November 2009
I don’t want to be a hippy-dippy moron who ends up in the hospital because I refused to get preventative medical care and at the same time I don’t want to be among the first wave of women in history to take this drug especially when there are no research studies to prove its safety only to have my kiddo end up like the armless thalidomide babies of the 1950s... The container that holds the drug that has a priority rating for pregnant women by our government has a disclaimer that completely contradicts the notion that pregnant women should be taking this unless “clearly needed” which I interpret to mean, works in an leper-type H1N1 colony. The insert goes on to say similar things about nursing mothers and pediatric use. This isn’t some conspiracy theorist spouting wharrgarbl, this is packaging included with the product made available on the CDC website.
I’m in an episode of Sesame Street as one of the things that is not like the other. Except I’m exactly the same.
So I have been looking online all day and up until a few hours ago all I found was the normal “everything gives you cancer, please wear deodorant, har-har-har“ line.
But once I dug past Yahoo Answers and similar public sourced sites to several subscription-only online medical journal libraries and it turns out that there are several studies that have been done that show pregnant lab rats who have been exposed topically to the aluminum found in antiperspirants passing it on to their fetuses. And what is more scary is that in the fetuses it is present at a much higher ratio.
You have probably heard that the aluminum in antiperspirant deodorant is correlated to Alzheimer's disease and possibly even breast cancer. If you didn’t already know, yes, there has been a correlation drawn in multiple studies between the incidents of Alzheimer's as well as breast cancer and the amount of aluminum and certain other chemicals found in most common antiperspirant deodorants... For me personally, I have always taken the “everything gives you cancer“ line. I mean, I drink my tea with sweet-in-low, I use a cell phone, I’m from Texas. Do you know how many days a year it is over 100 down there? Enough to have no friends if you’re not coating something reliable on those pits. That is, I didn’t care too much about the risk factor, until I found I was pregnant.
Knowledge is power but ignorance is bliss.
Using the word “normal” more than three times in one sentence makes you feel like you are anything but.
The morning sickness I experienced for the first four to five months of my pregnancy I would equate with the worst food poisoning I have ever had... or being possessed.
