Pregnant Women don’t Panic: but Your Sons might become Infertile
By Carolin
How long can this go on?
First they present evidence that our sons can become infertile and get testicle cancer due to chemicals in body creams and perfumes.
Then they advise us not to panic.
Many cosmetic products contain chemicals that can damage reproductive system of the male foetus.
Research on rats carried out by Professor Richard Sharpe, principal investigator at the Medical Research Council’s Human Sciences Unit, has found that the damage can happen as early as in week 8 of your pregnancy. A time when many women do not even know that they are pregnant!
Professor Sharpe says that: “We have found the male programming window, which occurs far earlier in foetal development than was previously thought”.
Even if they don’t have fully conclusive evidence yet. Even if they don’t know if it is the chemicals alone or the combination of them that is causing the damage. I don’t understand:
WHY ARE THESE CHEMICALS STILL ALLOWED?
Infertility or testicular cancer both growing medical problems across the world.
Here are some unpleasant facts from the article:
- Undescended testicles is the most common birth defect in boys.
- Undescended testicles is linked to infertility and a risk factor for developing testicular cancer later in life.
- Testicular cancer is increasing worldwide by between 1% and 6% a year.
- In the UK about 14% of all couples have difficulty conceiving at some time. About one third of these cases are due to problems in the man such as sperm count and quality.
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How can they? Stuff you put ON your body isn’t nearly as regulated as stuff you put IN your body and the stuff you put IN your body is probably more important, not that this isn’t. The hormonal dance that goes on during development and throughout life is complicated and delicate.
I don’t believe that any company says things like, “This will make her look good, but it will f*** up her baby…” Complete long-term testing is also difficult, expensive, and not entirely error-proof. That said, I do think companies should be ethical enough to be ready to pull any product that can be shown to have certain side-effects.
Then there’s the ethical issue of testing on humans Vs rats.
I guess one answer is is to have several sources, beyond Gov and Corp PR, looking at and analyzing these products, but then you have the competitors who will lie about a product or company to push their product/agenda. So who can we really rely on for accurate info?
Sorry to ramble, it’s an interesting and complicated issue.
Gregs last blog post..testing
Exactly.
How many companies can keep their ethics up when the pressure on revenues is so high? Short term investments have many downsides.
Most pregnant women try to adapt and do what is best for the baby but how do you keep up with all the news and alarms?
I really believe that we would benefit from regulations on the stuff we put ON our bodies as well.
And using available labels like USDA organic of course but so very few cosmetic companies can live up to that standard.