It is important to talk about this issue as it is a major concern when we take a substance.

Every health professional knows that toxicity is a matter of quantity, as they say: the dose makes the poison. To give an example vinegar (which is composed of acetic acid), acetic acid itself is toxic if it is not well diluted and then the dose could be fatal. Seems strange, doesn’t it? In reality, we consume many things that could be considered poisons if we do not control the doses properly. In the annexes I will leave the scientific data in case you want to consult them, now we will make a summary:

1. Chlorine dioxide does not accumulate in the body as a toxin unlike other substances, it is consumed as soon as it reacts with pathogens.
2. In 100 years of use only 5 cases of documented poisoning are known, and all of them survived having been exposed to doses hundreds of times higher than those mentioned in this course. Moreover, three of these poisonings were failed suicide
   attempts, so it is not useful for this purpose.
3. If we breathe air containing a large amount of chlorine dioxide in the form of gas, we will experience irritation of the nose, throat and possibly the lungs, which can lead to breathing difficulties.
4. If too concentrated, it can cause eye irritation, which is fully reversible.
5. With the data recovered from the last 100 years of use we can conclude that chlorine dioxide is not carcinogenic, i.e. it does not cause cancer. Nor is there any toxicity in terms of reproduction, so there is no genetic damage.
6. According to scientific literature there are no effects on the endocrine system, the immune system, the lymphatic system or the neurological system by ingestion of chlorine dioxide.
7. The only way chlorine dioxide could be considered toxic is by inhalation, and like any substance that is not air, we should avoid inhaling it in large quantities as it occupies the alveolar space, where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes
   place in our lungs.

With all these data we can conclude by making it clear that chlorine dioxide, when properly used, IS NOT POISONOUS.