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Environmental Poisoning in
Our Schools
Pest control in schools is for the most
part not regulated and what regulation there is varies from district
to district. That being the case, have you checked to see how
your child’s school uses pesticides and herbicides? Have
you asked them when they plan to spray?
Here are some examples that I have run
across as to poisoning caused At school and home:
* In February of 1989 first grader Michael
Storey was hospitalized after swallowing granules of disulfoton,
a highly toxic insecticide used to control aphids and mites.
Pest control operators had buried the granules under a blanket
of snow around Maple trees at the Yakima, Washington school.
After the snow melted nine days later, the granules surfaced.
Disulfoton, whether inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the
skin, Can cause a wide range of problems from blurred vision
to convulsions And comma.
*From September 1992 to spring 1993, children
attending Cutten Elementary school in Humboldt, California suffered
from chronic headaches, nausea,rashes and fatigue. This was afer
Dursban was applied to the grounds in the fall to control Termites.
Dursban is an organophosphate and these disrupt normal nerve
transmission in insects and can certainly cause neurological
problems in people.
* A 1995 study published in the American
Journal of Public Health found a four-fold increase in the risk
of soft tissue sarcoma in children living in homes whose yards
were treated with pesticides. The study also associated the use
of pest strips with leukemia.
Have you ever considered that some of your
child “catching a bug” at school is really pesticide
or chemical over exposure? Which we could calla poisoning of
the system. Here are things to watch for:
Toxic poisoning has been known to cause
runny nose, watery and itchy eyes, vomiting, digestive disorders,
sore throat, difficulty breathing, stuffy sinuses, aches in the
joints and muscles, headaches, fatigue and So on. Same kind of
things you might think was caused by a “bug”.
The other thing I see is the new or remodeled
rooms or carpets that children are exposed to at the beginning
of a school year or at home any time of the year.. All of this
contains chemicals that are out gassed for many months.
Please phone your school and find out what
they use. Ask to be alerted before anything is used on a regular
schedule or a one time situation. Find out if your child is to
be put in a new room or a room with a new Carpet. By working
around these things, you can save your child months, if not years
of illness caused by a decreased immunity brought on by these
type of exposures. _______________________________________________
Jeannie Crabtree C.Ac. shares health tips that you can use today
in her Health
newsletter and Alternative
health blog.
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