People with IBD have more microplastics in their feces, study says (Possible cause?)

Medical Xpress / American Chemical Society / Environmental Science & Technology ^ | Dec. 22, 2021 | Faming Zhang, Yan Zhang, et al

[ConservativeMind]

It would seem IBD patients attract 50% more fecal microplastics than everyone else.

Perhaps minimizing them in your home could help with symptoms.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Ken H]

"Microplastics"

[Deaf Smith]

5mm?

Perhaps they meant 5nm?

[Scrambler Bob]

in paragraph 3:

” . . .IBD feces had more small (less than 50 μm) particles.”

[Viking2002]

Yeah, I think I’d notice if I had 5 millimeter plastic particles in my septic deposits. Bleeding ‘roids would be a good indicator.

[Blurb2350]

Coincidentally, Chinese biochemists researching IBD have significantly higher amounts of fecal matter under their fingernails.

[PGR88]

[Yo-Yo]

Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length –– are everywhere,

Do they know how huge a 5mm piece of plastic is?

[MNDude]

There is a place in the ocean double the size of Texas that is filled with all the plastic bottles tossed in the ocean.90% of this comes from Africa and Asia.

These break down into tiny particles and the fish eat it. Then humans eat the fish.

[lee martell]

Maybe that is the beginning of an explanation for Morgellons
Disease; Skin lesions that appear to have tiny bits of string and fiber coming out of them. Most sufferers are seen as hypochondriacs, afflicted with fibromyalgia or parasites.

[fireman15]

The team obtained fecal samples from 50 healthy people and 52 people with IBD from different geographic regions of China.

I am not sure that a study from China has any relevance to people suffering from similar conditions in this country. It might be that micro-plastics are an issue in the Chinese diet but it may or may not be here.

[bakeneko]

And here I thought this article was about Invester’s Business Daily.

[nickcarraway]

I’m not surprised. People don’t realize how much plastic is in what they eat.

[\/\/ayne]

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ believes they have the answer.

[fireman15]

Do they know how huge a 5mm piece of plastic is?

I thought that it was typo. There is nothing micro about a 1/4” long piece of plastic. Can you really eat a rice sized piece of hard plastic without noticing? The Chinese might not be getting good chew training when they are kids.

[DeFault User]

5 mm in length

Another failure of the Carter Administration. Americans don't understand the metric system. What was that telescope lens failure confusing meters with yards or some such?

[Karl Spooner]

I’m not surprised. People don’t realize how much plastic is in what they eat.

Dr. Berg said people eat a credit card's worth every week.

https://youtu.be/2teHeyQjl04

[nickcarraway]

The metric system is for people who don’t believe in evolution.

[telescope115]

+1 on that. I know our diet in this country isn’t the greatest, but I’m willing to bet the Chinese people eat worse than we do.
By the way, I have Ulcerative Colitis, since 1994, and both my daughters, while colitis free, have exhibited traits of autoimmune diseases, just like myself.
It’s genetics, I think.