You Must Have It In Your Bag! If You Wipe Your Hands With It, You Will Eat Poison!

When it is not convenient to use water, wet wipes become the first choice for cleaning tools.

Can you really guarantee hygiene? There have been rumors on the Internet recently: "wipes contain low toxic chemical solvents" propylene glycol ". After eating with wet wipes, the toxic substances will enter the body with the intestines, which is equivalent to eating poison.

Is this true?

Miss Li often wipes her hands with a wet towel, but the child has no idea.

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"Children start to have long teeth, often drooling, and like sucking their fingers, so I put the wet towel around my hand for a long time, so I can wash his hands at any time, so that even if he sucks his fingers, there will be no bacteria, but I do not expect that the residual chemicals in wet paper towel after his hand washing will make the child suffer from gastroenteritis and continue to pull the stomach for 3 days."

Recalled the first two months of the child had gastroenteritis, Miss Lee in Guangzhou still lingering fear.

Later, take the baby to the hospital for examination. The doctor said that in the future, try not to wipe the baby's hands with wet paper towels. The baby's stomach and intestines are out of order. It may be because they have just wiped their hands with wet paper towels and then put them in their mouths. The chemicals in wet paper towel are left on the hands and sucked into the belly of the babies, causing the children's stomach problems.

Miss Li said, now do not use wet paper towel to wipe the child's hands, go out to install a pot of water, ready to wash their children's hands.

Most wipes contain propylene glycol.

Many wipes contain chemical solvents.

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Wet wipes are distinguished in terms of function, flavor and suitable crowd. Some are special for infants, some for hand, and others for cleaning electrical screens.

However, most of the wet towel components contain propylene glycol, but do not contain a wet towel containing propylene glycol, and also contain other toxic disinfectant preservative chemicals, such as benzofilamine.

Propylene glycol is a colorless, viscous, stable absorbent liquid, almost tasteless, odorless, flammable. It is a low toxic chemical agent. Because of its low toxicity, it is not only used in wet wipes, but also used as a solvent for spices and edible pigments in the food industry. At the same time, propylene glycol is used as a mixture of solvents, preservatives, ointments, vitamins, penicillin and other solvents in the pharmaceutical industry.

Doctor: excessive long-term use can cause skin damage.

Although propylene glycol is volatile, there will still be residual. Therefore, after using wipes and eating hands, the residual propylene glycol will have a negative effect on human health as food enters the human body.

"Propylene glycol is widely used in wipes and cosmetics. It has moisturizing, antiseptic, antibacterial effects and low toxicity. Therefore, it has certain stimulation on skin."

Hao, director of Department of Dermatology, Jilin College of traditional Chinese medicine, said that propylene glycol had low toxicity. About 1%-5% of people had skin tingling and burning sensation when using products containing propylene glycol.

Although its permeability to the skin is strong, at the same time, propylene glycol also has the characteristics of volatilization. If the use of wet wipes, cosmetics and other items to add the dosage of propylene glycol meets the requirements of the standard, it is not very irritating and usually can be used safely. But it should be noted that the skin of children is tender and delicate, and the use of a wet towel containing propylene glycol will be more irritating to the skin, easy to damage the cell membrane, make the skin dry and cause dermatitis, so children need to be diluted and used again.

In addition, although propylene glycol is volatile, there will still be residual. Therefore, when using wet wipes to wipe your hands, you will eat again. The propylene glycol remaining on your hands will have a negative effect on human health as food enters the body. It will accumulate in the body and weaken the immune system. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that "eating with a wet towel is equivalent to eating poison".

It can be seen that the wet towel contains a wide range of propylene glycol, the use of wipes and hands after eating is equal to the idea of eating poison has a certain reason.

Experts suggest that propylene glycol is low toxic and should not be used for a long time.