What effect does excessive intake of borax have on human body?

Borax, also known as sodium tetraborate, is a mineral, which is widely used in household cleaning products, especially detergents and cleaning agents. Although borax is recognized as a relatively safe substance, eating too much will still affect your health, so you must be careful when using it. What effect can borax have on your body if you eat too much? Let's have a look.

1. What effect will excessive intake of borax have on human body?

Usually a small amount of borax intake is beneficial to human body, which can prevent osteoporosis and promote calcium metabolism in human body. However, if the borax content is too much, it will have a certain impact on the human body, such as accumulation in organs, leading to indigestion, loss of appetite, and even diarrhea, vomiting, circulatory disorders, coma and other symptoms in severe cases. So be careful not to take too much borax.

2. Where is borax commonly used?

1, borax is widely used in daily life, mainly used in glass and enamel industries. When applied to glass, it can enhance the ultraviolet transmittance, thus improving the transparency and heat resistance of glass. Borax applied to enamel products can make it difficult to fall off and make enamel products more shiny. In addition, it will also be used in special optical glass, non-ferrous metal welding agent, jewelry adhesive, gold refining, cosmetics and so on.

2. In medicine, borax is usually used to disinfect skin and mucosa, and also used to treat pulpitis, tinea pedis, acne, external auditory canal, eczema and epilepsy. In addition, borax is also suitable for feed additives, besides some herbicides, it can also be used to inactivate weeds in non-agricultural areas. Borax can be used alone and mixed with sodium chlorate to reduce the flammability of sodium chlorate. It is usually an industrial boron mine in some factories.