How visually attractive are the drugs you take?
This Week In The HSI Healthier Talk Community
How visually attractive are the drugs you take?
If that sounds laughable, you might get a laugh (or not) out of an HSI Healthier Talk community forum thread titled “FDA approves using pearly pigments to color pills.”
A member named George starts the thread off with an Associated Press article. In late July, the FDA gave the nod to the use of “pigments like those that give cosmetics a pearly sheen.” The so-called “pearlescent pigments” are described as “sparkly metallic, satiny and shimmery,” and they can be used “in any drugs that are swallowed, including pills, tablets and liquids.”
The AP reports that similar pigments are also used in makeup, inks and automotive paint.
And you can be certain that HSI members have a few choice comments.
Pinky: “Egads, what a totally stupid idea. Many pills already come in colors, just not pearlized. Sounds like just something else to make the meds cost more, to me.”
Ralph: “Now they will put these new versions of drugs on the TV ads and people will want ’em even more cause they look so cool. BigPharma knows how visually oriented this society is. How about if I just put my own lipstick on the drugs before I take ’em? Or maybe use that spray paint for car scratches on ’em? How much did BigPharma spend on the research to find and then develop their most brilliant idea?”
Morgan: “Would have thought that making pills look ‘pretty’ would increase the chance of small children accidentally ingesting them? What with drugging toddlers for mental health, forcing kids and teens to undergo chemo and other toxic drug therapies against their wishes, pretty coloured pills, mandatory vaccinations and fluoride in the water – by the time this latest generation grows up, how many will be capable of reproducing?”
Dawnanewday: “I have a question about the metallic stuff itself. I can just see this spilling over into metals not mentioned in this first step. I have always been leery of all these new eye makeups that are sparkled colors. What gets absorbed? What effects does it have on the skin? And where do all those glimmers go as they rub off onto clothing and hair and into the airand rub onto our kids.”
Cedarchest: “Those glimmery, sparkly eyeshadows and lipsticks used to be made to look ‘frosty’ by using fish scales rather than mica. I don’t know if that is still a practice or not. A few of my friends use mineral make-ups which contain titanium oxide and, of course, the ads for these types of make-up are telling us that this is good for the skin. ‘You can even sleep with our make-up on and it won’t hurt you at all’ is the claim by one such company. Wonder how much truth there is to that statement?”
Other topics being discussed this week in the Healthier Talk community forums include:
* Vision: Retina thickness
* General Health Topics: Coffee studies
* Heart: I just had a heart attack
* Health for Men: Erectile dysfunction
* Depression: Effects of Accutane on teenagers
* Dental: Bruxism remission?
