Yahoo! News - Toilet Disinfectants Hit Cancer CampaignToilet Disinfectants Hit Cancer Campaign
Fri Feb 14,10:41 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Colorful toilet disinfectants could be undermining a national campaign in Britain to make people more aware of early signs of colon cancer.
Britons are being urged -- "Don't blush, look before you flush" -- to check for any rectal bleeding which could be an indication of the disease."
But a researcher in Britain said some toilet disinfectants are making it difficult.
"The lavatory disinfectants now sold in supermarkets are mostly blue in color and change water blue, which makes looking for any blood quite difficult," Mourad Ibrahim Habib, of St James's University Hospitals in Leeds, said in a letter to the British Medical Journal.
He suggested the brightly colored products should not be used and that manufacturers could help to improve detection of the disease by developing products that change color in the presence of minor amounts of blood.
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