In her article “If You Work in Cosmetology, Beware of Risks,” Jaclyn Stewart describes how chemicals are everywhere and the most amount of chemicals are located in salons, but people do not realize pregnant women are harming their unborn child with these salon used chemicals. When women go to the salon, they are surrounded by millions of chemicals that will harm their child in the womb. Stewart believes that people see the most popular products being used and they appear to be harmless, but this is not true as they contain the same or even more intense chemicals. The fact these chemicals are so dangerous in salons shows women are in danger to themselves and their newborn. Stewart argues that chemicals found in the kitchen, air, and foods are…
Schettler, T. (2001). Toxic threats to neurologic development of children. Environmental Health Perspective 109(6). P. 813–6 Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240616/pdf/ehp109s-000813.pdf…
Besides, the movie Chemerical and Silent Spring also had the same ideas with this article. Obviously, ingredients in our products that we used contained lots of harmful chemicals, which could cause and damaged our health. For example, ammonia found in glass cleaner, naphthalene found in the carpet cleaner, chlorine found in bleach, BPA found in plastics, sodium lauryl sulfate found in dishwashing soap, or DDT found in several pesticides. These chemicals would damage our eyes, throat, liver, brain, and if we swallowed, it could be fatal. In the article, it pointed out that they had a proof which “vinyl toys, polycarbonate baby bottles, and food cans leak potent endocrine disruptors.”…
1. The advantages of organic food, you are what you eat: An article about organic food and diseases in non-organic food…
Religion is one of the pillars of society. It can be used to rule the common with fair and just practice or it can be used for a rulers own self-improvement and greed. Many times over the course of world history religion is misconstrued and leads individuals to believe self-interrupted version of its holy text. Two of the most prominent religions in world history Islam and Christianity were used to empower those in high authority. This point is made clear with the documents discussed, and show readers that religion is nothing more than tool for the intellect to take advantage of the common masses of society.…
Target Organ and Other Health Effects: • Blood disorders • Liver injury may occur. • Causes headache, drowsiness or other effects to the central nervous system. This product contains ingredients that may contribute to the following potential chronic health effects: • Notice: Reports have associated repeated and prolonged occupational overexposure to solvents with permanent brain and nervous system damage. Intentional misuse by deliberately concentrating and inhaling the contents may be harmful or fatal. • Prolonged exposure over TLV may produce pneumoconiosis. • Possible sensitization.…
Are your chemicals Endocrine disruptors, carcinogens or teratogens? (also known as hormonally active agents, endocrine disrupting chemicals, or endocrine disrupting compounds) This might require some additional research. Please cite your references. Health effects labeled on the household products database state no chronic health effects reported. Plus under Carcinogencity for NTP and IARC was claim none was reported. (Consumer Product Information Database, 2001-2013)…
TriCyclic Antidepressants (TCAs). This kind of antidepressants are one of the first drugs to be used for treating depression. TCAs work the same way as SNRIs. However, TCAs affect other chemical messengers, which cause many side effects. TCAs have been replaced in popularity due to the side effects they bring, which include urinary retention, constipation, weight loss, weight gain due to increased appetite, profuse sweating, tremors, delayed orgasms, lowered sex drive, tremors, blurred vision, dizziness and drop in blood pressure. Some doctors still prescribe TCAs when other kinds of medication have failed. The most used TCAs include amitriptyline, amoxapine, desipramine (Norpramin), doxepin, imipramine (Tofranil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), protriptyline (Vivactil) and trimipramine (Surmontil).…
The Medicines Act 1968 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It governs the control of medicines for human use and for veterinary use, which includes the manufacture and supply of medicines. The Act defines three categories of medicine: prescription only medicines), which are available only from a pharmacist if prescribed by an appropriate practitioner; pharmacy medicines, available only from a pharmacist but without a prescription; and general sales list medicines which may be bought from any shop without a prescription.…
~Aspirin is used to treat pain due to inflammation. It also used to treat several conditions such as…
The teratogen I choose to do this assignment on is Cytomegalovirus (CMV). The reason why I choose this teratogen is because I wanted to learn more about it and how to prevent this infectious disease. I am aware it is closely related to Herpes. I want to know what similarities and difference Cytomegalovirus had compared with Herpes.…
Unit 7. Assignment 2. The Effects of Selected Drugs and Diseases on the Central Nervous System.…
The increase in desire for perfect produce, drives the need for pesticides today. Much debate of the effects of chemicals used on commercial crops and overall long term effects on humans is an increasing concern. With the increase in advertising of organic produce, many standards of farming have been criticized. Many are claiming a large increase in risk to humans for consuming commercially grown produce, because of the chemicals used to manage such a large volume of crops. There have been many debates of the actual risk of pesticide consumption. With advancing technology and farm equipment, many types of chemical sprays and powders have been used. The actual effect of these pesticides and long term exposure can be harmful to human health.…
During anesthesia, there is a great amount of drugs used to suppress the pain that would occur to the body. There are some common drugs that are used. Alcohol, Aspirin, Lidocaine, Morphine, and Succinylcholine are all used during anesthesia. Each is used to interrupt the pain signals during surgeries. Without these medications, the body would not be able to withstand such trauma occurring to perform the procedure fully.…
Hazard identification is an important part of learning about pesticides and whether or not to use them. This asks the question; Does exposure to substance caused increased likelihood of adverse health effects such as cancer or birth defects. When planning to use chemicals like Malathion it is important to learn as much as possible about it. Malathion is a man-made organophosphate insecticide that is commonly used to control mosquitos and a variety of insects that attack fruits vegetables, landscaping plants, and shrubs. (Department of Health, 2009). Malathion is also used indoors to control insects and ticks on pets like cats and dogs. Short-term exposure to high levels of Malathion affects the nervous system causing increased heart rate, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, and cramps. I have found no information on long-term effects on humans due to exposure. This doesn’t mean that is none, it means…