Would it be wrong to ask a hospital to donate funds for cancer research?
Question by Lorena: Would it be wrong to ask a hospital to donate funds for cancer research?
I’m participating in Team In Training, where members raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and train for endurance events. I recently visited MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and I felt moved to help those patients.
I was wondering if it would be morally wrong to ask the hospital for a donation?
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Answer by catlover3
I’m not sure if anyone would consider it morally wrong, but the hospital’s funds go directly to the patients who are suffering from cancer, so I wouldn’t personally want to take money away from them. It’s possible the hospital may already donate to cancer research, or they may have a no donation policy to conserve their monetary resources for their own patients. You can always ask and see what happens!
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I already have Cirrhosis, & now have Lung Cancer! Would now be a good time to adopt Christianity over Atheism?
Question by IMA SLUTPUPPY 4 U!: I already have Cirrhosis, & now have Lung Cancer! Would now be a good time to adopt Christianity over Atheism?
That’s right, Folks! I’m already dying from the “End Stages” of terminal Cirrhosis of the Liver (2 much hard Drinkin’ & Druggin’ in my youth!), and now, a “routine X-Ray” Friday revealed I now have Lung Cancer from Smoking added to my “Dance Card”! Thus far, I have remained Atheist and refused to Recant, but seriously, I’m starting to wonder if God isn’t trying to tell me something:
Like, this time, my luck’s all used up, and I’m not going to be getting out of this one alive!
What do you think? Should I give God a try, and accept Jesus into what’s left of my life?
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Answer by Sirensong sunshine
I’d go for the lot if I were you – Zeus, Thor, Quezacoatl, Mithras… Sign up to all the religions just in case…
Sorry about your illnesses though
Here’s an interview with Christopher Hitchens, who is also dying of cancer, but doesn’t deem it necessary to resort to superstition
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hitchens-were-all-dying-with-me-its-accelerated-2050136.html
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Q&A: My dad has COPD and I am in the military & wondering what would be a good place to get stationed?
Question by : My dad has COPD and I am in the military & wondering what would be a good place to get stationed?
My dad is my dependent and am working on getting a Compassionate reassignment. We are stationed in Fort Richardson, Alaska but the cold weather and seasonal disorder is wearing him down! Where would be a better place to be located. Too hot isn’t good, and too cold isn’t much better! need a good army hospital too!
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Answer by usamedic420
Fort Gordon or Washington military district Walter Reed, ft Myer, Ft Mead Bethesda expensive area
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Have you herd of this, and would you be willing to help me?
Question by April H: Have you herd of this, and would you be willing to help me?
I was wondering if any one would be willing to help me get the word out about Adrenal Cortical Carcinomas (ACC) it is a honorable quick killing rare cancer I would really appreciate the help. If you would be willing to help or know of any one willing to help me to inform people and possibly help save or expand a life email me and I will send you info on it.
I mean horrible sorry.
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Answer by XxAddelinaxX
i will send it to me & i will put it as a chain letter or on my piczo u choose
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Why would lung disease be more common in a large urban area than in a remote rural area?
Question by Amber: Why would lung disease be more common in a large urban area than in a remote rural area?
Thank you for your time.
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Answer by Charlie M.
There is most likely a great deal more exposure to carcinogens in an urban area. For example, large factories, especially in the past, probably spewed out smoke containing cancer-causing materials. The air tends to be much cleaner in smaller, remote places.
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if tobacco companies werent sued, would there be a cure for cancer?
Question by john silvia: if tobacco companies werent sued, would there be a cure for cancer?
if the companies were able to advertise and sell there tobacco like before, would there be a serious motivation to cure cancer until a cure was found?
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Answer by In Charms Way
In my heart of hearts, I believe there are cures for certain types of cancer. However, the argument should no longer be with the tobacco companies. It should be with the drug companies that hold back their scientific findings because it behooves them.
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Why would it take Johnson & Johnson 2 more years to remove cancer causing chemicals from its baby shampoo?
Question by : Why would it take Johnson & Johnson 2 more years to remove cancer causing chemicals from its baby shampoo?
Two chemicals known to cause cancer in babies remain in Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo sold in the U.S, even though the company already makes versions without them in other countries. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has unsuccessfully been urging the world’s largest health care company for 2 1/2 years to remove the cancer-causing chemicals (dioxane and quaternium-15) from Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. Johnson & Johnson said it is reducing or gradually phasing out the chemicals, but it would take two more years to do so. That would be 4 1/2 years from the time it was discovered by Johnson & Johnson.
According to a report, obtained by The Associated Press, one of the suspect chemicals, quaternium-15, is a preservative that works by releasing formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, used as an embalming fluid, was declared a known human carcinogen this past June by the U.S. National Toxicology Program.
Formaldehyde is also a skin, eye and respiratory irritant, and Quaternium-15 is still an ingredient in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo sold in the U.S., Canada, China, Indonesia and Australia, but research this summer found it’s not in the same product sold in at least eight other countries, from the U.K. and Denmark to Japan and South Africa.
According to Analytical Sciences LLC of Petaluma, Calif., 1,4-dioxane was contained in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, Oatmeal Baby Wash, Moisture Care Baby Wash and Aveeno Baby Soothing Relief Creamy Wash. Analytical Sciences also tested multiple Johnson & Johnson baby product samples from the U.S. finding the chemicals in many of them. Consumer groups in South Africa, Sweden and Japan stated that quaternium-15 was not being used in products in their countries.
There is evidence that formaldehyde is associated with nose, lung and blood cancers such as leukemia. An infant’s scalp is more permeable than an adult’s, so exposure to the chemicals cause more harm for babies than adults. To expose a child, during a very vulnerable period of development, when the effect is even greater, and at a time when Johnson & Johnson knows of its dangers, it still intends to take two more years before it stops using those chemicals in its products.
Do we need less governmental regulation, so that corporations do not have to go to the trouble of making products safe? According to Republican legislators, we do need less regulation, because it cuts into the profit margin.
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Answer by Jessi
Ι think it is better seeing a doctor in person to answer this kind of questions.
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Why was the patient in pain? What would eventually have happened to the lung on the injured side if noone help?
Question by : Why was the patient in pain? What would eventually have happened to the lung on the injured side if noone help?
A victim of a car accident was lying in pain by the side of the road with a thoracic wound which was making a strange sucking noise with each labored inhalation. A passing off-duty paramedic applied a moist plastic sheet to the wound and the sound stopped. Why was it important that the plastic sheet be moist?
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Answer by Sunny
It is important to be moist so air cannot pass through as easily. It sounds like the patient had a pneumothorax, which is a hole in the chest cavity. It was getting harder to breathe because air was going into the cavity and can compress the lung. A tension pneumothorax can actually shift the heart and trachea and be deadly if not promptly treated.
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Would using a gas mask with a filter cause cancer?
Question by : Would using a gas mask with a filter cause cancer?
I bought this soviet gas mask, and it came with a filter (obviously) but i was wondering if using the gas mask (as a novelty item, not in any hazardous environment) could cause any sort of lung cancer or disease over extended use.
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Answer by Adam
Depends on how old it is. If the filter is really old, it should be inert by now. Honestly, I’d just wash it out good, maybe even remove all the components from the filter and just have the steel or plastic shell.
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When it comes to Fetuses, would it be proper to say…?
Question by : When it comes to Fetuses, would it be proper to say…?
My definition of a baby as opposed to a fetus is any fetus that is 23+ weeks olds (end of 2nd Trimester). that’s not what this post is about so the explanation for this is at the bottom.
a fetus is not alive, but rather just an extension of a woman’s body, in which case would give her the right to remove it at anytime (just like a wart, or your tonsil)? Or that the fetus is a totally separate living organism (in this case a human), in which case she would have the right to remove it from her body at anytime (just like any other living organism that is inside her body, such as a bacterium)?
the latter, which contends that the fetus is a living human being, does not implicate death by removal, rather it follows the logic that if said fetus is in fact a living human being, then like all other human beings it can live outside of the womb.
Now, I did in a broad generalization say ALL other humans. According to people who contend that a pre-3rd Trimester fetus is a human, this is not entirely true in the context of the phrase “live” outside the womb. While every human being has the ORGANS (lung, brain, heart, etc) to live outside of the womb (something that a pre-3rd Trimester feti DOES NOT have, as they lack lungs up until that point), not every human is capable of using them (feti are capable of using their organs too, you just can’t use lungs that you don’t actually have yet, that would defy logic just as much as a three sided circle). Now, if you are to view a pre-3rd Trimester fetus as a living human that the mother has a responsibility to support the life of, no matter how much of a non-life threatening strain this may put on her, then I would assume that along those same lines of logic (i.e. keeping the “human” alive no matter how much of a non-life threatening strain it may put on the host, you are OBLIGATED BY LAW), that if a doctor were to one day come to your door and tell you that your 17 year old son is Brain Dead and is being kept alive by life support (i.e. the same way that what I define as a fetus is kept alive only by the constant life-supporting supply of oxygen that it receives from it’s mother) then you, the mother, would have a responsibility to support the life of the brain dead “human” (fetus that cannot survive under any circumstances without life support), no matter how much of a non-life threatening strain this may put on you. Let’s call this non-life threatening strain that your brain dead son would put on you $ 120,000 over the course of the next 18 years, or to put that in lay mens terms: the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18. Would you agree to bear the burden of supporting a “human” that you know will interfere with your ability to support other children? (or in the case of an abortion mother interfere with her ability to get an education/higher paying job that will allow her to better support a different child later down the road) or would you cut the plug and murder him in an evil act, as I am sure you would also view abortion, just to save your own money? (i.e. for the same reason some mothers get abortions)
(continued from the top) This is also the definition set fourth by a few states as well, and it is not a random definition. This definition is chosen by said states because of the fact that before week 22 ALL feti have a Not Applicable (N/A) survival rate outside the womb, which is basically an absolute 0% chance; not a single fetus (not even Jesus) in the entire history of human kind could have survived if taken out of the womb before week 22. After week 24 however ALL feti have a 1% chance of survival outside the womb. It is during these 2 weeks and these 2 weeks ONLY, never before and never after, that 100% of feti develop lungs, which, for the first time in their existence, provides them with a way to supply oxygen to themselves. This is why a survival rate is not applicable before week 22; surviving doesn’t apply to something with the tools to survive. This is when a fetus becomes a human; when it can survive outside the womb, just like every other living human.
for the record, I consider permanently Brain Dead people a giant ball of matter, just like dead people.
Retarded people are totally different from brain dead people:
They are actually alive, able to move, think, interact, feel; these are what it means to live.
I have no problem with any of those groups. or even brain dead people. I just call it how I see it. someone who has suffered a stroke and whose brain has been turned into plasma, and is only alive by life support, isn’t really alive.
and for the record if it was my baby, I would fight really hard if she wanted an abortion, I don’t think I could live with myself, especially since I also have the financial capacity to support them.
But there’s an old adage I use:
not my chair, not my problem.
I could give two shits about anyone else but me and people I care about.
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Answer by John Smith
nothing just get an abortion
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How much weight and how fatigued would one be if they had stage IV (any) cancer?
Question by WTFFTW: How much weight and how fatigued would one be if they had stage IV (any) cancer?
Had a little scare a while ago. I must have had some bug because I’d be getting up around 10 AM and going to bed around 9 PM (albeit laying in that bed in between). I’ve since gotten better, still feeling fatigued though (probably from all the anxiety). I’m able to stay up for 15 or 16 hours with caffeine. I also lost 5 lbs in a week, getting down to 150 at lowest, but I’ve been gaining a little weight since my appetite returned a few weeks ago (around 3 lbs). The only medication I’ve been taking is Tylenol to soothe some of my tension headaches. If I had metastasized cancer, would I be feeling even more fatigued and be losing even more weight? I’m an 18 year old, 5’9″ male, and my weight seems to be healthy for my age and height.
I haven’t been diagnosed with anything, I’ve just been feeling really weird lately. I may have a few symptoms of colon and oral cancer, but there are inconsistencies (i.e. no blood in stool and they are usually normal size – more like IBS probably, and my sore throat began before my lymph nodes enlarged). I just get really worried because of what happened to my father, and I’d like it if I got some straight answers regarding the question instead of questions about my personal history. Sorry, but I just get annoyed when people respond without actually answering the question, but I’ll get over it.
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Answer by inverse_mushroom_cloud
Have you been diagnosed with cancer?
Do you have any symptoms of cancer?
Do you worry about cancer a lot?
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If raising taxes by 0.5% would cure cancer, would Grover Norquist agree to telling the GOP to raise them?
Question by : If raising taxes by 0.5% would cure cancer, would Grover Norquist agree to telling the GOP to raise them?
Or should we just go ahead and prepare for another few more centuries of cancer mortalities?
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Answer by Obama hood – Spread the Wealth
I am starting to believe that you have a infatuation with Grover Norquist. Are you part of his fan club or something? Did he reject your advances?
@Poboy – This guy is one person out of thousands in Washington DC. You have political influence from MoveON.org, the ACLU, Huffington Post, and other organizations saying that we need to raise taxes. We have others like Grover Norquist, Heritiage Foundation, etc. saying we don’t need to raise taxes and we need to cut spending.
Personally, having this Asker ask question after question about Grover Norquist shows that he clearly has an infatuation with him for some reason other than taxes. Is a restraining order required.
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What would you do? I have a situation at hand. I care for my 75yr old mother whom has lung cancer. See Below>>?
Question by : What would you do? I have a situation at hand. I care for my 75yr old mother whom has lung cancer. See Below>>?
For now.. she is mobile, drives, cooks, no walker. She has asthma and sometimes get a little winded but it takes awhile and some days she is fine. She will occasionally nap. She has to have treatments coming up for cancer and possibly for two brain mets. Then checked every four months for both with cat scans. Oncology appts and her general MD. We share my car. She put it in my name when she was diagnosed and I am the one who primarily food shops, cleans and takes care of my one older dog.
I had been collecting unemployment which ends the second week in Feb. I went for an interview today at Pet Smart for a groomer trainee but.. they require you to stay one whole month in another far away location. I am unable to do so because of my mothers needs and treatments along with my dog and leaving her without a car. So.. I have to decline.
I wanted to take a legal assistant/secretary course for 15 months which can be done two full days only a week OR.. at nights. But.. the issues is a job. I can’t work a typical M to F job because I have to have a 2-3 days open a week for my mothers appointments with cancer are many. We have no one else to help or take her at all.
I was considering home health care/companion aide where you travel to a few or so homes a day or night.. Or split shift. But.. there are no health benefits in this for me.. But the hours are flexible around your own schedule which allows me the freedom for my mothers appointments and treatments and possibly even for school for me. I personally .. rather do something I like a lot but.. at this time and in my situation.. I don’ t have many choices out there to choose from. I also can office clean at night but I will only bring in 15-20 hours at night of work and that is not enough money a month for me. With home health care you can get 30 or work for two or three agencies. I just rather not.. work again with sick because I am dealing with that now. Should I just bite the bullet and do it ..like it or not because of my situation?
Thanks
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Answer by Page
i know how you feel i am 14 now and i was diagnosed with cancere when i was 7 and had it til up to last month. times are tough and my mom had the same problem raising in money for me and my medical bills. once you get a good job there will be medical advantages that you can put your mother on and you might even beable to get medical insurance that pays more of the bills. cancer takes alot out of a patient. all best wishes and prayers to your mother.. God bless<3
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Would you consider a dose of 2L of oxygen for treatment emphysema a high or low dose?
Question by winterdaisy: Would you consider a dose of 2L of oxygen for treatment emphysema a high or low dose?
I am trying to answer a physiology question and I think this a normal dose for the treatment. But the question is this a high dose or low dose? Help please.
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Answer by Teddy’s Mom
It’s a lower dose.
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Anmyone else think that a diagnosis of terminal cancer, would make you DANGEROUS to mess with?
Question by Chumley: Anmyone else think that a diagnosis of terminal cancer, would make you DANGEROUS to mess with?
As in, LETHALLY dangerous.
People generally suck a$ $ . I mean, you’ll get some
aggro d!ckhead in your face over a minor traffic
incident (in this case, it was the D!CKHEAD’S
fault) but you don’t do anything (in this case, the
a-hole was a big, 300-pound, ugly Indian that I really
didn’t want to tangle with (on HIS terms, anyway.)
Now imagine, that I had just been diagnosed with
metastatic melanoma (in fact, I had an early melanoma
removed about 5 years ago and it was just dumb
luck that it was caught before it spread.)
And that Indian fool got in my face and started pushing me.
Imagine that I had a pistol or knife on me…
What would I have to lose, considering that I was a dead
man already (from the metastasized cancer)?
It’s not like I care about him, or his family. (In fact, I’d like
to slap his mother for not keeping her disgusting thighs
together the night she ended up conceiving Fat Boy.)
Anyone else think they’d be DAMNED dangerous, if
they got a terminal disease..?
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Answer by ioerr
I smell a screenplay
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What would be expected if the amount of interstitial fluid surrounding the capillary beds of the lungs were to?
Question by US GIRL: What would be expected if the amount of interstitial fluid surrounding the capillary beds of the lungs were to?
What would be expected if the amount of interstitial fluid surrounding the capillary beds of the lungs were to increase significantly?
The amount of oxygen entering the circulation from the lungs would increase.
The amount of carbon dioxide entering the lungs from the blood would increase.
The pressure would cause the capillary beds to burst.
The amount of oxygen entering the circulation from the lungs would decrease.
The amount of oxygen entering the circulation from the lungs would decrease, and the pressure would cause the capillary beds to burst.
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Answer by kendra
The amount of oxygen entering the circulation from the lungs would decrease.
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If she was your 17 y/o daughter, what would you do… what COULD you do?
Question by Been There: If she was your 17 y/o daughter, what would you do… what COULD you do?
Last night I got a medical update from someone about their daughter, who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma:
“The PET scan showed cancer in her lungs, lymph nodes, around her spleen, by her femur and near her groin. The cancer is aggressive and we are all in this together hoping the the six months of chemo and 1 month of radiation will take care of this.”
This family lives in another state. A PET scan costs around $ 2,000 where I live. Heaven knows what the total cost of her treatment will be. The family has insurance through her father’s work – he works for a very large, national company.
Seriously, think about YOUR circumstances (if you have insurance, what would it cover; what’s the max, what happens when she turns 18?). What could you do if she was your daughter? What would you be willing to do?
***I know nothing about Obama-care and I am not giving my opinion here, except to say that I doubt medical research would be significantly hindered if there was no incentive of large profits. Company scientists, bean counters – and their families/friends – are all affected by disease. People reading a [blood/tissue] slide or an X-ray don’t do it to see dollars signs.
@Betty – you didn’t answer the question: What could/would you do if she was your daughter?
For someone I ‘knew’ with non-Hodgkin’s, it took more than 3 months of paper-work and many, many phone calls before she was approved for a state-funded PET scan. Her teeth were falling out while she waited. And she still had to fight the Feds (SSI) to prove she was disabled. She was 34.
Re the 17 y/o daughter and insurance – she’s a high school senior, and in her condition, being a college student seems out of the question.
@ mamadixie – FANTASTIC!! Give him a hug for me.
(pssst… I’m not giving anyone ‘thumbs down’)
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Answer by DatNigguh
slap dat b!tch and tell her to obey her daddy till she out the house!
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If a person had a cancerous tumour in this area what kind of cancer would it be?
Question by With her head in the clouds: If a person had a cancerous tumour in this area what kind of cancer would it be?
I had a dream where I had one cancerous tumour in my pituitary gland and one lodged onto the side of my heart that was stopping my mungs from fully expanding. It was causing me shortness of breath. In the dream I had two lots of surgeries, both successful then I had chemo and radiation.
But my real questions is what kind of cancer would you call the tumour in my heart (the pretend tumour from the dream) would it be lung cancer because its close to the lungs or would it be like heart cancer or something because it’s attached to the heart? Is there even such thing as heart cancer or would it be called something else?
Also what are some of the after-effects of chemotherapy and radiation? With the chemo I’ve heard of general flu like symptoms and hearing loss, what else is there?
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Answer by gangadharan nair
Pituitory adenoma (tumor) in the brain and myxoma in the heart muscle.
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Why would big pharma try to stifle real cancer cures and push lies?
Question by : Why would big pharma try to stifle real cancer cures and push lies?
www.cancertruth.net www.naturalcures.com and learn the truth big pharma makes hundreds of billions
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Answer by Tarkarri
The answer to your question is that there is no reason for them to stifle real answer cures and push lies.
When looking for a treatment for my cancer I looked for substantiated facts rather than anecdotal evidence and as a result stuck to conventional treatment.
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Q&A: Why would it take Johnson & Johnson 2 more years to remove cancer causing chemicals from its baby shampoo?
Question by : Why would it take Johnson & Johnson 2 more years to remove cancer causing chemicals from its baby shampoo?
Why would it take Johnson & Johnson 2 more years to remove cancer causing chemicals from its baby shampoo?
Two chemicals known to cause cancer in babies remain in Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo sold in the U.S, even though the company already makes versions without them in other countries. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has unsuccessfully been urging the world’s largest health care company for 2 1/2 years to remove the cancer-causing chemicals (dioxane and quaternium-15) from Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. Johnson & Johnson said it is reducing or gradually phasing out the chemicals, but it would take two more years to do so. That would be 4 1/2 years from the time it was discovered by Johnson & Johnson.
According to a report, obtained by The Associated Press, one of the suspect chemicals, quaternium-15, is a preservative that works by releasing formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, used as an embalming fluid, was declared a known human carcinogen this past June by the U.S. National Toxicology Program.
Formaldehyde is also a skin, eye and respiratory irritant, and Quaternium-15 is still an ingredient in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo sold in the U.S., Canada, China, Indonesia and Australia, but research this summer found it’s not in the same product sold in at least eight other countries, from the U.K. and Denmark to Japan and South Africa.
According to Analytical Sciences LLC of Petaluma, Calif., 1,4-dioxane was contained in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, Oatmeal Baby Wash, Moisture Care Baby Wash and Aveeno Baby Soothing Relief Creamy Wash. Analytical Sciences also tested multiple Johnson & Johnson baby product samples from the U.S. finding the chemicals in many of them. Consumer groups in South Africa, Sweden and Japan stated that quaternium-15 was not being used in products in their countries.
There is evidence that formaldehyde is associated with nose, lung and blood cancers such as leukemia. An infant’s scalp is more permeable than an adult’s, so exposure to the chemicals cause more harm for babies than adults. To expose a child, during a very vulnerable period of development, when the effect is even greater, and at a time when Johnson & Johnson knows of its dangers, it still intends to take two more years before it stops using those chemicals in its products.
Do we need less governmental regulation, so that corporations do not have to go to the trouble of making products safe? According to Republican legislators, we do need less regulation, because it cuts into the profit margin.
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