Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions

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sent by protect_democracy since 33 days 13 hours 39 minutes, published about 33 days 8 hours 57 minutes
Exposure to chemicals, such as those being used to break down oil in the region, like the dispersant, Corexit, may be the cause of such infections. Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes, which cover and protect human skin. Human skin is composed of a thin layer of lipids and Corexit, by nature, breaks down these organized barriers into smaller individual molecules allowing the barrier to become permeable to pathogens. The skin irritation could be caused by prolonged exposure to these chemicals and could break down the ability of the body to fight off infection.
tags: bp, health, dispersants
6 commentscategory: Health and Wellness karma: 119

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  1. #1    This shows how dispersants attack. What it doesn't show is how these people are being exposed.
    Or what exactly is causing the lesions.
    Corexit, itself, is relatively harmless, but it carries other chemicals through cell walls, like an intramuscular injection. If it has breakdown products from the crude oil, many of them are highly irritating and some even carcinogenic. It would help to know how these people encountered this bad goo. Whether they were wading in it or was it in the shower?
    written by CwV since 33 days 9 hours 44 minutesCwV
  2. #2    We'll either see more reports of exposure like this over the years, or incidents like this will tail off.

    Cancer rates will go up significantly but it will take years for that trend to become visible and for research to verify it. People will continue to eat Gulf shrimp and fish because we're told it's safe. In fact, even now people are eating shrimp and fish without even a question of where it comes from. Once the cancers do show up BP will be long gone and the cancer rate will be an accepted fact of life.
    written by fontleroy since 33 days 6 hours 25 minutesfontleroy
  3. #3    "Corexit, itself, is relatively harmless..."

    Bullpuckey:

    "Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes"
    written by nasrudin since 32 days 11 hours 31 minutesnasrudin
  4. #4    What CwV means is that no billionaires or Zionists have been harmed by Corexit.
    written by Mike5000 since 31 days 22 hours 56 minutesMike5000
  5. #5    "I understand it's safe and I WOULD feed it to my family", I heard a BP official say, I think it was the new CEO, talking about seafood from the supposedly un-affected areas in the Gulf. He didn't say "AND I HAVE BEEN" feeding it to his family or "AND I DO".
    written by TurMault since 30 days 12 hours 32 minutesTurMault
  6. #6    This can't be from Corexit. The EPA has stated that it's on a list of approved chemicals, so everything's OK, right? All along officials have been acting as if this dispersant was on a tablet carved by God Himself and that that made everything OK. Oh and Thad Allen retired from the Coast Guard during the whole mess while keeping his post as Incident Commander, so he's gonna need a nice, high-paying job soon. I hear oil execs make a bundle.

    Oh and this little problem: "Economic conditions in the Gulf have left many people without health insurance, leaving them with little recourse in terms of medical care." Have you heard the old pirate expression, "Dead men tell no tales"? The US is deeply corrupt, run by the pirates of the Caribbean.
    written by Demogoddess since 30 days 12 hours 21 minutesDemogoddess
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