Mbhg1980
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Hi Ladies,
I want to get your opinions about exposure to conventional pesticide in the workplace. Are you working at a place that you know uses conventional pesticide and are you also TTC or pregnant? Do you feel this is a cause for concern?
I think this is something we don't think about, but it can impact a fetus nonetheless. I recently read a book called "More Than Genes". The jist was that even though a baby can be born free of physical birth defects, there is accumulating evidence that exposure to environmental toxins affects the way a fetus develops. The genes work together in the environment. A fetus adapts to anything that crosses the placenta, and this is gestational "programming" is permanent. So mood disorders, slight changes in IQ, predisposition to diabetes and heart disease, and even elevated risk for cancer can be caused by exposure to toxins in the womb. Factors such as the loss of a few IQ points or anxiety and depression may go unnoticed and are often thought of as purely genetic or caused by things that happen after birth, but new evidence is showing that the most formative time of life, in the womb, can influence these factors. Chemical changes in the womb can alter the way genes are expressed, and affect the person for life.
It seems we are rightly focused on nutrition, but what about the air we breathe? Things we breathe get in our blood stream and cross the placenta. Pesticide easily crosses, according to the book.
I live in Florida and work in a daycare. I see that they use conventional pesticide treatment every 3 months. It is sprayed all over the baseboards, throughout the school. They never open the windows. Further, they spray Lysol and other things pretty freely. I'm there only through this month and I'm actually skipping TTC for this month because of my concerns. (Not to mention the fact that I'm concerned for the kids there as research shows that children exposed to indoor pesticides are at a greater risk for developing leukemia.) I feel strongly about this and I'm kind of annoyed at the daycare for not using less-toxic pest control, but I don't feel comfortable saying anything since I'm a temp. I'm also annoyed that I have to be exposed to this if I am to work there and help them out. How can people worry about scrapes and cuts on a child but not this? How long will it take for my body to detox this stuff out once I leave?
I know it's easy to get neurotic, but there are also valid concerns, and a lot we don't now know but WILL know down the road. What we know about conventional pesticide exposure is pretty in-depth and alarming, especially when weighed against the new evidence that the prenatal environment is not the sort of bubble we once thought it was, but is highly vulnerable and a highly important time in development.
Here are 2 links for your consumption:
https://health.yahoo.net/rodale/PVN/pesticides-are-dumbing-down-our-kids
https://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/pesticides.html
It seems like common sense to me.
What do you think?
I want to get your opinions about exposure to conventional pesticide in the workplace. Are you working at a place that you know uses conventional pesticide and are you also TTC or pregnant? Do you feel this is a cause for concern?
I think this is something we don't think about, but it can impact a fetus nonetheless. I recently read a book called "More Than Genes". The jist was that even though a baby can be born free of physical birth defects, there is accumulating evidence that exposure to environmental toxins affects the way a fetus develops. The genes work together in the environment. A fetus adapts to anything that crosses the placenta, and this is gestational "programming" is permanent. So mood disorders, slight changes in IQ, predisposition to diabetes and heart disease, and even elevated risk for cancer can be caused by exposure to toxins in the womb. Factors such as the loss of a few IQ points or anxiety and depression may go unnoticed and are often thought of as purely genetic or caused by things that happen after birth, but new evidence is showing that the most formative time of life, in the womb, can influence these factors. Chemical changes in the womb can alter the way genes are expressed, and affect the person for life.
It seems we are rightly focused on nutrition, but what about the air we breathe? Things we breathe get in our blood stream and cross the placenta. Pesticide easily crosses, according to the book.
I live in Florida and work in a daycare. I see that they use conventional pesticide treatment every 3 months. It is sprayed all over the baseboards, throughout the school. They never open the windows. Further, they spray Lysol and other things pretty freely. I'm there only through this month and I'm actually skipping TTC for this month because of my concerns. (Not to mention the fact that I'm concerned for the kids there as research shows that children exposed to indoor pesticides are at a greater risk for developing leukemia.) I feel strongly about this and I'm kind of annoyed at the daycare for not using less-toxic pest control, but I don't feel comfortable saying anything since I'm a temp. I'm also annoyed that I have to be exposed to this if I am to work there and help them out. How can people worry about scrapes and cuts on a child but not this? How long will it take for my body to detox this stuff out once I leave?
I know it's easy to get neurotic, but there are also valid concerns, and a lot we don't now know but WILL know down the road. What we know about conventional pesticide exposure is pretty in-depth and alarming, especially when weighed against the new evidence that the prenatal environment is not the sort of bubble we once thought it was, but is highly vulnerable and a highly important time in development.
Here are 2 links for your consumption:
https://health.yahoo.net/rodale/PVN/pesticides-are-dumbing-down-our-kids
https://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/pesticides.html
It seems like common sense to me.
What do you think?
I'm also worried about my own health.
