Nigerian Association Of DermatologyPresident Advises Women Against UseOf Lightening Creams
Association of Dermatology, has
advised Nigerians against the use of skin
lightening cream popularly known as
`toning cream’, saying it is harmful to
our health.
Ogunbiyi gave the advice in an
interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
He said that the application of such
creams to the skin has adverse effect on
the internal organs.
She explained that whenever such
cream was applied on the skin it is
absorbed into the body damaging the
internal organs like the pancreas and
adrenal organs, among others.
The president identified adverse effect of
such practices as hypertension and
diabetes, among others, adding that
manifestation of that effect would not be
immediate but years later.
However, she advised Nigerians to desist
from such practices in the name of
beauty at the detriment of their health
and life.
Ogunbiyi stressed that a lot of people
spent huge sum of money on toning
agent at the expense of their health and
stomach.
“A lot of skin lightening agents are
extremely dangerous. People have a
wrong notion that once you apply
anything on your skin it ends on the skin.
Steroid the commonest thing people uses
to bleach today get absorbed into the
body and affect major organs like the
pancreas, adrenals and at the end such
people begin to have Hypertension,
diabetes, among others,’’ she said.
She warned that the use of such skin
lightening agent causes damages to the
skin years after and most time users do
not relate that habit to their health
challenges.
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