That’s assuming you could somehow stop new microplastic from entering the body
I mean, there is the argument that if they bioaccumulate in the blood, it’s worth removing periodically even if it doesn’t stop new intake
Just donate blood. Skip the infection risk.
I’m not donating my blood plastic for free!
Oh great, now I have to worry about DuPont and Dow coming to repo my blood.
I’ve got an idea for an opera…
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i mean, as part of my job, i routinely take area hospitals medical grade leeches. it’s not like they ever stopped being used by doctors.
Why would you use a leech instead of a needle or something? What are they for
Not OP, but apparently they’re useful for when you want a continuous, slow drain of blood. The ones they breed for hospitals don’t carry disease, so you can just kinda plonk it onto the spot that you want blood out of, and replace it when it gets full
Wait until you find out what they still use maggots for…
what the fuck? why do they use that?
They’re really good at eating dead rotting flesh?
like dead body’s?
Nope:
Maggot therapy involves the use of maggots of the green-bottle fly, which are introduced into a wound to remove necrotic, sloughy and/or infected tissue. Maggots can also be used to maintain a clean wound after debridement if a particular wound is considered prone to re-sloughing.
Doctors and tissue viability specialists who have found that maggots are able to cleanse wounds much more rapidly than conventional dressings have reintroduced the technique into modern medicine.
They physically feed on dead tissue and release special chemicals into the wound that break down dead tissue into a liquid form that the maggot can easily remove and digest. The feeding maggot also takes up bacteria, during this process, which are then destroyed within their gut. It is an effective process that the larvae can often clean a wound within a few days.
does it tickle when they eat you
Amputation sites I think? The suction attracts blood flow to the area and supports healing/retention of blood vessels… I think. Neither one of us clearly can be bothered googling but that’s what I recall…
google makes things too easy. great thinks were thunked back in the day where people had nothing but their own minds to consult.
And bad thunks are thinked just as much now as then. Truly the worst of times
For skin grafts after burns; the leeches’ saliva has anticoagulants that helps blood flow through the microvasculature (tiny blood vessels) of the area. This helps promote growth of new blood vessels, as well as improve the health of the current blood vessels in the area.
TLDR: Helps tiny blood vessels in skin grafts (and other procedures), reduces failure of said skin grafts
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Makes me genuinely wonder… I’ve donated blood for like 15 times now – does that make my current blood less saturated with microplastics than if I hadn’t?
No, because you eat and drink more microplastics to replenish yourself.
Donate 100% of blood, then fast. You’ll be microplastic free for the rest of your life!
Can anybody tell me why this is a bad idea
That’s animal cruelty. (Feeding plastic-laden blood to leaches)
Somehow I don’t think they’d mind too much, provided you give them a nice leech habitat.
Until Socraleech comes along and they force him to suck hemlock.
The food you consume to produce the blood also has micro plastic. Nothing changes.
Yeah buts it’s fresh micro plastic and not this stall stuff I’ve had in me for years.
This is why we donate blood.
This would be a powerful Red Cross ad.
Lower your microplastics count. Donate blood so you can make more.
