Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination

by incognitojam on 1/18/2025, 12:42:46 PM with 38 comments

  • by blindriver on 1/18/2025, 1:49:27 PM

    The idea that the government settled with 3M for 2.6M is unconscionable and needs to be investigated. The paltry sum reeks of bribery and corruption.

  • by greatgib on 1/18/2025, 2:02:52 PM 

       The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people.
    Isn't it a little bit expensive just for a blood letting? Basically it should be like a blood donation where you can directly throw the extracted blood. No?

  • by Red_Comet_88 on 1/18/2025, 1:52:46 PM

    Synthetic chemistry has overall been a disaster for humanity, particularly since chemists employed the hacker ethos of "move fast and break things". Except in this case the things they broke were other people's bodies and the environment.

    Tragic to see the crazed promethean spirit possessing scientists to push forward without a single inkling of the negative consequences. Perhaps Icarus' fate is our inescapable destiny.

  • by pfdietz on 1/18/2025, 1:53:33 PM

    All this concern about PFAs is reminding me of artificial blood made with perfluorinated chemicals. It would have utterly enormous quantities of the chemicals, circulating as a microemulsion throughout the body.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_substitute

  • by Trasmatta on 1/18/2025, 1:25:42 PM

    It looks like this is for the actual island Jersey, and not New Jersey. I was pretty confused at first. People here on the East Coast call the state "Jersey" as often as we call it "New Jersey". Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York".

  • by orbisvicis on 1/18/2025, 1:45:04 PM

    Looks like some of their biggest food exports are potatoes and milk (mainly to UK/EU). I wonder if those are also contaminated.

  • by ethbr1 on 1/18/2025, 1:33:15 PM

    Prompts a couple questions.

    Are blood banks testing for levels of PFASs?

    How does one test blood for PFASs?

  • by prmph on 1/18/2025, 1:59:15 PM

    > The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year to treat 50 people.

    Interesting that the bloodletting is so expensive. I wonder what makes it so?

  • by ajdude on 1/18/2025, 4:38:49 PM

    Reminds me of this:

    Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123477

    230 points by wirelesspotat on April 22, 2022 | 208 comments

  • by r0ckarong on 1/18/2025, 1:25:59 PM

    Leeches, come get your leeches.

  • by OutOfHere on 1/18/2025, 4:30:12 PM

    Cholestyramine is a bile binder, and while it can help with some PFAS, it won't be as effective as blood removal. For most of us, the solution is regular blood donations and Organic psyllium husk powder which too is a bile binder.

  • by semking on 1/18/2025, 1:56:20 PM

    I simply cannot believe what I'm reading... :(