Infants & Plastic with comments by Linda, Dr. Gordon
By Linda on Mar 15, 2011 in F.I.G.H.T., Toxins | comments(0)
Linda’s comment: This is the very reason why most holistic/alternative doctors give their IV’s in glass bottles….plastic IV bags…..Can’t do anything about IV’s running through plastic lines…. I have to out-gas my oxygen tubes and nebulizer tubing before I can use them….I believe there is research going on, on how to makes some chemical FREE IV lines….<crossing fingers>
Dr. Gordon’s Comments: The parents’ concern about chemicals in IV bags and tubes are attempted to be answered in this very small study of 18 children. It tries to answer something about the potential for long-term adverse effects from phthalates delivered coincidentally with IV infusions through plastic lines that are now known to deliver toxins with the treatment.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Excerpt:
Surrounded By Plastic, NICU Infants Tested For Risk
by Jon Hamilton
May 19, 2009Critically ill newborns may help researchers figure out whether children are at risk from plastic additives called phthalates.
Scientists say the nation’s sickest newborns are exposed to unusually high levels of phthalates — chemicals in plastics that can mimic hormones — because they often spend days or weeks connected to feeding tubes, breathing tubes and intravenous lines made of plastic. And the exposure comes at a critical time in human development.
One doctor conducted a follow-up study by testing patients years after they were exposed to phthalates as infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
