asking about harmness of chemical

[specialone0812]

i bought two product from a local fish store to fix the fungus and some white spots on my cichlids, but when i looked on the label of those bottles, they stated that the chemical in those bottle may cause cancer......? is it dangerous when we use those? and how does that chemical can affect human????

[Hanson77]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

You might want to PM Fishlady, she is our resident nurse here on the Box.  She could probably do a little research as to the effects of a certain chemical to humans.

[PhishPhreek]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

Don't drink out of your fish tank.  




use the chemical name in your search engine and look for the MSDS
that will tell you everything you didn't want to know or were afraid to ask      

[Zulaab]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

Most of the fish medicines are medications that if you engorged yourself with, they would be harmful.

[eklikewhoa]

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I find most of those warning labels are usually directed towards californians......

[Mzungu]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

What are the names of the two products?

[CichlidFan]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

Welcome to the Houston Fish Box, and I hope you found the answers you where looking for.

CF

[imagirlgeek]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

If it says something like "The chemicals in the product have been found to cause cancer in the state of California", or something like that, it's probably labeled due to Prop 65.  Prop 65 requires that anything that may cause cancer be listed and labeled in California.

I really wouldn't worry about it too much.  Here's a link to the list of chemicals that cause cancer in Cali.  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop6...ngle120806.pdf

How often do you put gas in your car?  Unleaded gasoline is also on the list.  I'm pretty sure I could check the labels on most everything in my house and find these chemicals make up a part of most of the cleaning products/medications I use....so I really wouldn't be worried if I were you.

[fishlady]

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you wouldn't want to have your hands soaking in these chemicals for a long period of time.....they would affect you more so if your immune system was comprimised such as with disease process....HIV, cirrhosis of the liver, ect...... if your immune system is of the norm then your risk factor is lowered to a 1% chance in 4 million that you would be affected by them. But with warnings also comes common sense....sort of like when your child is immunized with a live virus such as MMR or oral polio vaccine and you have someone in your household that has the above listed or cancer then you must not have them around that individual for they can contract the virus from respiratory secretions as well as feces and urine from diaper changes.....so don't let the label warnings frighten you.....just use common sense when it comes to the exposure factors.....as girlgeek says....even gasoline is listed as a cancer causing agent.....but if your fish are in need then by all means treat them....

fishlady...aka
L Mitchell R.N.
infectious disease specialist

[specialone0812]

Re: asking about harmness of chemical

thanks for you all....im fine now with those chemical.....and i can give my fish better care...thanks

[djmatthewblack]

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I am more worried about my fish getting cancer than myself.  I am like Deuce Bigalow pouring Fiji water into my fish tank while I drink the dirty bathroom tap water.  Course Fiji is bottled in a plastic that may contain Bisphenol A and so I might actually be killing my fish that way.  Breathing air can cause cancer, I am glad my fish breathes water, which is cleaner than my apt. right now.

But seriously, I wouldn't drink any of the fish meds.  You might get cancer, and whether you blame that on the smoking or the drinking fish meds, you might die.