Jan/090
The risks of lightening creams
It was launched by a group of British doctors a warning regarding the use of bleaching creams on the market leaked. These preparations would indeed, as the British trials, which are responsible for the onset of various health problems including the syndrome of Cushing, a rare but serious disease that affects mainly women. Hammersmith Hospital in London, doctors, thanks to the examination of several cases, have conducted research, published in the authoritative medical journal Lancet, which denounced the widespread illegal preparations to lighten the skin and their role in severe irritation and drastic hormonal imbalances.
The most striking case is that of a young twenty-eight of those who admitted they had used for seven years of a whitening cream but not purchased in a pharmacy in a small shop not further identified. Currently she is, according to doctors, who suffers from Cushing’s Syndromes, and thus have developed a serious hormonal imbalance that besides having done buy thirteen kilograms and have caused the bruising and hair on the back and face, has cost possibility of becoming a mother, making it infertile. The creams contain accused Hidrochinone fact, a molecule depigmenting whose use is banned for cosmetic purposes and steroids.
It would have been the high level of steroid hormones to cause Cushing’s syndrome in women. But according to dermatologist Milan Riccarda Serri the risk of developing this syndrome is linked more to the use of cortisone, the syndrome is indeed caused by an excessive production of cortisol, than to Hidrochinone which would entail no risk hormone. The molecule bleaching because although prohibited purposes cosmetic is used in pharmaceutical products. Tricia Tan and Tony Goldstone, who coordinated the research, stressed that the illegal market of these preparations fruit in Britain alone millions of pounds a year and that patients are often completely unaware of the dangers.