http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/hairband.asp
USED condoms???
You make the call.
This is so gross...
(and I just put my hair up for the day)...
XOXO
Me
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
© 2006-2015
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
© 2006-2015
HIV does not live on a surface for that long. Neither do all the other "bacterias and viruses" they're talking about. There is a huge debate as to whether or not viruses and bacteria are considered "living" because they cannot live outside their host. What they're saying is incredibly gross, but there is no need to start spreading panic either. One has enough to worry about in the course of their day, without making stuff up.
ReplyDeleteI didn't write the darned thing Silly Girl.
ReplyDeleteBut they did write the following:
"because they still might harbor certain bacteria and virues"
A dermatologist then went on to say this:
"People could be infected with AIDS, genital warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while weaving their hair into plaits or buns."
You are correct in saying that we all have enough to worry about...
But the advice from the article and the dermatologist are enough for me to keep this crap out of my mouth anyway.
XOXO
Me
Gross and I don't use condoms. BTW, what are they anyway?
ReplyDeletep.s. i know what they are...
another good reason not to buy if it says..."Made in China".....as if the lead paint on our toys wasnt enough.
ReplyDeleteAnna, I know you didn't write this!!! :) I'm just trying to relieve your fears. Here's some info from the CDC.
ReplyDeleteThe best answer I have found for this question is from a CDC pamphlet, from which I extracted the following information:
HIV in the Environment
Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. (See below, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have showned that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV- infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero.
Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have alarmed people unnecessarily. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to determine specific personal risk of infection because 1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature, and 2) no one has been identified with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface; Additionally, since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
HIV is sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and the presence of oxygen. One place that HIV has been know to survive in is drug injection syringes since these are airtight and often contain blood from the injector.
YARRRRRGH!
ReplyDeleteIck.
UGH!
GROSS anyway...
Now go check your hairties!!!
Yay for very short hair.
ReplyDeleteStill...GROSS!!
Definitely gross
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting here wondering where the band in my hair came from!