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Ars Technica is reporting on a story where the CDC report that a Homeopathic “healing bracelet” caused lead poisoning in a infant girl
[...] during a routine health screening. Healthcare workers found that the baby was anemic and had a blood lead level of 41 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL). While no level of lead is known to be safe, the CDC recommends health interventions when a child’s blood lead level reaches 5 μg/dL.
[...] The authorities subsequently homed in on the bracelet, a homemade “homeopathic magnetic hematite healing bracelet.” The baby’s parents said they bought it from an artisan at a local fair and gave it to the baby to wear and mouth to ease teething pain. Small spacer beads on the bracelet (shown) tested positive for lead at a level of 17,000 parts-per-million. The Consumer Product Commission in 2010 set the allowable limit of lead in products intended for children at 100 parts-per-million.
The authors of the report—Drs. Patricia Garcia and Jennifer Haile, lead treatment specialists at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center—noted that the bracelet had no warnings or branding. They added that they couldn’t get the fair’s vendor information and were unable to track down the bracelet’s maker.
Also at Live Science
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:15AM (9 children)
Homeopathy is about diluting something in a certain way so you supposedly take microdoses or get some benefit from the solvent previously containing an active compound. It doesn't seem possible for a bracelet to have anything to do with this? Is any quack thing being labeled homeopathy now?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:35AM (2 children)
If its advertised on TV, its quack. So far, I have seen no exceptions to this postulate.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday September 04 2017, @08:02AM (1 child)
I saw an ad for a politician.
Looks like you may be right.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday September 04 2017, @01:33PM
Karl Popper wants a word.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @08:01AM
The bracelet contains trace amounts of homeopathy.
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Monday September 04 2017, @11:55AM
They threw a bracelet into the sea, then scooped out a cup of water. They must of miscalculated and diluted the bracelet too far, giving the kid a super potent dose of bracelet, overdosing on the homeopathy.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday September 04 2017, @01:22PM (3 children)
So not only have you failed to read TFA, you've failed to read the preceding comments in the thread.
The lead was from negligence, not from homeopathic 'ingredients'. The moron that made the bracelet had no idea that their solder contained lead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @02:49PM
So if I read TFA it will explain how the active ingredient in a bracelet was diluted?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @02:58PM
I read both TFAs and even searched for "homeopathic bracelet", there is no explanation anywhere about what a bracelet could have to do with homeopathy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:02AM
The lead was in beads, not in solder. Tin-lead solder is 37% lead, or 370,000 ppm.