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> Avoid ...waterproof clothing that uses PFAS Are they breathing in rain-proof coating? Are they rubbing it on their hands and ingesting it? Is it in the house
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
> Avoid ...waterproof clothing that uses PFAS
Are they breathing in rain-proof coating? Are they rubbing it on their hands and ingesting it? Is it in the household air and it makes no difference to not wear it if someone in the household else wears it?
The mechanism is not made very clear.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoWiki says household dust is indeed one of the sources...
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThe stuff gets brittle over time. Had a windjacket for bicycling where this happened after about a year of usage. Then, one day coming home, out of the rain, pulling it off I wondered what all those tiny white flakes on my shirt were? Didn't even realise it until I discovered it was that white inner lining :-)
- driverdan 5y agoAll of the above. The coating wears off over time. It can be absorbed through the skin or breathed in as dust.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoIs there, any info on the magnitude of these effects? As in wearing a North Face jacket versus eating from a pizza box every couple of months?
- driverdan 5y agoFrom what I've seen there isn't enough research to know for certain. There is correlation with the issues mentioned in the article but I don't think any research has confirmed the pathway for negative effects or the doses necessary to cause them.