Environmental Poisoning in Our Schools

Hello,

Today I have a short article you may find of interest for your publication
or website.
As most children go back to school in September, you will find this of
interest.

Please let me know when you publish it.

Thanks,
Jeannie Crabtree
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http://www.health-doc.com




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 call a
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. This can make your child sick with many of the symptoms
mentioned above.

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 use. 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. _______________________________________________

Article written by Jeannie Crabtree C.Ac. Jeannie has been a Health
Practitioner for the last 20 years and is a Certified Acupuncturist and
Total Body Modification therapy practitioner. Jeannie publishes Healthy
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