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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking that a kidney dialysis machine might be able to filter out that stuff from your blood. I think the way those work is your blood goes out a tube into the machine and it filters it before sending it back to you. So you'd need filters in there that are fine enough to catch the microplastics.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think any filtering happens in dialysis, unwanted stuff just diffuses to another solution

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Correct. If there are actually micro plastics in your blood, the plastic is likely relatively small compared to a blood cell. Otherwise we would be witnessing a lot more issues with stroke/heart attacks. Any kind of filter small enough to filter out something that small would also filter out blood cells.