greater Wellington Region Council to remove fluoride from the water supply.

Fluoride network pleased – Upper Hutt Leader, June 16 2011

UHCC 2011/2012 Draft Annual Plan Submissions Hearing

The councillors and Mayor were all very polite and showed good interest. Watch this space!

April 6th, 2011

Dr Paul Connett attended workshop at Upper Hutt City Council.

March 30th, 2011

Feature article in Upper Hutt Leader covering Dr Paul Connett’s recent presentation at Orongomai Marae.

Academic trio add substance to fluoride debate – Upper Hutt Leader, March 30 2011

25th March 2011

Presentation by Dr Paul Connett at Orongomai Marae.

First I must say I don’t live in New Zealand, but in the UK.

Around 20 years ago my husband was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. At age 42, and self employed, he had no choice but to try and carry on through the dreadful pains, exhaustion, muscle spasms and headaches. At that time we were living in an area with fluoridated water. We subsequently moved to an area with natural spring water, where things seemed to get a little better, yet the frequent headaches continued.

Around 10 years ago, after we moved again, the headaches turned into daily migraines and ever increasing doses of otc painkillers did little to help. From there we began the consultant route, seeing both neurologist and headache specialists. MRI and CT scans showed boney spurs in the cervical neck, with spinal cord compression. Highly invasive surgery was discussed, but it was decided we should wait until loss of feeling in his arms and legs occurred. Really unpleasant drugs were prescribed in stepped increasing dosage but the side effects were so bad my husband just stopped taking them. They never helped the migraines at all.

Last Christmas, we realised we would not be getting any real help from doctors and my husband fell back on constantly rotating doses of ibuprofen with lysine, and paracetamol. Just after Christmas, on a whim, I bought some Alodent toothpaste, fluoride free. The next morning I asked the regular question on waking up : “how’s your head this morning? ” When he replied “I don’t have much of a headache actually” I was really puzzled. I started looking at what we’d done the previous day, what we’d eaten, what we hadn’t eaten or used, what pillows were on the bed. THE ONLY THING ABNORMAL TO US WAS THE NEW TOOTHPASTE!

On a research mission, which I had done many, many times over many years, I started reading everything about fluoride, good and bad, from every pathway my little laptop had ever known.

We started a diary, and slowly, day after day after day, the migraines became just little dull headaches, and after 3 weeks they had stopped altogether. We bought a reverse osmosis system to take out any naturally occurring fluoride in our non fluoridated water supply, and polished it off by filtering that water through a separate specal jug filter (takes water to zero ppm). We ditched our favourite strong tea, in favour of fresh ground coffee with the occasional cup of weak, white tea. We stopped buying calfornia wines (our favourite weekend treat), and grapes and raisins had to be organic or nothing. It’s been around 120 days since we went on a mission to rid fluoride from our daily lives. In that time frame, my husband would have suffered around 90 migraines, ten severe headaches and 20 dull, can’t quite think straight foggy headaches, always emanating from the base of his skull. Instead, he has had 6 very mild morning headaches not needing anything to help, 3 level 3 (out of 5) headaches needing medication, and 110 mornings without any headache whatsoever. I have asked the question over and over again, how could we not have known???

I have never suffered headaches, obviously only a few suffer from the extreme sensitivity my husband experiences with fluoride, just as only a few will suffer greatly from strawberries, peanuts, shellfish etc. One person’s meat is seriously another person’s poison. You can choose to avoid buying any of those things but water that comes through your tap, how do you avoid that? We are lucky enough to have the ability to install a complex water filtration system. Just the other day we were out visiting for the day and I thought, a few cups of tea with unfiltered water wouldn’t hurt that much. Oh my goodness, was I wrong! My husband didn’t even know he wasn’t drinking tea made with bottled or filtered water, he just developed a thumping headache as we were setting off for home.

He is currently taking antioxidants, in the hope that over time, the fluoride deposits within his body will be greatly reduced.

Jane Dowse

Years and Years of Headaches gone