{"id":170,"date":"2005-07-19T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2005-07-19T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:47:00","slug":"public-health-danger-in-the-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/19\/public-health-danger-in-the-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Danger In The Shower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest University School of Medicine is reporting that Manganese (Mn) may be giving 8.7 million people brain damage from showers. If there&#8217;s enough Mn in the water, they say a 10 minute shower can do damage after it&#8217;s inhaled through aerosolized water (aka steam).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manganese (Mn) is an essential trace element but is neurotoxic at high doses. Showering with Mn-laden water has never been evaluated as a central nervous system (CNS) delivery vector for Mn, even though intranasally administered Mn in laboratory animals circumvents the blood\u2013brain barrier and passes directly into the brain via olfactory pathways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Long-term shower exposure to Mn-laden water may pose a significant risk for CNS neurotoxicity via olfactory uptake in up to 8.7 million Americans. If our results are confirmed, regulatory agencies must rethink existing Mn drinking water standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6WN2-4G7GFXM-1&amp;_user=10&amp;_handle=V-WA-A-W-VA-MsSAYWA-UUW-U-AAWVWCCVWB-AAWAYBZWWB-WBAEEWWCE-VA-U&amp;_fmt=summary&amp;_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2005&amp;_rdoc=28&amp;_orig=browse&amp;_srch=%23toc%236950%232005%23999349996%23601059!&amp;_cdi=6950&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=45e2c891f72a42789232b25596c6c8ba\">Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest University School of Medicine is reporting that Manganese (Mn) may be giving 8.7 million people brain damage from showers. If there&#8217;s enough Mn in the water, they say a 10 minute shower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}