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Plastics Used in Face Masks Have Been Found in Patients’ Lungs
dailyexpose.uk ^ | APRIL 25, 2022 | RHODA WILSON

Posted on 04/25/2022 1:56:00 PM PDT by ransomnote

Microplastic fibres were found deep in the lower lungs of living human beings in almost every person sampled in a recent study by scientists at Hull York Medical School, UK.

The study, Detection of microplastics in human lung tissue using μFTIR spectroscopy’, published on 29 March 2022 discovered microplastic particles – present in many Covid masks – in the lung tissue of 11 out of 13 patients undergoing surgery.

Polypropylene (“PP”) and polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) were the most prevalent substances present in the lungs.

 

Some of the microscopic plastic fragments and fibres discovered – in patients undergoing surgery whose lung tissue they sampled – were two millimetres long.

The research used samples of healthy lung tissue from next to the lung region targeted for surgery. It analysed particles as small as 0.003mm in size and used spectroscopy to identify plastic types.  It also used control samples to account for the level of background contamination.

The plastic dust and microscopic debris comprise the same plastics used to manufacture the ubiquitous surgical masks worn by hundreds of millions of people around the world as mandated by governments to halt the Covid “pandemic.”

The material most commonly used to make these masks is PP.  PP fabric is made from a “thermoplastic” polymer, meaning that it’s easy to work with and shape at high temperatures.

Blue surgical masks can also be made of polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyethylene, or polyester, all of which are types of fabrics derived from thermoplastic polymers.

Disposable blue masks are to be found littering almost every city street in the developed world after, in some places, two years of Covid mandates ruled that masks should be worn in most indoor environments much of the time. Healthy adults, children, the immunocompromised, and the elderly have all been subject to mask mandates.

Microplastics were detected in human blood in March 2022, showing the particles can travel around the human body and may become embedded in organs. The impact on health is still to be determined.

“Our study is the first indication that we have polymer particles in our blood – ​it’s a breakthrough result,” said Prof Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.  “We also know in general that babies and young children are more vulnerable to chemical and particle exposure,” he said. “That worries me a lot.”

A further study published on 5 April found specific types of harm – cell death, allergic response, and damage to cell walls – were caused by the levels of microplastics that people ingest.  The researchers are concerned because microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory at the levels known to be eaten by people via their food.


Mask under a microscope. Image courtesy E.P. Vicenzi/Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and NIST

The study, ‘Detection of microplastics in human lung tissue using μFTIR spectroscopy’, which found microplastics in patients’ lungs stated:

“Airborne microplastics (“MPs”) have been sampled globally, and their concentration is known to increase in areas of high human population and activity, especially indoors. Respiratory symptoms and disease following exposure to occupational levels of MPs within industry settings have also been reported.

“In total, 39 MPs were identified within 11 of the 13 lung tissue samples… These results support inhalation as a route of exposure for environmental MPs, and this characterisation of types and levels can now inform realistic conditions for laboratory exposure experiments, with the aim of determining health impacts.”

“We did not expect to find the highest number of particles in the lower regions of the lungs, or particles of the sizes we found,” said Laura Sadofsky, a senior author of the study. “It is surprising as the airways are smaller in the lower parts of the lungs and we would have expected particles of these sizes to be filtered out or trapped before getting this deep.”

“This data provides an important advance in the field of air pollution, microplastics, and human health,” she said.

An older study published in 2020   looked into the risks associated with mask-wearing and the inhalation of microplastics. The study concluded:

  • Wearing masks poses microplastic inhalation risk, reusing masks increases the risk
  • Wearing N95 masks poses lowest microplastic inhalation risks in the long term
  • Wearing masks, except for N95, poses higher stripe type microplastic inhalation risk
  • Wearing masks poses considerably lower spherical-type microplastic inhalation risk
  • Wearing masks leads to lower gross microplastic inhalation risk in the long term

“Surgical, cotton, fashion, and activated carbon masks wearing pose higher fibre-like microplastic inhalation risk, while all masks generally reduced exposure when used under their supposed time (<4 h),” the study said.

Read more: ‘Study finds plastics found in masks present in patients’ lungs’, Western Standard Online, 17 April 2022

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Plastics Used in Face Masks Have Been Found in Patients’ Lungs


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To: antidemoncrat; mabarker1

Everyone who still has to wear these absurd things (docs offices, etc.) should take this article in to their appointments, with them.


21 posted on 04/25/2022 2:38:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: ransomnote

My post wasn’t a defense of masks. That’s a separate topic. There are are pros and cons to everything.


22 posted on 04/25/2022 3:08:13 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

“My post wasn’t a defense of masks. That’s a separate topic.”

Welcome to the knee-jerk FR reply.


23 posted on 04/25/2022 3:10:07 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ransomnote; libh8er

Masks don’t protect the wearer so much as they protect *others* from the wearer. For ex, no surgeon would be allowed to perform in the operating room without being masked up or they would cause infection in the patient. On the other hand masks of poor quality or not using them properly can cause respiratory infections in the wearer.


24 posted on 04/25/2022 3:16:32 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: ransomnote

And I wonder how much like asbestosis the new *mask lung diseae* is going to be.

Another reason to not wear one and a totally believable one at that.


25 posted on 04/25/2022 3:20:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ransomnote

When Fauci misinforms the public that cloth masks work, he risks the health of anyone who believes a cloth mask will protect them when caring for a spouse or relative with COVID!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has made a habit of amending its COVID-19 guidelines, most recently cutting the length of its recommended quarantine time for infected patients from 10 days to five. Those who are infected are now instructed to isolate for just five days, followed by five days of wearing a mask around other people.

Quick! Buy some more masks from India and stay 10’ apart!

Masks being made in India’s filth:!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQi9yXkfUg


26 posted on 04/25/2022 3:24:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!bri)
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To: ransomnote

Imagine the impact on a developing 5 year old’s lungs. Bad enough on an adult, but very young children are particularly susceptible to contaminants like this as they have weaker immune systems and their cells are just multiplying like crazy

Pray for the children.


27 posted on 04/25/2022 4:15:30 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: ransomnote

No one and I mean no one has been wearing masks correctly since this started. Masks are utterly useless against viruses anyway and this is a known science fact (TRUST THE SCIENCE).

Except we haven’t trusting the science and the CDC has been pushing utter nonsense f=since this began. Going political to get rid of President Trump, seemed to be their only goal and they succeeded.

Wearing the mask under your nose, touching them a hundred times a day makes any use even worse than useless. Also, those with raspatory issues are being injured by having their breathing diminished for absolutely no reason other than total control.

Cheap, shoddy masks of low quality and breathing in them hours a day...what could go wrong?


28 posted on 04/25/2022 4:15:41 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35; Ezekiel
Paris. It's all about the fashion.


29 posted on 04/25/2022 4:24:27 PM PDT by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Grampa Dave

https://www.planetcustodian.com/over-50-scary-images-depicting-filth-of-varanasi-and-river-ganges-that-went-viral-in-china/8134/


30 posted on 04/25/2022 4:26:57 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35

This is exactly why the environmental movement needs to be exported and not forced on the clean people. China and yuk India are responsible for 95% of the issues. First world they are not. India is a dumpster fire in a homeless camp.


31 posted on 04/25/2022 4:34:22 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: ransomnote

Super ducking duper. Next?


32 posted on 04/25/2022 6:28:03 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: ransomnote

Not in my lungs.

Guaranteed.


33 posted on 04/25/2022 10:33:13 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ransomnote

I saw a store employee at Office Depot weeks after the mandate for masks were dropped wearing a face shield and a mask and rubber gloves. Most store employees not wearing any masks. I heard one with a face mask talking to someone on his cell phone and he was muffled so bad I doubt the other person understood him.


34 posted on 04/26/2022 10:25:56 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy gas)
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To: minnesota_bound

If people were told that plastic is now inside them from the masks these same people would not believe it and keep wearing a mask to protect themselves from a virus that is much much smaller then any plastic particle!


35 posted on 04/26/2022 10:30:20 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy gas)
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