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If only my immune system would attack all the microplastics in my blood.
by oigursh 3y ago
If only my immune system would attack all the microplastics in my blood.
- ars 3y agoThat would be horrible for your health. Massive inflammation and hormonal issues. Best is if your body ignores the plastic, that would mean the plastic doesn't do anything to you.
- throwaway290 3y agoBut it's not clear whether ignoring is possible or happens now...
- 0x073 3y agoThen you would be permanent sick.
- amelius 3y agoSome people consider frequent blood donations as a way to reduce the amount of foreign particles in their blood.
- throwaway290 3y agoI read on HN once it helps with some PFOS or PFAS in blood...
- extasia 3y agoThat study was specifically on Australian firemen IIRC. Firemen are exposed to more of those particular chemicals because of their widespread use in flame retardant sprays.
- HealthNeed 3y agoAlso donating plasma was a better option than whole blood.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThat sounds like an excellent way to get people to give blood
- samwillis 3y agoOr just good old fashioned blood letting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
- dangwhy 3y agoi know steroid abusers in my gym swear by this.
- collegeburner 3y agothats to reduce dangerously high blood pressure and levels of red blood cells that increase clotting risk
- amelius 3y agoWait, and this blood gets donated?
- muffinman26 3y agoAs someone on similar medication for health reasons (severe testosterone deficiency), I can provide some more specific information that might be helpful. The issue with testosterone is that it's linked to an increase in hematocrit (level of red blood cells in blood). There's a band of hematocrit levels that's healthy for donation. If the hematocrit level is too high, it's potentially dangerous to the recipient, but too low a level of hematocrit makes the donation dangerous to the donor. As a result, hematocrit level testing is one of the few tests that they do before every single donation. These chemicals aren't dangerous, they're present in all humans. No blood clotting is hemophilia, which is also a dangerous condition. Regular blood donation can prevent build-up, and the decrease in hematocrit after blood donation is one of the reasons for the required interval between donations.
- kzrdude 3y agoMany of the advanced medicines for autoimmune deceases disqualify you from giving blood
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- DelightOne 3y agoThe body detecting and removing them would be cooler. I wonder whether any mutation anywhere exists that does that.
- missingdays 3y agoYour immune system is your part of the body
- thegabriele 3y agoYou should watch the latest "Crimes of the future" from Cronenberg (viewer discretion is very advised.)
- saiya-jin 3y agoI don' think you understand a lot of what you write. Microplastics are largely inert and most of them are much much bigger than your immunity cells. If they could somehow 'attack' it, they wouldn't be able to consume it (and if they could nothing would change, just like ink in tattoos remains in cca same place even after immune cells consume it). What would happen during 'attack' is rather a clot forming, not very good ie in your bloodstream. Kind of pearls forming randomly in your body, but the seed would be a piece of plastic instead of a grain of sand, and it would be just your dead immunity cells around it. The chance of getting rid of it gets much smaller. Now why would you want something like that.
- shocks 3y agoI think it was a joke.
- lukeasch21 3y agoPerhaps another casualty of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law ?