Health+Dangers

The studies of the effects of PFOA cause a concern for human health because overexposure to PFOA can affect membrane fluidity, decreased birth weight, head circumference of infants, longer gestational periods, infertility, and is linked to obesity and cancer. Also Teflon, which has the chemical PFOA in it, creates flu-like symptoms such as, headaches, fevers and nausea. PFOA also carries affects to the immune system, brain function, the metabolism, and liver. Although there is still much research to come from PFOA, recent studies have shown that PFOA can act as a fatty acid, and insert itself in binding sites and in processes normally involving fatty acid transport, storage and metabolism causing harm to the body.