"Is your shower curtain killing you?" Like I didn't have enough to worry about already?!

[LaraMN]

http://www.emaxhealth.com/5/23042.html

"Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shower curtains are sold across the United States in well known retail stores... What many consumers do not know is that their rubber ducky shower curtain could be off-gassing more than 100 different kinds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These VOCs can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation; headaches; loss of coordination; nausea; and damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. Some VOCs have been known to cause cancer in humans..."



Knowing myself as I do, I suspect that if I die by shower curtain, it will not be as a result of exposure to VOC's.

[ForrestGump]

1. Nope. I've got glass shower doors.

Of course, those can potentially kill a person a lot more quickly... :scared:

[LaraMN]

4. Sliced or smothered...

I'm indifferent as to the potential manner of death relative to the type of shower enclosure.
I'll have to think on that one.

[whistler162]

10. A few years ago

we had a plastic(glass like) shower door explode in the middle of the night, WEIRD.

[SPKrazy]

2. Oh good...

I live in my hermetically sealed apartment at the freaking moment and I have one of those shower curtains.

Oh well, F it, if that's what kills me then it must be the universe's will that it happens.

:shrug: Gawdess knows I've come so much closer to dying many a time before.

Yeah, I'd probably fall and the shower curtain will suffocate me :rofl:

[LaraMN]

5. Either way, it's an undignified death.

Damn those shower curtains. I knew they possessed some seedy underbelly of malice.

[LeftyMom]

3. I never trusted that sponge.

[LaraMN]

6. Patrick's the one you need to worry about.

He's always playin' it a little too cool..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I am safe from my predatory shower curtain.

If it ever attempts to smother me by wrapping its slightly mildewed self around me, I'll survive because my cats have poked a fair number of holes in it with their claws.

I suppose I should buy a new one, but the new ones emit 100 different kinds of toxic gases.

[petronius]

8. I was glad when I saw that, actually

It means that all the real (i.e statistically significant) health risks have been identified and dealt with. If we're down to 'death by new shower curtain smell,' then it's a prety safe world...

(On the other hand, I've noticed that my rubber ducky gets a little belligerent whenever I put up new curtain; perhaps I should take him in for a checkup.)

[PermanentRevolution]

9. See, THIS is why I don't shower.

People complain about the smell, but screw them! I gotta watch out for myself!

11 years, 7 months, and 22 days and feelin' fine! Completely devoid of all human contact, but fine nonetheless!

[democracyindanger]

11. The stuff I haven't cleaned off of the curtain sure is

[sarge43]

12. Death by shower curtain

Heard at her wake, "Well, that's the way LaraMN would have wanted it."

[astral]

13. I think my shower curtain got me

When I moved into this apartment, my landlady had put up one of them super-smelly vinyl shower curtains, very strong smell, and she folded it in half and put the whole thing up in the shower stall, I knew nothing about the HAZARDS of that gawd-awful strong smell and never took it down except eventually cut off the second layer.

Shortly after I moved in my eyes went to hell on me, very sick and puffed up, scabby skin, wrinkles, could it be the shower curtain?

I don't know, but even though I've had it long enough for it to have "de-gassed" by now, I think I want to replace it with some other material.

BTW, spraying diluted vinegar on shower curtains after showering (and in the shower stall too, for that matter!) prevents mildew or mold from growing.

[Patiod]

14. Yeah, but it's helping me with my geography

My S.O. impressed me at Quizzo Wednesday night when he was able to spell (and locate) Cameroon...all from sitting on the toilet, reading the "Map of the World" shower curtain!

[Critters2]

15. LOL!! I should know a little something about fish, then,

cuz when I was growing up, we had this one

[LiberalEsto]

16. Don't forget the Luffa of Death nt