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Even Band-Aids cause cancer now
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:03 pm
Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in BAND-AIDS where they can get directly into blood through open wounds, report warns
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65 percent of bandages contained fluorine, a necessary component of PFAS
PFAS, or forever chemicals, are in cookware, firefighting foam, and carpeting
READ MORE: 'Forever chemicals' raise risk of thyroid cancer by 56 PERCENT
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Bandages from some of the most well-reputed brands, including Band-Aid and Curad, contain dangerous levels of forever chemicals, a shock report shows.
Testing by a leading watchdog found the chemical fluorine in over two dozen different bandages that can be found in millions of medicine cabinets across the country.
PFAS chemicals are sometimes used to make adhesives, and investigators believe they are products of the normal manufacturing process. Fluorine, which is also used to make rocket fuel, can lead to skin burns and eye damage, but it is most dangerous when inhaled.
Dr Linda Birnbaum, a toxicologist and former head of the National Toxicology Program who co-led the lab testing, said the fact that risky chemicals come in direct contact with open wounds was 'troubling'.
PFAS chemicals can easily enter the bloodstream after a person drinks water or eats food laced with them. Once in the bloodstream, PFAS can lodge themselves within healthy tissue where it can begin to damage the immune system, the liver, the kidneys, and other organs.
Environmental health watchdogs had 40 bandages from 18 different brands tested for fluorine, and detectable levels were found in 26 of them.
Consumer watchdog blog Mamavation and Environmental Health News used an EPA-certified lab to look for PFAS chemicals in the absorbent pads and adhesive flaps of bandages sold at major retailers, including CVS, Walmart, Rite Aid, Target, and Amazon.
The bandages that contain high levels of fluorine above 100 parts per million include brands Band-Aid, Care Science, Curad, CVS Health, Equate, First Honey, Rite Aid brand, Solimo (Amazon brand), and Up & Up, Target’s brand.
Dr Birnbaum said: ‘Because bandages are placed upon open wounds, it's troubling to learn that they may be also exposing children and adults to PFAS.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:04 pm to stout
These MFers are trying to kill us all
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:05 pm to stout
At least they’re not racist banaids
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:07 pm to stout
When you talk about bandaids
And all you get is that fluorine stare
And all you get is that fluorine stare
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:08 pm to stout
What doesn’t cause cancer now?
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:09 pm to el Gaucho
Hope your cousin wasn’t using them for his fibromyalgia
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:11 pm to boosiebadazz
You laugh but ever since the fda started crucifying doctors for prescribing OxyContin, there’s hardly anything for the pain that he can smoke
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:14 pm to el Gaucho
Sad the only thing that can get him relief is climbing up in the deer stand
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:16 pm to boosiebadazz
Welding that perfect seam is priceless.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:18 pm to stout
I hate to tell you guys, but PFAS are literally in everything.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:21 pm to stout
I'm not trying to be a sky is falling alarmist or anything, but PFAS is becoming a huge issue for us as it bioaccumulates in nature. And it's been used in a lot of places for a long time. When the effects of it are fully learned I think we're going to finally have a cause of all these early cancer cases popping up in our population.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:24 pm to boosiebadazz
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Sad the only thing that can get him relief is climbing up in the deer stand
The saddest part is that in the state of Louisiana the disability fraud investigators don’t even have to wear hunter’s orange during deer season.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:25 pm to stout
I'm safe. I don't use bandaids, I just rub some dirt on it and carry on, as all real baws should.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 7:44 pm to LazloHollyfeld
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At least they’re not racist banaids
Well, not yet. Give it time.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:17 pm to stout
What’s next? Bactine? And the orange shite that stung like a MFer? That was my childhood. I’m so screwed.
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:20 pm to stout
Did anybody mention the floride added to drinking water to strengthen the teeth of growing children?
Posted on 4/3/24 at 8:48 pm to DR93Berlin
"Monkey blood"...look that up!
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