Review Article Cadmium Toxicity and Treatment

Copyright © 2013 Robin A. Bernhoft. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cadmium is a heavy metal of considerable toxicity with destructive impact on most organ systems. It is widely distributed in humans, the chief sources of contamination being cigarette smoke, welding, and contaminated food and beverages. Toxic impacts are discussed and appear to be proportional to body burden of cadmium.Detoxification of cadmiumwith EDTAand other chelators is possible and has been shown to be therapeutically beneficial in humans and animals when done using established protocols. 1