Rayon is a highly absorbent cellulose fiber made from wood pulp. Before it is added to a typical tampon, it is whitened with chlorinated bleach; dioxin is released as a byproduct of the bleaching process. Dioxin is recognized to be one of the most dangerous chemicals in existence (it was used as a contaminant in Agent Orange). In fact, the EPA doesn’t believe that there is any “acceptable” level of dioxin exposure for humans. It is therefore disturbing, that in 2005, the FDA Office of Women’s Health found “detectable levels of dioxin in seven brands of tampons” (to see the study, click here). Every time you remove a tampon, fibers are left behind. The fibers left behind by a cotton/rayon tampon linger longer and, because of their increased absorbency, hold the dioxin against your vaginal wall for an increased period of time. The EPA has determined that people exposed to high levels of dioxins may be at risk for damage to the immune system, increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, and reduced fertility; research on monkeys has linked dioxin exposure with an increased likelihood of endometriosis. You may not be getting a huge dose with each tampon, but you are getting dosed repeatedly with low levels. According to Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, author of The Uterine Crisis, those doses can spell trouble. “In the last 25 years, millions of women- teens through women in elder years- have had uterine related troubles,” she said. “Part of the trouble we know from research is directly related to the bleaching of tampons
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:02:25 +0000
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