#Contaminated Products

[kids-worldfun]

The Consequences of Toxic Baby Food

As parents and caregivers, we want the best for our little ones. This includes providing them with safe and nutritious food for their growth and development. Baby food is a staple for many infants, offering essential vitamins and minerals during a crucial time in their lives. But what if the food meant to nourish them contained hidden dangers? Recent concerns have emerged regarding toxic baby…

[spooniebuggy]

OCD is so weird because what do you mean I have contamination anxiety about my towel hanging in the bathroom?

I finally overcame that yesterday. I sort of still stress about it at certain points throughout the day. But it's still in the bathroom. So I'm proud of myself.

[tincansamurai]

there has to be a better term than plant-based. it seems like such a cop out. like it doesn't guarantee something is vegan, if that was the case they would label it vegan right? seems like a phrase to invoke veganism but leave wiggle room for contaminates and non-plant derived additives because, well, it's plant based, not 100% entirely composed of plant material. like the phrase is obviously completely unregulated and linguistically roasted vegetables with butter added are still plant based. a vegetable broth risotto with bits of pancetta is still like 90% plants. what does it mean. if it's vegetarian or vegan just write that

[hauntingblue]

ARCANE EPISODE 7!!!!

MY GOD I WASNT READY FOR ANY OF THIS!!! WHAT WAS THAT!!!

Also ekko wallpaper I got with my fries lmao

[katyspersonal]

[nando161mando]

"As can be seen from the list, over 200 of these products were found to have more than one active substance which are either banned in the European Union or restricted.

A handful of the products are also issued notice for incorrect labelling, this means not declaring ingredients."

[woobie-wan]

[cornix-the-void-crow]

Sometimes I forget the implication that Carmilla Carmine may have toppled the security of overlords due to her angelic steel weapon business. Because now the access to weapons lethal to overlords and higher power hellborn demons is question of money. And if someone has a lot of money they can armour an assassin with blessed/angelic weapon, and that would be it. A permanent death

[mofffun]

Bo...Boshimaru's felt patch isn't even his childhood face it's a hand-made felt patch with his grown-up face on his grown up underpants

did. did he had those custom. did he made them themselves. did kamejim just kept on wearing those embroidered undies in his disguise

[the-prophecy]

So like during sem end before exams blah blah we had extra duties bc a higher conference of my dept is coming up and we had to make products for gifting the judges etc and like a PTC plant takes time to grow and there are contam issues....i inoculated like 25 plants by staying back and all bc products nai the and we would've been screwed by hod if we didn't have 15 of those......ceo sent me photos today ALL OF THEM GREW SO AMAZINGLY IN VIALS I CAN CRY 😭

[adalborj]

That should be the point, you make a product that's useful and it's good quality, when people are satisified you focus on another product and you repeat the formula like that until all the consumer's necesities are met

[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2025

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS - Bad Bunny (2025)

[hawkebop]

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[screambirdscreaming]

Look, I get where you're coming from, but I think you've swung too far in the other direction here. NSAIDs and acetaminophen are, in most places as far as I'm aware, the only options available for non-prescription pain medications. They're available without prescription because, if used infrequently and within the recommended dosages, they are relatively safe and low in side effects. HOWEVER. it is very difficult to get a prescription for pain medication, and even if you do, those medications also come with dose limits and side effects. So the bottom line is that many, MANY people are relying on NSAIDs and acetaminophen for the primary management of chronic pain. And in that context, it is absolutely possible to severely hurt yourself. Which I think people absolutely deserve more knowledge and awareness of - even if they find it somewhat alarming.

This is especially true where people are brushed off by doctors to "just use advil" for pain that is quite frankly, too severe and ongoing for advil to safely handle. The dismissive way in which doctors treat NSAIDs gives the impression that they are harmless, and many people are desperate for relief. This leads people to use NSAIDs heavily and without precautions, causing lasting harm to themselves which could have been averted, or at least mitigated, by taking steps towards safer use - like those outlined in the original post. NSAIDs work on several biochemical pathways at once - they reduce inflammation, relax muscles, decrease pain signalling of nerves, and slightly inhibit blood clotting, and they also increase the production of stomach acid and decrease the production of protective mucus lining the stomach. This function is pretty much baked in, there's no way around it. So it's not an issue of "some people's stomachs are sensitive to NSAIDs," it's an issue of "NSAIDs cause some damage directly to the stomach lining every time you take them". It's not very much damage from one dose, and if that's the only dose you take for a while, it'll heal right back up. But if you keep taking them, multiple doses back to back, for days or weeks on end.... the damage starts to add up. Or even if you don't use them that much, but take maybe a dose every day to help with muscle soreness after work... or a couple times a month, for migraines or period cramps.... point is, if the damage to the stomach lining is happening faster than it can heal, you start to get problems - but you probably won't notice anything is wrong until it gets pretty bad.

Being careless until you get a proto-ulcer, or an ulcer, or acid reflux, or a bleeding lesion in the duodenum - is not a great tactic. And I will tell you, pretty much everyone I know who is careful about taking their NSAIDs with food or antacids, has become careful after suffering AT LEAST one of the above. And many people end up, as OP said, unable to take NSAIDs at all, because the chronic damage to the stomach is too easily aggravated. Which is not great! So it's good to get in the habit of safer use, before you find yourself in a situation of heavily using pain meds without realizing they could cause lasting damage! Because the underlying issue is stomach acid causing damage to the stomach lining, you can: - take NSAIDs with food, or after eating, so the food dilutes the stomach acid - take NSAIDs with an antacid, like tums (although avoid aluminum-based antacids with ibuprofen) - take NSAIDs with an H2 blocker, a relatively fast-acting medicine that reduces acid produced by the stomach - take a daily PPI medication, which reduces acid produced by the stomach over the long term

Now, H2 blockers and PPIs are other (non-prescription) medications which have their own potential for side effects and interactions - so do your research if you want to add either of them to your medication regimen. But they can be very helpful, especially for healing up if damage has already been caused. Now all that being said. Acetaminophen is a COMPLETELY different story. And what pushed me to reply to this post was the way you were lumping together information on max dosages, which I think is dangerously misleading, even if the numbers are not technically incorrect. See, the risk with NSAIDs is chronic damage from long-term use, but they are relatively safe drugs in the acute sense. For Ibuprofen in particular - the bottle will tell you not to take more than 400mg at once, but if pressed a doctor will say you can take up to 800mg and it's perfectly safe if you don't make too much of a habit of it, and hypothetically you could even take a much higher dose than that and not die, although you wouldn't have a very good time. So, while it is certainly not recommended to take more than 800mg at once or more than 1600mg a day to avoid long-term consequences.... it happens. Which can perhaps teach a person the wrong lessons about dose safety. The risk with acetaminophen is acute toxicity. If you take too much at once, it causes liver toxicity, and then liver failure, and then death. This process can be stopped, but not reversed, so survival depends strongly on early diagnosis and treatment. You might think that the toxic dose in enough higher than the treatment dose that it'd be difficult to overdose accidentally - but that's not necessarily the case. From a National Institute of Health summary on Acetaminophen toxicity: "Acetaminophen toxicity is the second most common cause of liver transplantation worldwide and the most common cause of liver transplantation in the US. It is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year in the United States. Fifty percent of these are unintentional overdoses." Sure, relative to the total population, overdoses aren't *that* common - but if 50% are accidental, I think people need to be better informed. The major issue with acetaminophen is that it is present as an active ingredient in many, many multi-drug medications, which people often don't realize. So an overdose can occur if, for example, a parent who has already given their child a Tylenol to get their fever down also gives them a dose of cough syrup - each alone at the recommended dose, but it adds up. (Children are at a greater risk of overdose on anything, because toxic dosage is relative to body size, and kids are small.)

So yes, acetaminophen is a great drug and relatively safe if you know how much you are taking. Always check the active ingredients on any medicine you take, especially if you're taking multiple things at once. And for acetaminophen especially, don't take more than the recommended dose at once, don't take more than the maximum dose per day, and wait at least 4 hours between doses - even if the effect has worn off. Don't push it!

Every time I see another ibuprofen post on this site I'm like STOP

STOP

Stop.

Take that after a meal. Take it with a big glass of water. Don't take it on an empty stomach EVER. Don't take it with alcohol. You will destroy your stomach. You will end up with an ulcer. You will vomit blood. I'm not exaggerating.

Yes, you. Yes, it will happen to cute little you. With your cute little bottle of miracles. Ibuprofen really does that to your body.

Love, an adult person over 35 who can't take NSAIDs anymore

[miserye]

i just cleaned the apt again but this time i swiffered as well and now i'm cleaning the vacuum

[bi-law]

ran out of lightener part way through re-bleaching my hair and i can't get more til wednesday 🤬