Mother loses peripheral vision from apparent exposure to mercury in beauty creams.
| CNN Health | By Meera Senthilingam | February 2023 | Toxic levels in her home put family at risk, say experts A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using beauty creams containing high levels of the toxic chemical, according to a case report shared exclusively with CNN. Mercury has long been used in skin whitening products due to its ability to block the production of melanin, t