The Hidden Formaldehyde In Everyday Products

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Formaldehyde exposure may lead to a rather severe contact allergy. While more and more people became aware of formaldehyde content in their grooming, beauty, household articles, etc., it is widely unknown that the clothes you are wearing or your bed shits are made of formaldehyde-treated fabrics.
I am an airline stuff and I developed a severe formaldehyde allergy after my airline made us wear uniform blouses that were loaded with formaldehyde. Wearing the shiny cotton blouses on an intercontinental flights was a torture and no matter how often the blouses were washed, there was enough formaldehyde in the fabric to cause skin rashes and breathing problems. For a while the airline ignored the reports from affected employees. However, when the cases multiplied, new blouses from a different fabric were designed. The new fabric was tested for formaldehyde and the contact allergies disappeared. What was left, however, was the incredible sensitivity to the smallest amount of this poisonous substance.
Formaldehyde may also be found in shoes and leather attire as well as in products made of rubber.

Read all hair color product labels -they all contain formaldehyde-which is carcinogenic .Educate your self now before is to late.Hospitals use formaldehyde to safe tissue post operation in laboratory with huge red warnig signs-and sceleton picture.

My husband and I have also recently joined Melaleuca as a result of this information! What they allow in our products is completely unacceptable and we must get the word out to people because they simply remain uneducated on what they are using every day.

Me too! I love Melaleuca!

there are a lot of scare stories about chemicals that are out there, what they put in food, drinks, detergents etc. But on the whole, there is a problem. I don’t understand how anyone at any point in history decided that surrounding us and allowing us to consume such a vast array of chemicals that may not otherwise have been found in our normal diet or daily lives had we been wild animals, could be good for us. I have a little doubt that at some point in the future people will begin to phase out the majority of these potentially dangerous chemicals and look back upon this era as one in which man went on quite literally a chemical binge.

Formaldehyde is an odorless and tasteless gas that does not leave a smell and this makes it extremely difficult to locate. This gas tends to collect in homes and causes a range of medical problems, from eye irritations to respiratory problems, but most people do not even know it’s there.

of course it’s everywhere, it’s an organic chemical found often in nature. Humans can metabolize formaldehyde very quickly and without much harm. Unless you work in an industrial setting where you come into contact with large quantities as part of your daily life you should not have any problems. Yes it’s very toxic (but so is undiluted Vitamin D). Yes it’s a known carcinogen (but so is sunlight).

By the way it’s completely unavoidable anyways because its found naturally in fruits and vegetables (especially apples)

I had 2 perfectly healthy children until I moved into a manufactured home. Since, we have all been plagued by illness including child #3 who was in the house for the first 3 years of her life. I do find it odd than no one at the health dept or the neumerious doctors, we have seen wanted to even discuss the possibility that house was the cause!

My thoughts exactly, they even mentioned urea on their little list, I mean seriously, do they not know that we have a lot of these things in our bodies already?

I have severe formaldehyde contact allergy. It is disabling. It is awful. More awful is how the Canadian health care system has proceeded to call me crazy and put up every barrier possible to formal diagnosis. Severe angiodema, and urticaria, every item of commercial clothing and footwear is unbearable and unwearable.

No, but filling up our dead with chemicals and then burying them in the ground to pollute the soil is a cancer in itself. What’s the point? So we don’t have to look at their bodies in that state for the burial service. Seems selfish. What a silly comment.

Help. I am suffering from chemical and electrical sensitivities. It has destroyed my life. Lost my ability to work, my home, and my savings. I have also lost my family as a result. Looking at being homeless n the next week. Was a successful person prior to these conditions. They have destroyed me. Please help.

Same to you

I’m not claiming it’s what’s in the food that causes allergic responses and health issues so i still domt know what poi t you were trying to make in that comment or in your first what’s in our bodies and food is yes because it’s in the air and entering our bodies but they don’t need to spray it on the outside of produce to preserve it just like it doesn’t need to be in soap makeup cleaners carpet furniture adhesives ect the purpose of this article was to inform people that long term exposure can cause health problems and obviously he is not lying about any of it because me along with other people suffer from the unnecessary use of it it’s a carcinogenic you said the sun is a cargiogenic right that’s why tanning beds are un safe because of the high levels of exposure you said you can’t help it that I have contact dermatitis but the government could have and who’s to say just because you don’t have to suffer from it now means you won’t at some point in your life time to this chemical or any of the other thousands that everyone’s exposed to including you and children show a little compassion and awareness until you walk in someone’s shoes who cant controll the thing that makes their lives sufferable don’t act like you know everything about it because obviously you don’t

That’s is not true at all im sorry but you are wrong I’m a massage therapist i worked in a bar I’m a mother… I cleaned with it massaged with it I bathed in it lay on it wear it I physically cannot even touch someone else who uses it on they’re skin without having a allergic response now i have to make my own bath soaps laundry soaps lotions cleaners ect because my hands feet fore arms knees neck ect all breakout severely even with the slightest contact and if there’s high enough levels in the air it can still tiger a allergic reaction even to my skin not just to my lungs cus I breath it I don’t have breathing problems due to it being jn the air it’s because it’s used in everyday items that’s unavoidable I can’t use soap in bath rooms i have to bring my own I can’t use hand sanitizers even going grocery shopping I can’t touch produce cus its sprayed with it shopping carts because it’s on people’s skin and they touch these things I can’t hold someone’s hand I can’t go to places like amusements parks without wearing gloves or dealing with the break outs that even if you don’t come into contact with it at all will still cause your skin to break out for 3-6 months after even just minimal exposure sometimes in some sever cases 8 months and if you do come in contact in that time sets back the healing process of the skin do your research

Why do you keep saying in the air?!?!?! It’s in fabric soap detergents adhesives ect and I guess the papers I have from my dermatologist are false to right like I said you sound ignorant and must have missed what this who article was about that it’s not just in the air it’s in products we use on our skin use to clean with and build with

I have a severe allergy to formaldehyde and food is a BIG factor. Yes, the products I use have impact too but my detmatitis most definitely can (and for me does) be affected by the food. If I eat pork, or bananas my skin is horrible for a few days, but I can eat watermellon all day and have no reaction. I have a list of foods that naturally produce formaldehyde, but they all produce different amounts. So please do not say that formaldehyde in food has nothing to do with that.

I have tested my IPad and found high levels of formaldehyde. It effects my asthma, makes me sneeze or makes breathing difficult after a few minutes. Would like a formaldehyde free IPad. Also my computer screen.