🚨Just touching the "receipt" can risk cancer. 🚨

👉 Check your wallet or shoulder bag bottom...How many "receipts" have accumulated? 🤔

📍 believe that the white thermal paper we receive every day after shopping, paying for gas, or withdrawing ATM doesn't just contain price figures, it's coated with a chemical called BPA (Bisphenol A), 🚨 a major hormone disturber that the medical community is worried may be linked to "cancer." 😱

Why is the small paper scary? 🤔

📍 most receipts are thermal paper. It doesn't need ink, but it uses a chemical coating on the face.

📍 the peak is here! The BPA on the receipt is not locked as tightly as plastic, but it is a "free powder," ✅ where we tapped the fingertips lightly, it immediately caught our hand, and even worse, it is...It seeps the blood through the skin!

"Alcohol gel," a helper that becomes an accelerator. 😱

📍, we spray alcohol at this time, right? Scientists have found that if our hands are wet with alcohol or just apply lotion and pick up the receipt, BPA will seep into our bodies 10-100 times faster! 😨 Because alcohol opens pores and dissolves chemicals into our skin more easily like a "freeway."

Get in there...What are you doing? 🤔

📍 when BPA enters the body, it acts as a "fake hormone"! It has a very estrogen-like structure, so that our body gets confused and takes it in place of the real hormone. The consequences are:

🔴 Cancer risk: especially hormone-sensitive cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer.

🔴 Reproductive system: may affect sperm quality and ovulation.

🔴 Child Silence: If children pick up a receipt or accidentally put it in their mouth, it can affect their development.

✨ 5 ways to "tongs" safety to yourself. ✅

We can't avoid 100% of the receipt, but we can protect ourselves:

1. Say No! If not required: Tell the employee "No receipt" or choose to receive E-Receipt through the app instead.

2. Handle as: If you really need to pick up, try to catch only the back of the paper (the non-literal side) because the chemicals are often coated on the front.

3. Do not use the mouth period: Many people are busy with their hands and hold the receipt to their mouth...This is extremely dangerous because the chemical enters the soft tissue in the mouth directly.

4. Wash your hands with soap: After keeping the receipt in place, wash your hands with soap (avoid using alcohol wash immediately after catching the receipt).

5.Separate storage zone: Do not add receipts to the bank notes in the money box, because BPA can "jump" to the bank we need to pick up.

✨ summary ✨

👉, good health really starts at the fingertips. Just adjusting the behavior of small grabs reduces the cumulative risk in the long run. 😍

# Receipt # Cancer # Carcinogen # Cancer risk # FUDA Cancer Hospital