Talcum Powder Causing Ovarian Cancers?

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Looks like a lot of lawsuits going on from women who use talcum/baby powder. I've never used it as an adult, and I'm not sure my mother used it on me back in the day, I was too young to remember. :turnaround:

My sisters did use it on their babies though. Does anyone here use baby powder anymore? Full story here.


When talcum powder products are used in the ******l area, they can travel through the Fallopian tubes to the ovaries, causing irritation that could lead to ovarian cancer. Some health experts have estimated that about 10% of ovarian cancer cases and deaths from the disease in the U.S. are caused by talcum powder products.

Evidence has shown that the manufacturers of talcum powder products have known about the health risks of using talcum powder for decades. Yet despite this information, Johnson & Johnson and other companies who manufacture talcum baby powder have failed to warn consumers about the potential cancer risks they may face from using these products.
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I heard this a while ago. Seems a bit strange. I don't use baby powder but I love the smell. I do use a powder in Thailand for prickly heat and I use it just about everywhere after a shower.
 
Ameriscot said:
I heard this a while ago. Seems a bit strange. I don't use baby powder but I love the smell. I do use a powder in Thailand for prickly heat and I use it just about everywhere after a shower.
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I've wondered about that... Just how must talcum powder must one use for it to affect your ovaries? geez...
 

I remember once wondering why the girls had been so quiet for so long. So I walked down the hall and the closer that I got to the bedrooms, I began to notice the soft perfume of baby powder and a haze hanging in the air. Quietly I peeked through the slightly ajar door and there were my little girls with a dolly on the floor between them, vigorously shaking a large container of baby powder over their dolly and in the midst of a fog that hung in the air and covered everything with a layer of white powder thick enough to obscure the colours of everything in the room.

By that time, the jar was empty and I never replaced it. That was before the time of Youtube.
 
Debby said:
I remember once wondering why the girls had been so quiet for so long. So I walked down the hall and the closer that I got to the bedrooms, I began to notice the soft perfume of baby powder and a haze hanging in the air. Quietly I peeked through the slightly ajar door and there were my little girls with a dolly on the floor between them, vigorously shaking a large container of baby powder over their dolly and in the midst of a fog that hung in the air and covered everything with a layer of white powder thick enough to obscure the colours of everything in the room.

By that time, the jar was empty and I never replaced it. That was before the time of Youtube.
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Very similar memory here. Just substitute a bathroom carpet, floor and bathtube covered in white (with two girls having left from the scene). Or was that the Comet incident? So many silly memories.
 
I use copious amounts of talcum powder. I think more gets on the bathroom floor than on me. It it very invasive and there is a coating of talc on almost everything upstairs from the powder wafting through the air. My aunt won't allow it in her house I learned once when I what there to use her shower when my plumbing was on the fritz. I just like the cool, dry feeling it leaves where air doesn't circulate too much.
 

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