What if straightening your hair wasn’t so trivial? For Yahoo, Dr. Christian Recchia warned of the unknown danger of hair straightening (with chemicals), a danger on which we do not do enough prevention.
It is well known, those who have curly hair often want to have straight hair like chopsticks. But be careful with smoothing. For Yahoo, Dr. Christian Recchia warned of the unknown danger of hair straightening (with chemicals), a danger on which we do not do enough prevention.
“Women who straighten their hair more than four times a year have three times the risk of uterine cancer”, he said while explaining the reason. Concretely, “these chemicals immediately pass from the hair to the blood and the toxicology is recurrent. It is part of endocrine diseases, environmental toxicology”. He therefore calls on women who engage in this type of practice to be extremely vigilant.
Take a smear regularly
As he recalls, cervical cancer can be diagnosed very quickly. Some signals can already put the chip in the ear, especially on the genetic level. “When you have a mother or grandmother who has had uterine cancer, you obviously need to have a diagnosis at the gynecologist every 8 to 14 months maximum”. And even more regularly if you straighten your hair, once a year mandatory.
Each year, nearly 3,000 women develop cervical cancer and 1,000 women die from it. It is attributable in the vast majority of cases to a persistent infection with a high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV), a very common infection, transmitted by sexual contact.
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