Antiperspirant and deodorant ingredients are not associated in any way with promoting kidney disease. The kidneys play an important role in allowing the body to rid itself of things it doesn’t need. A consequence of kidney disease can be that the body struggles in this function.

One element that the body comes into contact with everyday is aluminium, which is naturally and abundantly present in food, drink and the environment generally. Generally speaking, aluminium is perfectly safe and is easily processed through the kidneys, but when someone has kidney disease their body can struggle to cope with it. It is for this reason that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforces labelling on products like oral antacids which contain large amounts of aluminium. Antiperspirant ingredients only contain a small amount of aluminium (less than 2.5% of the amount that people come into contact with every day) and as a way of raising awareness of the dangers faced by kidney disease sufferers, the FDA has recently suggested that people with kidney disease talk to their doctor before using an antiperspirant.

For further information you may like to read the link below to the fact sheet from the Northwest Kidney Centre in Washington, USA which states that “…they do not believe that antiperspirants are placing people with kidney disease at particular risk.”

Useful links:

http://www.nwkidney.org/images/website/docs/warning.pdf
http://www.nwkidney.org/home/warning.html

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