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Melamine
China milk poisoning incidents make everyone afraid to look at the daily news report. The milk powder involving milk and infant formula, and other food materials and components, adulterated with melamine. Everyday, the reports are changing and show that China milk poisoning cases rise. The poisonous milk is the milk powder that mixed with Melamine. Uses of melamine: used in commercial and industrial plastics, such as eating utensils and laminates, whiteboard wall paneling, flooring.
Why is Melamine added in milk powder?
What happens when Melamine is digested? Melamine remains inside the kidney. It forms into stones blocking the tubes. Pain will be eminent and person cannot urinate. Kidney will then swell.
Although surgery can remove the stones, but it will cause irreversible kidney damage. It can lead to loss of kidney function and will require kidney dialysis or lead to death because of uremia. Dialysis should be called "blood washing"; it is filtering all of the body's blood into the machine and then go back to the body.
The whole process takes 4 hours and it is necessary to dialysis once for every 3 days for the rest of your life.
Dialysis centre
The case is more serious in babies because their kidney are very small and they drink a lot of milk powder.
Here is a baby undergoing dialysis
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