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Can frequent "hair coloring" cause cancer?

People who often dye their hair should pay attention to

By Egg LemmonPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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Can frequent "hair coloring" cause cancer?
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Love of beauty is human, since we were born, we will have an obsession with beauty, as a child will like to compare brightly colored toys; or to look at a beautiful brother, sister, uncle, or aunt full of good feelings; even after growing up will also be exquisite looking body perfect people, or fresh, exciting things attracted.

The birth of hair coloring is a fashion that people love to hate at the same time

And the birth of hair color is a fashion that people love and hate. On the one hand, people are addicted to the "magic" of changing hair color, and on the other hand, they have doubts about whether hair coloring will cause unhealthy conditions in the body. But whether it's about fashion or the desire for youth, hair coloring has become an indispensable part of many people's lives.

In ancient times, hair dyeing was once a trend, especially in the Sui and Tang dynasties, when social customs were more open and hair dyeing became popular. The poet Li Yuri of the Tang Dynasty lamented, "Recently, the world is light on the previous generation, good dyeing mustache thing afterlife." For some literati and scholars in the Song Dynasty, the culture of dyeing beard hair is also very prevalent.

And into modern times, the pursuit of hair color for beauty lovers remains the same, but with the development of technology, hair dyeing materials are also advancing with the times.

Over the past century or so, driven by the market, hairdressing manufacturers have developed a wide variety of hair dyes. Botanical hair dyes have been retained as the most primitive form of hair coloring, while synthetic dyes, including temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent types, can better meet people's diverse hair coloring needs.

In the modern era, the pursuit of hair color for beauty lovers remains

The main ingredients of hair dyes

The main ingredients of hair dyes are p-methamphetamine and hydrogen peroxide. The p-methamphetamine and hydrogen peroxide in hair dyes can affect blood stem cells and are recognized as carcinogens.

It can play a role in fixing the color of the hair after dyeing, but it is also a strong allergen that can cause skin allergies in people with sensitive constitutions, with contact dermatitis being the most common. If you dye your hair regularly, p-methamphetamine penetrates the hair micro dermis and can cause hair dryness, breakage, and even hair loss.

In addition to p-methamphetamine, heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic in hair dyes may also damage the function of the liver and kidneys. Some studies have shown that people who dye their hair for a long time have an increased chance of developing lymphoma up to 70% and 3.8 times more likely to develop leukemia than the average person.

The correlation between hair dye and leukemia has been widely recognized by the medical community, which often uses the term "dyed hair leukemia", and hair dye has become one of the causes of leukemia.

Is it true or false that frequent "hair coloring" may cause cancer?

The University of North Carolina and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have conducted a study on the issue of whether hair dyeing causes cancer. Before the experiment, experts randomly selected 50,000 women, in a multi-year follow-up survey.

In the 8-year-long study, they found that nearly 2,000 of the women who dyed their hair for a long time were infected with breast cancer, 1,000 women suffered from skin cancer, and more meticulous experts found that the risk of breast cancer was 20% to 28% higher for women who often dyed their hair compared with those who did not.

So the conclusion is that frequent hair coloring can indeed cause cancer

So the conclusion is that frequent hair dyeing can indeed cause cancer, and certain chemical components in hair dye can destroy the body's immune system, reduce the body's resistance and immunity, make the body unable to resist the invasion of bacteria and viruses, and increase the body's risk of disease.

According to the data report in 2021, about 37.1% of patients with breast cancer, skin cancer, skin inflammation, and leukemia have the phenomenon of long-term hair dye.

Some commercially available hair dyes contain mostly benzodiazepines, which are recognized as carcinogens and can bring powerful harm and danger to the body. The aroma released during the development of this substance also paralyzes the central nervous system, inhibits the normal function of the brain, accelerates the decline of neurons, and increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the future.

Do hairdressers often dye people's hair and get cancer?

Dyeing hair does not mean that it will cause cancer, because cancer is not inevitable, but only induced under certain conditions, and the probability of developing cancer will be much higher than normal people. Many factors affect whether a person induces cancer or not. People often think that since hair coloring may cause cancer, will people who often color their hair for others also get cancer?

Most hairdressers do not touch hair dye directly when they dye hair for customers, plus many hairdressers wear gloves when they dye hair for customers, which to a certain extent also blocks the direct contact between hair dye and skin, so relatively speaking, hairdressers do not necessarily get cancer.

However, the smell of hair dye for a long time can also be harmful. Long-term exposure to hair dye can cause some of the chemicals to combine with certain cells to cause cell cancer, and although direct contact can cause some cancers, the smell of this hair dye can also lead to a higher incidence of various diseases such as leukemia.

It is also often found that many of patients with plastic anemia and acute and chronic leukemia have a history of hair dye. Therefore, it is almost certain that hair dye is one of the causes of blood disorders. Therefore, whether you dye your hair for a long time or you often dye your hair for others, it is important to protect yourself and also try to avoid long-term hair dyeing.

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