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BLEACH AND DIE!- NIGERIA IS LEADING AFRICA IN THIS ANTI-BLACK PRACTICE AND YORUBAS NO DOUBT OUR THE TOP BLEACHERS IN NIGERIA!-STOP THIS RACIAL SUICIDE!- BE PROUD OF THE BLACK SKIN GOD PUT YOU IN!-FROM THE TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER,NIGERIA!

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Bleaching and communicable diseases

Written by Dr. Abiodun Adeoye
Saturday, 09 February 2013 12:04

If there is anything that has given me concern of late, it is the rate at which young and old, poor and rich people of African descent, especially Nigerians, engage in skin bleaching.

I once attended a church service where there was visible move of the Holy Spirit with powerful sermon and many souls I would say were won into the kingdom of God. But I was quite astonished to see the telltale signs of skin bleaching on the man of God. I want to believe he is not aware of the side effects of bleaching creams and soap. Or how else would we explain even some of our ‘respected fathers’ in high places who grossly engage in skin bleaching?

If they can be pardoned for lack of awareness of its side effect, can the same hold for actors and actresses in Nollywood? These are people that are supposed to be role models for young generation. After much thought, I feel we should all join hands to tackle this menace. I have never seen a white man who wants to change to dark skin. Is it inferiority complex or lack of adequate information? Yes, in certain communities light skin is associated with success, prestige and envy as women commonly turn to skin lightening products to achieve and maintain their desired complexion.

For example in India, the appeal of fair skin is deeply rooted in the nation’s culture and the caste system. Higher caste members traditionally had lighter skin and were less likely to be involved in manual work. This was shown to account for high rate of skin bleaching among the low caste especially the women. This is not the case in Nigeria, yet World Heart Organisation (WHO) ranked Nigeria first among nations endangering their lives with mercury-containing bleaching cream and soap. They have revealed that over 77 per cent of Nigerians use such products on a regular basis. We are followed by Togo with 59 per cent; South Africa, 35 per cent; and Mali, 25 per cent.

I encourage people in this category to please stop this habit. Skin bleaching contributes immensely to the burden of non-communicable diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, kidney diseases and cancers, just to mention a few. Worldwide, non-communicable diseases account for more than 70 per cent of deaths.

While the infectious or communicable diseases are being wiped out in developed and some developing countries, same is not true in Nigeria. This is a double burden on our economy. The fight against polio and HIV is enough headache; don’t add more to it by using bleaching cream and soap. The dangers of bleaching creams and soap are many.

Dangers of bleaching agents
The side effect depends on the ingredients contained in the cream or soap. Unfortunately, most of the manufacturers don’t give accurate information about the percentages of these dangerous ingredients. Hydroquinone is the commonly used active ingredient in many of these bleaching creams. This chemical works by stopping the production of melanin, which is responsible for the darkening of a person’s skin tone. Hydroquinone, when used in right proportion for limited time frame, may not be harmful. According to the US Food and Drug Agency, only two per cent content is allowed but most products have up to four per cent or even more. When used on long term basis, side effects set in. Exogenous ochronosis is a well known effect of prolong use. There is a paradoxical darkening of the skin which follows an initial skin lightening. Wherever I see people in this category, I appreciate absolute ignorance in them. Who will want to get a temporary light skin and later lapse into terrible scaly and thick dark skin with bumps thatare worse than his or her initial black and shine? Instead of allowing ridicule by the community, kindly stop the use of hydroquinone today.

Steroids are another culprit in the bleaching creams and other formulations. Bleaching creams like Dermovate, Movate, Top Gel, and Nuvotone have been found to contain the extremely potent steroids betamethasone and clobetasol propionate. Again, these are extremely cheap and available in all corners over the counter.

A researcher states that “with high-potency topical steroids used for a long time, you can get suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system. And with that suppression, you can get these endocrine problems like Cushing’s disease and diabetes.”

Black men and women have an increased risk of developing diabetes, and topical steroids would heighten their risk dramatically. With Cushing’s disease, there is excessive weight gain; rounded moon shape faces with reduced immunity. All sorts of infections are reported. Hypertension, stroke or depressions can occur. In case of accidents, there is poor wound healing and under stress, they bleed into the skin and brain.

Another ingredient is inorganic mercury which is injurious to the whole body system. According to WHO, once the chemicals get absorbed into the skin and enter the blood stream, the complications are worse. The effects include kidney damage, reduction in the skin resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, anxiety, depression, psychosis and peripheral neuropathy. Others are skin rashes, swelling of the skin, irritation, seizures, numbness, pain tremors and memory loss.

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JAMAICIAN HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN ON BLEACHING!:STOP DESTROYING YOUR BEAUTIFUL BLACK SKIN COLOR!

By Yeye Akilimali Funua Olade

BLEACH AND DIE OF SKIN CANCER EVENTUALLY LIKE BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING OF IN JAMAICA!

IF YOU NEED AN OPERATION THE DOCTORS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEW YOUR SKIN UP AGAIN BECAUSE THESE CHEMICALS DESTROY YOUR SKIN FOREVER!

THIS SOUTH AFRICAN BROTHER AND SISTER ARE REGRETTING BLEACHING NOW!

YOUR SKIN WILL REACT BADLY TO THE STRONG CHEMICALS IN THESE BLEACHING CREAMS AND WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

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

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