In a study of 102 people, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a common plastic, was found in nearly all blood samples, and measurable amounts were present in 14 of them at an average concentration of 494...
Mechanism
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PVC gets into your blood because tiny pieces of it break off from everyday plastics, get breathed in or swallowed, and slip through your lungs or gut into your bloodstream. Once there, they don’t break down easily, so they stick around.
Most probable mechanism
Tiny pieces of PVC from everyday plastics enter the body when we breathe in dust or swallow food and water contaminated with plastic particles, and these particles pass through the lungs or gut into the blood.
Microscopic PVC particles are released from consumer products through wear and degradation, becoming airborne or contaminating food and water supplies.
These particles are inhaled into the lungs or ingested through the gastrointestinal tract, where they cross epithelial barriers due to their small size.
Once across the barrier, PVC particles enter the systemic circulation and persist in the bloodstream due to their chemical stability and resistance to metabolic breakdown.
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