Dangerous to allow the potent stuff on the market. One pill is not the same as another.
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Ohio discovers the Baby Wipe Allergy Crisis
Yesterday we talked about Baby wipes.
How is it that medical people a world away from each other would discover the allergens in baby wipes?
I looked at the ingredients and preservatives in my Equate Baby Wipes from Walmart, and the culprit identified in Australia was not in my baby wipes.
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/allergies_al0/Moistened-Toiletry-Wipes-Cause-Rash-Of-Problems.shtml
Dr. Zirwas in Ohio is described as a good allergy detective.
Zirwas says the chemical preservative is MI (methylisothiazolinon) and it has been around for years. MI is found in many water-based products like liquid soaps, hair products, sunscreen, cosmetics, laundry products and cleaners as well as pre-moistened personal hygiene products and baby wipes.
This report reveals the nature of the problem–it is an allergy, not a sensitivity (some would say a distinction without a difference) and the MI is the culprit. Some other chemical in some other brand may soon be discovered to be an allergen–allergens are all around us, causing skin and respiratory problems mostly. The mediator is histamine–which causes itching and blood vessel reactions, but also fluid expanding in tissues under the influence of the histamine.
Life threatening allergic reactions occur, for example from hymenoptera (bees, wasps, hornets) and sudden loss of blood pressure can occur–anaphylactic shock–a very impressive event indeed, and too often fatal. More people die from bees than rattlesnakes, for example, by far.
Patient Safety Junk Research
Here’s the typical panicky study on patient safety, this time about skilled nursing facilities.
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Markers for Leukemia
A study that shows that Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia CLL has a marker.
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Viv Forbes–Nice
Got a message from the boss of JunkScience.com. He is, like me, a fan of Viv Forbes, a reason why Americans should love Aussies.
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Censorship by the Warmist Tyrants
Holman Jenkins opines on the retaliation project of the losing warmers.
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Coal is Defended by Tom Harris
Times are tough in West Virginia because of the war on coal for no good reason.
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Drugs in the Water, Look for an Effect
One question, how does this researcher propose to do this research?
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Diaper Rash epidemic? Baby Wipes and the Ivory Plague
Baby wipes present a risk, according to a report by an Australian research group.
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Cooke on the Keystone XL opposition
Cooke’s commentaries on enviro matters are very good.
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Hayek was a Big League Junk Science Detective
Friedrich Hayek was an economist of great influence, Nobel Prize 1974, but he also was intensely interested in epistemology, psychology and the philosophy of Science.
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Maher and Maddow taken to school by Cooke
Charles Cooke, regular writer for National Review was invited to a debate about the Delta Smelt and the CA drought.
Maher and Maddow tried sneer and snark and still could not change the reality.
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