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作者: daisyy (忘了你) 看板: livings
標題: 女性朋友一定要看!!
時間: Wed Apr 18 22:48:03 2001
Subject: Danger of using Tampons
Serious Health Concern
If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you use tampons, read this
and pass it on to your friends.
For the men receiving this email, please forward it to your friends,
significant others, sisters, mothers,daughters, etc.) Thanks! Check the labels
of the sanitary pads or tampons that you are going to buy the next time and
see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email. No wonder
so many women in the world suffer from cervical cancer and womb tumors. Have
you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why would they do
this? Because asbestos
makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to need to use more. Why
isn't this against the law since asbestos is so dangerous? Because the powers
that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider tampons as being
ingested, and, therefore, didn't consider them illegal or dangerous. This
month's Essence magazine has small article about this and they mention two
manufacturers of a cotton tampon alternative. The companies are: Organic
Essentials @1-800) 765-6491 and Terra Femme @(800)755-0212. A woman getting
her Ph.D. at University of Colorado at Boulder sent the following: "I am
writing this because women are not being informed about the dangers of
something most of us use: tampons. I am taking a class this month and I have
been learning a lot about biology and women,including much about feminine
hygiene. Recently we have learned that tampons are actually dangerous (for
other reasons than TSS). I'll tell you this -- after learning about this in
our class, most of the females wound up
feeling angry and upset with the tampon industry, and I for one, am going to
do something about it. To start, I want to inform everyone I can, and email is
the fastest way that I know how.
HERE IS THE SCOOP:
Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for
absorbency), and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching the products). The
tampon industry is convinced that we, as women, need bleached white products
in order to view the product as pure and clean. The
problem here is that the dioxin, which is produced in this bleaching process,
can lead to very harmful problems for a woman. Dioxin is potentially
carcinogenic (cancer-associated) and is toxic to the immune and reproductive
systems. It has also been linked to endometriosis and lower sperm counts for
men. For both sexes, it breaks down the immune system.Last September, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that there really is no set
"acceptable" level of exposure to dioxin given that it is cumulative
and slow to disintegrate. The real danger comes from repeated contact Karen
Couppert "Pulling the Plug on the Tampon Industry." I'd say using about 4-5
tampons a day, five days a month, for 38 menstruating years is "repeated
contact," wouldn't you? Rayon contributes to the danger of tampons and dioxin
because it is a highly absorbent substance. Therefore, when fibers from the
tampons are left behind in the vagina (as usually occurs), it creates a
breeding ground for the dioxin. It also stays in a lot longer than it would
with just cotton tampons. This is also the reason why TSS (toxic shock
syndrome) occurs.
WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached and that are all cotton.
Other feminine hygiene products (pads/napkins) contain dioxin as well, but
they are not nearly as dangerous since they are not in direct contact with the
vagina. The pads/napkins need to stop being
bleached, but, obviously, tampons are the most dangerous.
So, what can you do if you can't give up using tampons? Use tampons that are
made from 100% cotton, and that are UNBLEACHED. Unfortunately, there are very
few companies that make these safe tampons. They are usually only found in
health food stores. Countries all over the world (Sweden, Germany, British
Columbia, etc.) have demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the US has
decided to keep us in the dark about it. In 1989, activists in England mounted
a campaign against chlorine bleaching. Six weeks and 50,000 letters
later, the makers of sanitary products switched to oxygen bleaching (one of
the green methods available) (MS magazine, May/June 1995).> > WHAT TO DO NOW:
Tell people. Everyone. Inform them. We are being manipulated by this industry
and the government, let's do something about it! Please write to the
companies:
Tampax(Tambrands), Playtex, O. B., Kotex. Call the 800 numbers listed on the
boxes. Let them know that we demand a safe product
ALL COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS.
REMINDER:
In order not to lose the impact of this e-mail, I suggest that anyone who
wants to forward it to your friends, PLEASE copy this mail and paste it to a
NEW message. That way it will not distort the whole message with all the
forward arrows.
Leslie Urioste
Center for Health, Math & Science
303-556-2460
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