We like cleanliness, but it makes us sick at the same time. It seems like a total contradiction, but it’s not, if we think about all the products we use when we clean the house. Parquet solution, window cleaner, degreaser – there is a product for everything. And each is, in fact, a toxic mixture of substances. The latest studies have shown that women are more affected. Many types of cancer can be related to these compounds.
By Andreea Petrescu on 27.09.2023, 17:32
The research focused on the so-called “eternal chemicals” that are found in almost everything that surrounds us. They remain in the water, in the soil, and do not decompose even in the human body. “In the fabric that’s on the couch where we sit watching TV and we sit a lot and we sweat on it. We buy a pair of sunglasses, those sunglasses or eyeglasses pads might also contain bisphenol and all kinds of moreover, substances that can make us extremely sick, being very close to the brain”, declared Sorin Mierlă, Infocons.
People say that it is almost impossible to avoid these substances
Women exposed to more chemicals appear to face higher risks of developing ovarian cancer and melanoma. “First of all, it affects our endocrine system, i.e. the secretion of hormones, their functioning. They influence the metabolism by increasing cholesterol and they influence the development of the fetus, they can give rise to some cancers. Kidney cancer is most often linked, but also breast cancer, through system. Because the kidneys are the ones that filter the blood and these substances stay there”, said Dragoş Median, oncologist.
People say that it is almost impossible to avoid these substances. “Probably if I studied more, I would know what to do, at least in my right. Or the institutions should be able to stop allowing these substances,” says a woman. “I don’t think so, we have no way to avoid something like this. They are all harmful,” says another. Specialists recommend us to be careful at least when dosing the cleaning products. The maximum quantity that we can use is indicated on each leaflet.
Observatory Events The substances that we use daily and that can make us sick with cancer. Women are the most exposed: “We have no way to avoid something like this”
2023-09-27 14:31:00
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