Just donate blood. Skip the infection risk.
Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice
Submitted 1 year ago by FireTower@lemmy.world to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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holycrap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
oce@jlai.lu 1 year ago
I’m not donating my blood plastic for free!
Synthuir@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Oh great, now I have to worry about DuPont and Dow coming to repo my blood.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
New money making idea: plasma centers that filter microplastics.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What if we give you a donut for it?
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
They won’t take my blood.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welp, better make an appt with the leech doctor then
CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
It also works on forever chemicals. They studied levels of PFAS in the blood of firefighters (who are commonly exposed to high levels in the form they use), and found a clear difference between those that regularly donated blood and those who didn’t
wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 1 year ago
i mean, as part of my job, i routinely take area hospitals medical grade leeches. it's not like they ever stopped being used by doctors.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Why would you use a leech instead of a needle or something? What are they for
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not OP, but apparently they’re useful for when you want a continuous, slow drain of blood. The ones they breed for hospitals don’t carry disease, so you can just kinda plonk it onto the spot that you want blood out of, and replace it when it gets full
FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Wait until you find out what they still use maggots for…
Perfide@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It’s less about the blood they suck out and more about their saliva. It’s a natural anticoagulant.
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Amputation sites I think? The suction attracts blood flow to the area and supports healing/retention of blood vessels… I think. Neither one of us clearly can be bothered googling but that’s what I recall…
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 year ago
For skin grafts after burns; the leeches’ saliva has anticoagulants that helps blood flow through the microvasculature (tiny blood vessels) of the area. This helps promote growth of new blood vessels, as well as improve the health of the current blood vessels in the area.
TLDR: Helps tiny blood vessels in skin grafts (and other procedures), reduces failure of said skin grafts
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Others have already mentioned limb reattachment and anticoagulants, but if you’re interested in learning more, I highly recommend a book called Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures. Leeches, mosquitoes, bedbugs, and vampire bats are fascinating!
slampisko@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Makes me genuinely wonder… I’ve donated blood for like 15 times now – does that make my current blood less saturated with microplastics than if I hadn’t?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, because you eat and drink more microplastics to replenish yourself.
BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Donate 100% of blood, then fast. You’ll be microplastic free for the rest of your life!
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Donation won’t eliminate microplastics, but it will probably reduce their levels. (It has been shown to reduce levels of other harmful substances.)
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I 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 1 year ago
I don’t think any filtering happens in dialysis, unwanted stuff just diffuses to another solution
scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Probably not. Unless they build up in the body somewhere, the amount of microplastics in your blood is determined by how many you consume via inhaled dust, food, and drink compared with how many you flush put via urine and/or fecal material.
If they do build up in the body somewhere, it probably isn’t the blood, because blood is already filtered regularly.
Noedel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve read that’s true for PFAS… It depends on where the microplastics are stored by your body
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microplastics are the only guaranteed source of your daily dose of Vitamin P, as recommended by nobody and discouraged by the FDA.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fake News: The FDA would never protect you from petrochem.
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good thing I only listen to the FDB
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is why we donate blood.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This would be a powerful Red Cross ad.
Lower your microplastics count. Donate blood so you can make more.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I wonder if they actually filter the blood that people donate. I know they test it, but it would be cool if they filtered it as well for various crap.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Can anybody tell me why this is a bad idea
andrewth09@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The food you consume to produce the blood also has micro plastic. Nothing changes.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah buts it’s fresh micro plastic and not this stall stuff I’ve had in me for years.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
That should depend on how the chemicals accumulate though. If all the plastic ends up in your blood and never gets naturally filtered out, it could make sense. Maybe it builds up in your fat/muscles instead though, or gets filtered over time and the amount in your system is the same as the amount in what you have recently eaten, idk
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
That’s animal cruelty. (Feeding plastic-laden blood to leaches)
Synnr@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Somehow I don’t think they’d mind too much, provided you give them a nice leech habitat.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It’s random internet advice?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And 4Chan, which is the worst form of internet advice.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It isn’t. Blood donation reduces PFASs and iron buildup (too much iron in the blood is bad). And leeches are used in certain procedures, although I haven’t heard of them being used to remove microplastics (yet).
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Microplastic might be good for us for all we know, in still going to avoid them but it’s something to think about we don’t have any real idea of what the effect of them is.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00650-3
No, we know. There are a lot more…
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We have some very limited ideas from correlation and limited lab testing that allows us to say easy things like putting junk in vital veins is bad (the nature article) but that’s only a fraction of the types of microplastic and possible interactions - we know almost nothing about most of what’s happening.
And to be clear I said they might be good for us as hyperbole, it’s of course possible but what’s far more likely is a myriad of long lasting health effects causing serious damage in obscure and complex ways.
In a century they might be saying ‘those plastic brain gen alpha caused so many problems’ just as how it’s common to hear people talk about lead brain boomers… or maybe ‘wow crazy micro plastic gave us superpowers, that was lucky’
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can it help my credit score?
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spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
this would fix me i think
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A lower amount of blood to my brain might help stop the speed of a downward spiral. That or I could get diagnosed with ghosts and prescribed cocaine. Old medicine truly worked wonders.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 year ago
Give in to the leech.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That’s assuming you could somehow stop new microplastic from entering the body
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I mean, there is the argument that if they bioaccumulate in the blood, it’s worth removing periodically even if it doesn’t stop new intake
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
No because you’re making blood from nutrients with microplastics mixed in. That’s how it would hypothetically accumulate there in the first place. If it were being filtered out of the blood by another organ then I could see a case for removal but if it’s the blood then it’s coming directly from your food and drink and will be the same ratio even after bloodletting and/or regeneration.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microplastic leeches.