Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months agoI was thinking that a kidney dialysis machine might be able to filter out that stuff from your blood. I think the way those work is your blood goes out a tube into the machine and it filters it before sending it back to you. So you’d need filters in there that are fine enough to catch the microplastics.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t think any filtering happens in dialysis, unwanted stuff just diffuses to another solution
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Correct. If there are actually micro plastics in your blood, the plastic is likely relatively small compared to a blood cell. Otherwise we would be witnessing a lot more issues with stroke/heart attacks. Any kind of filter small enough to filter out something that small would also filter out blood cells.