I believe punctal plugs for dry eyes are made of silicone as are most catheters. They don't use latex anymore, as guess what....the more people get exposed to latex the more prone they become to latex 'allergy' which is....an autoimmune reaction.

I assisted my daughter with a paper on PFOA, teflon. It is also very dangerous, fumes from cooking will kill a bird in the same room. It will soon be voluntarily withdrawn however, until then, they are marketing it like crazy, to get rid of their stocks of it. We are full of PFOAs, so are polar bears and they don't cook with teflon.

The more we consume, the more we expose ourselves. Buying less, using less, even taking less drugs and having fewer procedures.....and going more natural is better. Everything we do has to be weighed for risk versus benefit.

Our environment is full of junk.

When I got my night splints, the OT put on foam, and then told me not to use them without stockinette, as the foam was 'bad stuff' to expose skin to.

You can't stop the autoimmune reaction from occuring as long as you stay exposed and that exposure may be very minimal and occult.

Maybe someday they will figure out how to undo the damage.

The amount of synthetic chemicals we are exposed to is mind boggling.