Max Daunderer

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Max Daunderer (born September 13, 1943 in Landshut ; † June 7, 2013 ) was a German internist , clinical toxicologist , environmental doctor and author .

Life

Daunderer came from an old family of doctors in Munich . He completed his medical studies in Munich (doctoral thesis 1969: Carcinoma in situ as a preliminary stage of collum carcinoma from the perspective of world literature ). In 1974 he opened the first intensive care unit for poisoning and just a year later published a poison dictionary in paperback form for clinicians. Together with the chemist Lutz Roth, he published a chemical encyclopedia for first aid in acute poisoning. Daunderer was the chief emergency toxicologist in the dioxin accident in Seveso (Italy) in 1976. In 1984 he treated several thousand poisoned people after the disaster in Bhopal , in which methyl isocyanate was released . 1985 habilitation he did as a clinical toxicologist at the Technical University of Munich with the work of clinical experience with the antidote 4-DMAP, a methemoglobin in the treatment of poisoning with hydrocyanic acid and its salts .

In his engagement against poisons of all kinds ( e.g. against the use of pesticides and wood preservatives because of their biocidal active ingredients) he was particularly noticeable for his fight against amalgam fillings due to exposure to mercury vapors; Since 1989, he has been using chewing gum-activated saliva tests and a DMPS test to detect the absorption of mercury from amalgam tooth fillings into the human organism. Daunderer appeared several times on television in the controversy over the subject in the late 1980s.

Max Daunderer lived in Grünwald near Munich. He was the father of three sons and one daughter.

reception

While Daunderer's earlier publications were accepted in specialist journals (up to around 1992) and some of his books were considered standard works of toxicology , his later activity, which focused on the fight against environmental toxins and amalgam fillings , was that of an outsider with little support from the specialist public. About the atlas of poisonous foci (with magnetic resonance and x-ray images which, according to Daunderer, are supposed to show poison deposits), Thomas Zilker reviewed in Deutsches Ärzteblatt that “this predominantly radiological atlas was written by an author who obviously does not have sufficient knowledge of neuroradiology, neuropathology and in the interpretation of magnetic resonance images of the brain ”. It is "impossible to refute the nonsense contained in the book in detail, since another book with twice the length would have to be written". The Berlin toxicologist Axel Hahn came to a similar judgment in the Federal Health Gazette .

According to the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices , the chewing gum tests used by Daunderer are unsuitable for diagnostic purposes. Chewing gum tests only remove alloy particles that are hardly resorbable . DMPS , which he used to diagnose and treat the postulated chronic mercury poisoning caused by amalgam fillings, is only indicated for the short-term therapy of acute mercury poisoning . Gerhard Lehnert et al. wrote with reference to Daunderer 1996: "Even individual doctors and self-appointed experts, with incorrect interpretations of findings and in some cases not even officially approved therapeutic measures [...] contribute to further anxiety and fixation on a general pathogenic effect of certain substances."

The association “Ecological Medical Association - German Section of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)” praised him in an obituary as a champion of environmental medicine and his “relentless patience in the fight against environmental toxins of all kinds”: “He was not afraid of horse and rider to call."

Works (selection)

(The poison list , handbook of environmental toxins , drug handbook , handbook of amalgam poisoning , poisonous plants , clinical toxicology , atlas of poison sources and clinical toxicology in dentistry have been published as loose-leaf works in a uniform design under the name Toxicological Encyclopedia by ecomed, Landsberg am Lech , and others like Wood poisons , living space poisons , among others in the series Compendium of Clinical Toxicology . The series were discontinued with the exception of the " Poison List " in 2006.)

  • Poisonous plants - plant poisons. Occurrence, effect, therapy, allergic and phototoxic reactions; new: with a special section on poisonous animals. with Lutz Roth and Kurt Kormann, 6th edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86820-009-6 .
  • Clinical toxicology. Poison information, poison detection, poisoning therapy. 14 volumes, 183 supplements. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1995 to December 2006, ISBN 3-609-70000-9 .
  • Drug manual. For clinic and practice, diagnosis, therapy, evidence, prophylaxis, law, drug profiles. 3 vols., 37 supplementary deliveries. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1990-2006, ISBN 3-609-71101-9 .
  • Handbook of environmental toxins. Clinical environmental toxicology for practice. 7 volumes, 86 supplementary deliveries. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1990-2006, ISBN 3-609-71120-5 .
  • Poisons in everyday life. Where they come from, how they work, how you protect yourself against them. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-42095-8 (critical review on Deutschlandfunk: dradio.de ).
  • First aid in chemical accidents. 7th, expanded and updated edition. Co-authors: Lutz Roth, Gabriele Rupp, ecomed Sicherheit, Landsberg am Lech 2004, ISBN 3-609-64447-8 .
  • Amalgam. 6th, completely revised edition. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-63496-0 , special print from the manual of amalgam poisoning .
  • Handbook of amalgam poisoning. Diagnostics, therapy, law. 3 volumes, 15 supplementary deliveries. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1992–1999, ISBN 3-609-71750-5 .
  • Atlas of the Poisonous Herd. X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1998, ISBN 3-609-64050-2 .
  • Passive smoking. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1997, ISBN 3-609-51040-4 .
  • Pesticide poisoning. Diagnostics and therapy. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1997, ISBN 3-609-51260-1 .
  • Housing toxins, diagnostics, therapy. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1996, ISBN 3-609-62820-0 .
  • Wood poisons. Diagnostics therapy law. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1995, ISBN 3-609-64100-2 .
  • Clinical toxicology in dentistry. 1 volume, 3 supplementary deliveries. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1995, ISBN 3-609-70311-3 .
  • Lexicon of plant and animal poisons. Nikol, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-933203-41-4 .
  • Drugs. Diagnostics, therapy. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1991, ISBN 3-609-63750-1 .
  • Poison list. Toxic, carcinogenic, harmful and irritating substances. 5 volumes, 109 supplements. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1976, ISBN 3-609-73120-6 .
  • Acute intoxication. General practitioner and clinical therapy. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-541-06371-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 11, 2013, No. 132, p. 22.
  2. ↑ M. Daunderer: Acute intoxications. General practitioner and clinical therapy. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich-Berlin-Vienna 1974.
  3. ↑ Lutz Roth, Max Daunderer: Poison List. 5 volumes, 116 supplements. ISBN 3-609-73120-6 .
  4. ↑ a b A. Builder: HotDoc. In: Das Magazin No. 7 2007, pp. 26–29.
  5. ↑ Max Daunderer: Bhopal - eyewitness report. In: E. Ungeheuer (Ed.): Disaster Medicine. Problems of the mass attack of sick and injured people. Cologne 1986, ISBN 978-3-7691-0122-5 , pp. 109-111.
  6. ↑ JGD Birkmayer, Max Daunderer, E. Reschendorfer: Mercury deposits in the organism correlate with the number of amalgam fillings. In: German Journal for Biological Dentistry 6/1990 ISSN  0178-7276
  7. ↑ H.-W. Schiwara, M. Daunderer, H. Kirchherr et al .: Determination of copper, mercury, methyl mercury, tin, methyl tin and silver in body material of amalgam carriers. In: Klinisches Labor 38/1992, pp. 391-403. ISSN  0941-2131
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / video.google.com
  9. ↑ Thomas Zilker: Max Daunderer: Atlas of the poison herd X-ray and magnetic resonance tomography. Deutsches Ärzteblatt , October 24, 1997, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ A. Hahn, G. Milde, H. Michalak: Bücherumschau . In: Federal Health Gazette . tape 40 , no. 12 , December 1, 1997, ISSN  0007-5914 , p. 503-504 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03042938 .
  11. ↑ Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices: Amalgams in Dental Therapy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 286 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfarm.de
  12. ↑ S1 guideline environmental medicine guideline: Mercury of the German Society for Occupational Medicine and Environmental Medicine e. V. (DGAUM). In: AWMF online (as of 08/2005)
  13. ↑ Specialist information on Dimaval, Heyl GmbH, status 9/2008.
  14. ↑ Gerhard Lehnert, Renate Wrbitzky, Hans Drexler, Stephan Letzel, Walter Graef: Environmental Medicine - a positioning . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 93 , no. 39 . Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag , September 27, 1996, p. A-2456 / B-2097 / C-1965 .
  15. ^ Obituary by Max Daunderer. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Daunderer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and environmental doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2013