alt Hacker NewsDoing whole blood donations seems to significantly reduce PFAS in the blood. Here's one paper:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Edit: This also helps others who are in accidents, car wrecks, have Cancer, etc. Yes, we pass on the PFAS to others, but the immediate need for blood is more urgent than the potential long term impacts of PFAS.
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I used to donate blood regularly but now that I'm in Japan they require me to be decently fluent in Japanese to "understand" the risks, despite having done it a bunch of times in other countries (and other medical procedures not requiring Japanese knowledge).
My girlfriend accidentally told the donation center she went to Mexico, and they banned her from donating for four years.
Apparently you'd only go to Mexico to eat brain tacos and share needles with cows. Surely there's a better way to filter out risky blood.
I wonder what it would cost in the US to have a pint of blood taken - I can't donate. Guess I could do it myself...
Do blook banks have a way of filtering out PFAS? Or are we giving each other forever chemicals through blood donations?
> we pass the PFAS to others
Is there no way to filter them out of withdrawn blood?
Aren’t we just donating the PFAS to potentially sicker patients?
Reason #136 for why tech-bros need a blood boy to infuse from daily.
Bloodletting making a comeback? And having actual benefits this time?