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Johnson & Johnson will stop selling talc-based baby powder globally
CBS News ^ | 8/12/22 | Khristopher J. Brooks

Posted on 08/14/2022 4:02:04 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff
I'm male so I don't know about the ovarian cancer aspect. But I'm a guitarist, and when my hands sweat I can't play right.

So I carry a container of baby powder in my gig bag. At first I used the talc-based powder, but it gummed up like clots and that was horrible. Then I tried using the cornstarch-based powder and it is great.

I also discovered as I got older that the cornstarch powder works better than the talc powder when my crotch gets sweaty during a gig and I want to dry it out.

So as far as I'm concerned the cornstarch is the way to go.

If that also happens to keep me from getting cancer, fine.

41 posted on 08/14/2022 8:29:13 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Delta 21

I learned from my dad to put it in your boots before you wear them. Cuts down on sweat, nad helps put them on or take them off...


42 posted on 08/14/2022 8:46:21 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: DallasBiff

Wasn’t the allegation that it wasn’t the talcum powder itself but other ingredients that supposedly got mixed in?


43 posted on 08/14/2022 9:18:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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I use the version of J&J baby powder now sold in stores, so it must now be safe if it’s being sold in U.S. stores. It’s great for dusting after a shower, as a previous poster said. It clears up a rash if redness starts in sweaty places like under a woman’s breast. It has a pleasant aroma.


44 posted on 08/14/2022 9:32:50 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America.)
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To: Ciexyz

Great, no more sweaty dude moobs. Lol.


45 posted on 08/14/2022 9:56:10 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: GingisK

Back in the late sixties all of us kids in the neighborhood would watch the city truck fog the trees with DDT to kill the mosquitoes. I guess the saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is true.


46 posted on 08/14/2022 10:51:18 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Thanks for the tip. Appreciate it.


47 posted on 08/14/2022 11:53:24 PM PDT by miele man
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To: bigdaddy45

Nah. Caving to lawyers. It’s like all the Camp Lejune fishing going on.

Burn pits from decades ago? Mesothelioma ads about the 50s?

Ruining a decades old brand because of lawyers and greed. What’s next? Now Coke?


48 posted on 08/15/2022 2:28:37 AM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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To: Ciexyz

Those rashes can be fungal. I have started getting them over the past two years

I believe mine are related to internal where something is amiss.

Perhaps overgrowth of yeast

So there are a number of things I try..including Nystatin powder being careful not to breathe it in

The best thing that seems to help is a red light from Mito ...of course I might be giving myself cancer.


49 posted on 08/15/2022 3:39:10 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: olivia3boys

In theory the omentum might stop your ovarian cancer from spreading to other organs for a period of time. In practice..you would have to catch it while it is still in that stop gap.

I suspect that rarely happens because it is most often not caught until it effects other organs

I advocate at risk patients getting periodic ultra sounds even if insurance doesn’t pay for it. It might help save your life


50 posted on 08/15/2022 3:48:14 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Also there is a test that might red flag you sooner if you are in menopause

Inhibin tests.

A bad inhibin test does not mean you have cancer but does mean you should now get to work to see what may be happening


51 posted on 08/15/2022 3:51:46 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Jamestown1630
Interesting abstract from 1994, and since cornstarch is hygroscopic, I buy it...

A new hazard of cornstarch, an absorbable dusting powder

... It was found that in contaminated wounds, cornstarch enhanced the growth of bacteria and elicited exaggerated inflammatory responses as measured by wound induration.

Considering where the cornstarch is going, not sure how good application of that is, especially if the baby has developed a diaper rash...

52 posted on 08/15/2022 4:00:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: DallasBiff

We never used it much. Found that as long as we kept the babies in dry diapers, they never got a rash. I’m thin so when I sweat, there’s no chafing.


53 posted on 08/15/2022 5:18:45 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: dznutz

I remember that too. It wouldn’t have been possible to go outdoors without that treatment.


54 posted on 08/15/2022 7:33:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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