something wrong with the logic. Donating blood might remove it from you but its going in somone else?
im also not convinced donating blood removes anything if its in your pancreas.
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Akuchimoya@startrek.website 9 months agoIf you donate blood, you also remove the PFAS in that blood too. Donating blood is an altruistic act (at least in Canada, you cannot be paid for it), but it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a little side benefit. Blood letting is sometimes still a legitimate therapy for specific things.
snacks@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 9 months ago
You’re right, its going into someone else. Someone else who’s probably going to die in a more immediate circumstance than PFAS poisoning.
penguin_knight@lemmy.world 9 months ago
blood you donate doesnt always go into someone else. I don’t know the stats for what fraction gets transplanted, but researchers also use blood for different reasons.
snacks@feddit.uk 9 months ago
but there is no uncontaminated blood, its in everyone. Im just saying dont kid yourself
rosymind@leminal.space 9 months ago
The problem is with how wide-spread it is, even if you get rid of it through blood donation you’re still going to pick it back up again by eating and drinking. There’s no escaping it; what we need is to stop using it, and figure out how to properly remove it from the environment.
It’s tough, though, because many daily use items in every industry and household contains them.
For now, the best we can do is avoid items made with them (to the best of our knowledge), filter all our water, avoid food sources known to contain high amounts of it, and spread the word