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| Hair coloring Leukemia Risk |
Currently hair dye is one product that is used widely in the community. From the old to the young. But did you know that hair dye can cause leukemia, or which often referred to as blood cancer?
Research in America shows that the old permanent hair dye, used in the early 1980s, the risk of causing leukemia. Existing chemicals in hair dyes that long, potency contain chemicals that cause cancer, especially for the type of blood-related cancers such as Leukemia and Multiple myeloma.
Of the 769 patients with acute leukemia were compared with 623 healthy adults, showed that men or women who use permanent hair dye 1-5 times a year, during the 15 years or more, the risk doubled for even more suffering from leukemia, compared with those who never use hair dyes.
These risks are not seen in those who use temporary hair dye (temporary). And also do not look at those who use hair dyes after 1980. Apparently the producers have changed the chemicals used for assessment of risks that can cause cancer.
Acute leukemia is a blood disorder that occurs with acute (sudden) where the number of white blood cells (leukocytes) increased leukocyte and can be found in the immature young (immature) in the blood.
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology
