United States: Microplastic particles were detected in nasal swabs, the small new study said.
The threads and microplastic pieces were found in the olfactory bulb which is almost somewhere located at the base of the brain, and which is in charge of the sense of smell. “Once present in this structure, there can be translocation to other regions of the brain,” said the lead study author Luís Fernando Amato-Lourenço, a postdoctoral microplastics researcher at the Free University of Berlin in an email interview.
As reported by CNN, “Translocation depends on the particle shape, whether it is fiber or fragment, size and defense mechanisms of the body”. Amato-Lourenço added that because of the size and the shape of particles they are more inclined to pass through blood-brain barrier which is a membrane in the central nervous system protecting the brain and the spinal cord from the majority of toxins, than fibers pass through microglia cells.
“This is a really interesting study,” remarked Phoebe Stapleton, an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology Rutgers University in Piscataway New Jersey and who had no involvement in the study.
“Not really, I’m not really surprised,” said Stapleton. “I really do think that plastics are going to be in every place in the body that we look. This is just more evidence. ”It is crucial to emphasis that more research is needed when it comes to the role of plastics and health and the existing evidence “is enough to give a realistic picture of these consequences,” According to Betsy Bowers, the executive director of the EPS Industry Alliance, which represents the expanded polystyrene industry.
“According to Bowers the reasons for the lack of consensus include quality assurance concerns such as definitions of nanoplastics, accuracy and reporting bias of test methods, dose-response relationships, and risk versus exposure.A growing amount of the plastic in the body.
A flurry of recent studies have discovered the microplastics and the nano plastics in the human brain tissue the testes and the penis, human blood, lung and the liver tissues, urine and the feces also the mother’s milk and the placenta.
Obviously in the first analysis to illustrate harm to the human health a march study was found in the people with the microplastics or the nanoplastics in their carotid artery tissues were twice as likely to have a heart attack and the stroke or die from any cause over the next three years than people who had none.
Microplastics are also the polymer fragments that can range from less than almost about 0.2 inch which is 5 millimeters. Anything smaller is a nanoplastic that must be measured in the billionths of a meter.
Such minuscule particles can invade the individual cells and tissues in the major organs that’s what the experts say and potentially interrupting the cellular processes and depositing the endocrine disrupting the chemical such as bisphenoIs, and other heavy metals.