BLEACH AND DIE OF SKIN CANCER EVENTUALLY LIKE BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING OF IN JAMAICA!
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id="attachment_1838" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="IF YOU NEED
AN OPERATION THE DOCTORS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEW YOUR SKIN UP AGAIN
BECAUSE THESE CHEMICALS DESTROY YOUR SKIN FOREVER!"]
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THIS SOUTH AFRICAN BROTHER AND SISTER ARE REGRETTING BLEACHING NOW!
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id="attachment_1835" align="alignnone" width="232" caption="YOUR SKIN
WILL REACT BADLY TO THE STRONG CHEMICALS IN THESE BLEACHING CREAMS AND
WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!"]
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BLEACH AND BECOME A MONSTER LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON!
FROM: blacknet.co.uk
Jamaica warns of skin bleaching risk
Chemical
skin lightening has become so popular among young people in Jamaica
that health officials launched a campaign to teach them about the
dangers. The campaign, Don’t Kill the Skin, will begin next month. “Skin
bleaching has become a fast and risky way for young men and women to
become beautiful,” Horace Dalley told a group of children at a Kingston
library. The focus will be on products that contain hydroquinone, a
substance that reduces the melanin growth in the skin, Dalley said.
Don’t kill the skin campaign targets illegal bleaching products Don’t kill the skin campaign targets illegal bleaching products.
Neprosone
Gel, Hyprogel, Dermo Gel Plus and Movate Cream are just some of the
illegal products used by Jamaicans to bleach their skin which the
Ministry of Health will seek to keep off of the street once its “Don’t
Kill the Skin” campaign gets underway next month.
Health
Minister Horace Dalley said under the islandwide campaign, slated to
last for five months, the Standards and Regulations Division will
increase its inspection of businesses and individual vendors to
confiscate illegal pharmaceutical items. Dr Clive Anderson, consultant
dermatologist and venereologist at Nuttall Medical Centre, greets
Patricia Eves-McKenzie, a counsellor at the University of Technology,
during an Educational Lecture at the Tom Redcam Library in Kingston
titled ‘Bleachers Beware’. Valerie Germaine, acting director of the
Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Affairs Branch of the Standards and
Regulation Division in the Ministry of Health, lookson. (Photos:
Garfield Robinson)
“If
unaddressed, skin bleaching may soon amount to a health crisis of
serious proportion, as many dermatologists are already reporting that
some patients seek help far too late to reverse the damage already done
to the skin,” Dalley said in message read at an educational lecture
entitled ‘Bleachers Beware’, at the Tom Redcam Library in Kingston last
Thursday. The lecture is also a component of the campaign.
Dalley
added that the lecture series and the upcoming public fora are critical
to increase awareness about the dangers of skin bleaching and how to
identify harmful pharmaceutical products on the market.
“Dermatologists
have pointed out that most bleaching creams contain Hydroquinone, a
chemical available only by prescription in Europe and closely regulated
in the United States,” he said. “. Prolonged use of creams containing
Hydroquinone stops the production of melanin, a natural pigment that
protects the skin from the sun, as well as increases the likelihood of
cancers.” Some of the products used by Jamaicans to bleach their skin
that the health ministry says are illegal.
Dr
Clive Anderson, consultant dermatologist and venereologist at Nuttall
Medical Centre, explained that bleaching the skin attacks the pigment
and is the single most destructive act that can be done to the skin. He
disclosed that persons use these creams on the entire body, including
the genital areas, which may, over time, cause skin cancer.
“When
the skin is damaged it does not perform the protective function it is
supposed to, so you can easily get an infection,” said Dr Anderson. “It
is very worrying, because a lot of persons know that they are doing
severe damage to the skin and persist in it. Some of this damage is
reversible; a lot of it is not reversible. We need to realise that when
we use these products, we are doing our skin immeasurable harm. There is
no advantage to lightening our skin colour and at the same time
damaging our skin. Beautiful skin really is healthy skin, whatever the
colour.”
Dr Anderson also
explained that most bleaching creams contain steroids, which absorb into
the bloodstream. He said if used by pregnant and nursing women, the
creams can sometimes result in retarded growth of the foetus or infant.
Currently,
bleaching creams are easily accessible in Jamaica, especially from
street vendors in downtown Kingston and Spanish Town.
Valerie
Germaine, acting director of the Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Affairs
Branch of the Standards and Regulation Division in the Ministry of
Health, said these products are not approved by the Ministry of Health
as they are in direct breach of the Food and Drug Act.
Germaine
said under the Food and Drug Act, sales and distribution of illegal
prescription drugs can attract a fine of $60,000 per offence or
imprisonment. She also warned that persons found in possession of these
illegal products with no means of explaining how they obtained them, are
in breach of the Act and can be fined or imprisoned as well.
Last
year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on
over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, saying possible
health risks cannot justify their being sold without a prescription.
Germaine said the ministry has been able to confiscate some of these illegal drugs, which are also sold in wholesales.
“We
are currently in the process of tracing the origin of these products
with the assistance of the Jamaica Constabulary Force,” she said.
But
even as the ministry moves to clamp down on the illegal products,
Germaine said persons are also using home remedies to bleach their skin.
“There are several combinations, including curry powder, cornmeal, toothpaste and bleach,” she said. “This is very dangerous.”
And
despite the fact that the initial effects of using bleaching cream are
normally favourable, Germaine warned that there may be internal adverse
effects from using these products.
“Your
liver could be damaged and you are not aware,” she said. “While all may
seem well for some persons, there are many persons that may be
suffering from conditions caused by these products.”
The effects of the use of products containing steroids to bleach the skin include:
. Increased risk in skin cancer
. Thinning of the skin
. Irreversible stretch marks
. Easy bruising and tearing of the skin
. Susceptibility to infection
. Delayed wound healing
. Hyperpigmentation
Hyperpigmentation
is where the skin does not return to its original colour after
prolonged bleaching but actually becomes darker than what it was in the
beginning.
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