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Residents of Jersey have been recommended bloodletting to reduce high concentrations of “forever chemicals” in their blood after tests showed some islanders have levels that can lead to health problems.

Private drinking water supplies in Jersey were polluted by the use of firefighting foams containing PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) at the island’s airport, which were manufactured by the US multinational 3M.

PFAS, a family of more than 10,000 chemicals, can build up in the body and are linked to conditions such as kidney and bladder cancer, thyroid disease and immune deficiency.

Bloodletting draws blood from a vein in measured amounts. It is safe and the body replenishes the blood naturally, but it must be repeated until clean.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I'm guessing 3M — the billion dollar corporation who poisoned these people with it's product — will be forced to pay the medical costs for their crimes?

Lol. Jokes. I know we live in capitalist dictatorships.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

3M needs a huge fucking spanking like what China does to their negligent companies they want to really make a public example out of

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

which were manufactured by the US multinational 3M.

Why the past tense? They're still making it last I heard.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Privitize the profit, publicize all 'externalities' as if they are direct result of the profit seeking behaviors.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago

They probably won a contract to make more.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it will boil down to the question: could effective fire fighting foam have been made without these chemicals? if yes it's on 3M; if not, that's the price for fighting those kinds of fires.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Bloodletting? What is this, old timey medicine? "Looks like ya got ghosts in your blood, better do cocaine about it"

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When you've got bad shit in your blood, the most effective remedy is to just remove some blood and let the body make some new, clean blood.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Its just the responsible thing to do

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They probably need to find a better word for what they're doing because this is not the same as "I'm going to use this fleam and drain about a bucket's full of blood out of you so I can balance your bodily humours because I tasted your urine and you're far too phlegmatic."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year.

Is that per patient? Sounds awfully expensive for extracting a bit of blood.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also waste disposal of the blood, probably needs something special as normal Pfas destruction probably is not setup to include biohazard materials..

Still that pricetag would be insane if per person.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For a medical procedure in America? Nope that's well within the ballpark.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 2 points 11 months ago

Really should call it Old Jersey to prevent confusion /s

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Is this dialysis? Or a high percentage transfusion?

The only way this makes sense medically to me is if they are filtering the pfas out of the blood or doing blood replacement.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

How could they possibly have afforded to do it hundreds of years ago???

Just kidding, I know a lot of things are unnecessarily expensive just to make rich people and grifters more money.

[–] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

GET THE FUCKING LEECHES JIM!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: there are modern medical applications for leeches as well.

https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2020/03/how-leeches-can-save-lives-and-limbs-for-some-patients

And, if you want to be super grossed out, you can read about how maggots are used.

https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/your-visit/patient-leaflets/tissue-viability/maggot-therapy

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Make leeches great again

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Bloodletting eh?

They gon' get barbers to administer it too?

[–] john89@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there any way to hide these images on Lemmy?

They're pretty annoying.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

That is a hot take.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Insurance companies have us so backwards we're resorting to the old ways.

Modern medicine has simply become too expensive, embrace humorous medicine reject miasmas.

How do I invest in witchcraft?