Opasni tamponi!

[Kika]

Dobila sam mejl ove sadrzine pa sam htela da podelim sa vama,cisto da znate i budete upozorene.
Pozdrav, 8)
Kika

PLEASE READ***

If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you
use tampons, read this and pass it on to your friends.
For the men receiving this email, please forward it to
your friends, significant others, sisters, mothers,
daughters, etc.

Check the labels of the sanitary pads or tampons that
you are going to buy the next time and see whether you
spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email.

No wonder so many women in the world suffer from
cervical cancer and womb tumors.

Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in
tampons? Why would they do this?

Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed
more, you're going to need to use more. Why isn't this
against the law since asbestos is so dangerous?
Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not),
did not consider tampons as being ingested and,
therefore, did not consider them illegal or dangerous.


This month's Essence magazine mentions 2 manufacturers
of a cotton tampon alternative.

The companies are: Organic Essentials @ 1-800-765-6491
and Terra Femme @ 1-800-755-0212.

A woman getting her Ph.D. at University of Colorado
sent the following:

"I am writing this because women are not being
informed about the dangers of something most of us
use: Tampons.

I am taking a class this month and I have been
learning a lot about biology and women, including
feminine hygiene. Recently we have learned that
tampons are actually dangerous (for other reasons than
TSS). After learning about this in our class, most of
the females wound up feeling angry and upset with the
tampon industry, and I for one, am going to do
something about it. To start, I want to inform
everyone I can, and email is the fastest way that I
know how. HERE IS THE SCOOP: Tampons contain two
things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for
absorbency), and dioxin (a chemical used in
bleaching). The tampon industry is convinced that we,
as women, need bleached white products in order to
view the product as pure and clean. The problem here
is that the dioxin, can lead to very harmful problems
for a woman. Dioxin is potentially carcinogenic
(cancer-associated) and is toxic to the immune and
reproductive systems. It has also been linked to
endometriosis and lower sperm counts for men. For both
sexes, it breaks down the immune system. Last
September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
reported that there really is no "acceptable" level of
exposure to dioxin given that it is cumulative and
slow to disintegrate. The real danger comes from
repeated contact (Karen Couppert "Pulling the Plug on
the Tampon Industry"). I'd say using about 4-5 tampons
a day, five days a month, for 38 years is "repeated
contact", wouldn't you? Rayon contributes to the
danger of tampons and dioxin because it is a highly
absorbent substance. Therefore, when fibres from the
tampons are left behind in the vagina (as usually
occurs), it creates a breeding ground for the dioxin.
It also stays in a lot longer than it would with just
cotton tampons. This is also the reason why TSS (toxic
shock syndrome) occurs. WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached
and that are all cotton. Other feminine hygiene
products pads/napkins) contain dioxin as well, but
they are not nearly as angerous.

So, what can you do if you can't give up using
tampons?

Use tampons that are made from 100% UNBLEACHED cotton.


Unfortunately, there are very few companies that make
these safe tampons. They are usually only found in
health food stores. Countries all over the world
(Sweden, Germany, British Columbia, etc.) have
demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the US
has decided to keep us in the dark about it. In 1989,
activists in England mounted a campaign against
chlorine bleaching. Six weeks and 50,000 letters
later, the makers of sanitary products switched to
oxygen bleaching (one of the green methods available)
(MS magazine, May/June 1995).

WHAT TO DO NOW: Tell people. Everyone. Inform them. We
are being manipulated by this industry and the
government, let's do something about it! Please write
to the companies: Tampax (Tambrands); Playtex; O.B.;
Kotex. All the 1800 numbers are listed on the boxes.
Let them know that we demand a safe product: ALL
COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS. REMINDER: In order not to
lose the impact of this email, I suggest that anyone
who wants to forward it to their friends, PLEASE copy
this mail and paste it to a NEW message. That way it
will not distort the whole message with all the
forward arrows. Please do this with consideration and
seriousness.

[Kika]

Sad vidim da je Nani postavila slicnu temu,nekoliko postova ispod
Ako moderator smatra da je tema ista,neka obrise ili nek stavi kao post reply u post koji je Nani otvorila.
Sorry i hvala 8)

[mamazika]

Tamo se više raspravlja o kvaliteti a posebno o platnenim ulošcima. Ionako je bio predug pa je za zaključati. Samo vi tu dalje raspravljajte o tamponima.