Posted on 08/14/2012 11:46:03 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Introduced in the 1970s, the compound triclosan has become an increasingly popular ingredient in many antibacterial soaps and other personal-care items, such as deodorants and mouthwashes. However, as the chemical’s popularity continues to grow, a recent report has raised concerns about some frightening risks that triclosan could pose to public health.
A new study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" has revealed that exposure to triclosan is linked with muscle function impairments in humans and mice, as well as slowing the swimming of fish. By reducing contractions in both cardiac and skeletal muscles, the chemical has the potential to contribute to heart disease and heart failure.
(Added bold emphasis is mine...)
The researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado decided to examine the possible effects of triclosan due to recent literature raising health concerns about the chemical, as well as substantial increases in its production.
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What did your garbage ever do to deserve that?
I remember it from Grandma’s Home, back in the 50s. She lived to 103, so maybe there’s something to it! LOL.
Fact: the most common casually communicable illnesses (like the flu) are viruses. Second fact: AB soap does nothing to prevent the spread of viruses. NOTHING! Only washing under warm, continuous water removes viruses from your hands.
AB soaps and lotions work by dehydrating the cells of bacteria (that's why they have such a high concentration of alcohol in them). Viruses don't have cell walls... and thus are not affected by AB soaps.
The only time you are likely to come in contact with significant amounts of bacterial are when you handle raw meat or fecal matter. So yes, if you have just scooped raw hamburger out of a pile of dog poop, squirt the AB soap on before you serve communion. Otherwise, just wash your hands, you scientifically illiterate sheep...
This sounds an awful lot like one of those “dose makes the poison” issues. Modern chemical tests are wondrous. They can sniff out a few molecules in a billion. Is normal biology equally sensitive to such traces of pollutants? Whether you hold that modern life forms were created in their present state or whether you hold they had been evolved into it, such sensitivity sounds implausible.
*Note to previous post*
By high alcohol content, I was referring to the AB lotions (I realized I wasn’t clear the way I said it). Soaps tend to use the aforementioned chemical (that this article is about) to dehydrate the bacterial cells. And it still doesn’t kill viruses...
Crap, I've been using Old Spice® for 40yrs! I'm a goner. I'll have to go back to my old standbys, Brut® or Aramis®...
"FRANCE NOT AFFECTED."
Well put! Mine have been very healthy and protective over the past 62yrs, but this triclosan can do some damage, apparently.
It’s in the same bag with the Polonium-210 Salad Dressing.
Dehydrating, yes and no. It is a common mechanism shared by antibiotics to keep bacteria from synthesizing strong cell walls as they multiply. Weak cell walls then rupture, spilling the cell contents out, resulting in the death of the bacteria.
Yours is a more complete explanation than I gave. Mine was shortened for brevity... and because my general point was that bacteria (outside of cooking and composting) is not a big enough threat to use various specialized products continuously... anti-bacterial soaps and lotions won’t prevent a single case of cold or flu... but most people don’t know that...
W.O.W. That’s quite a database, b! I got lost for 15mins in all of the layers of layers of layers of stuff. Heh.
Didn’t we have a discourse over the virtues of homemade soaps, once?
Thanks; it’s now on my shopping list to see if any stores around here, have it.
pHisoHex. That was the real stuff. They used to dip us kids in it. When the stopped using it, there was a staphylococcus outbreak. It really worked.
The only time I’ve ever used it is after changing the cat litter boxes. For simple hand-washing, I use Irish Spring Bar Soap. My immune system and antibodies are 62yrs old and still exceptionally strong.
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