Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) seized this Wednesday, June 21, several shipments of contaminated makeup product, concealer ‘Essence Camouflage+ Matte’.
Pollution comes from bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, known as an opportunistic pathogen that infects people with health problems or weakened immune systems. Therefore, although healthy people may not be affected dirty makeupit is vital that they destroy them or return them to the store they purchased them from, as was well recommended AEMP.
In addition, it is important to consider that this bacterium becomes especially serious when it acquires antibiotic resistance. If it is allowed to circulate due to the composition, it may be that it takes these resistances from other bacteria and ends up affecting someone with health problems. Thus, the AEMPS notice must be taken into account. Games under consideration ODBCB, ODBCA and OCBCA. If you have them, destroy them.
Contaminated makeup is rare
In general, if the manufacturer’s instructions are followed and cosmetics are not used longer than indicated, there are usually no problems with contamination by pathogenic microorganisms.
These types of products go through a lot of testing both before and after they are sold to prevent consumer health problems. This time the warning came once has already been sold. It can happen, but it’s not the most common. The main thing is to act quickly, as it is already being done, so that contaminated makeup does not cause problems.
Bacteria that causes nightmares in hospitals
Pseudomonas aeruginosa it’s a bacterium opportunist. This means that it usually does not cause health problems, but if there is another disease or the immune system is weakened for any reason, it causes an infection that can be very serious. In particular, this may affect respiratory and urinary tractas well as tissues that penetrate through wounds.
In the first case, this can cause severe pneumonia, in the second – urinary infections, which can be complicated by kidney damage. And thirdly, sepsis, which in some cases can lead to death.
This is a very dangerous bacterium. hospitalswhere there are many patients with their weak immune systems and can provoke their opportunistic nature. Infections are treated with antibiotics; but, if he develops resistance, the situation can be fatal.
AEMPS did not say if the bacteria from contaminated makeup is persistent. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. Bacteria are able to carry out a process known as conjugation which, upon contact, allows them to exchange genes. Thus, a situation may arise in which a bacterium that is resistant to antibiotics will pass it on to bacteria found in contaminated cosmetics.
Do not panic, but if you bought this concealer, do not use it under any circumstances. For your health and the health of those around you.
Source: Hiper Textual
