Chemicals That May Be Hurting Our Children: Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity

[G_j]

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/11-everyday-chemicals-causing-brain-damage-in-our-101872223911.html

A glass of cold water. Your comfy couch. A fresh supply of dry-cleaned clothes. All around us, every day, we’re exposed to chemicals that can damage the brains of unborn and young children — causing things like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and lost IQ points.

This is the stark reality according to two globally renowned doctors in an article published recently in the journal Lancet Neurology. Doctors Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Philip Landrigan of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City argue that chemicals should be better tested before allowed on the market, and are calling for a global prevention strategy.

This is not the first time these prestigious researchers have sounded the alarm — between the two of them they have hundreds of studies and decades of collective evidence to substantiate their fears.


Co-Founders Jessica Alba & Christopher Gavigan meet with children’s health advocate and long-time Honest supporter Dr. Philip Landrigan.

We’re listening and heeding the warnings as best as we can. Here’s how you can too — by avoiding the 11 chemicals outlined in Grandjean and Landrigan’s article. To help, we’re sharing the main sources of exposure to these chemicals so you can easily protect your family.

...more...
-------------------------------

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/fulltext#article_upsell

Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity

Dr Philippe Grandjean MD a b Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Philip J Landrigan MD

Summary

Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to be increasing in frequency. Industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain are among the known causes for this rise in prevalence. In 2006, we did a systematic review and identified five industrial chemicals as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants—manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers. We postulate that even more neurotoxicants remain undiscovered. To control the pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity, we propose a global prevention strategy. Untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development, and chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental neurotoxicity. To coordinate these efforts and to accelerate translation of science into prevention, we propose the urgent formation of a new international clearinghouse.

[malaise]

1. One of my medical friends was involved in a study

on the impact of lead on young children in a poor community. The results were shocking.

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R.

Toluene, for example, may be in your nail polish remover. It used to be there. I don't know whether it still is. I do not use nail polish.

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended!

I'm sure this exposure will improve in the future, since, you know, we're tightening regulations.

[DeSwiss]

4. It's the system.

- I keep saying.

http://vimeo.com/34176018

K&R

[UglyGreed]

5. I'm so glad

I trusted the plastic bottles I fed my children with when they were babies. Glass was pretty good in it's day, but shipping cost and it's fragile natural was too much for companies to deal with. Got to watch the bottom line!!!

[Octafish]

6. What tee vee will say: It's the price we pay for progress.

Which is to say: It's the price you pay for somebody's profit.

Thanks for the heads-up, G_j! I've heard a couple of presentations on endorphine disruptors. This info on developmental neurotoxicity is very important.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. lucky thing it's easy to protect yourself.....

Sez Yahoo Parenting dot com Newz.... Happy Face!!! !!

We’re listening and heeding the warnings as best as we can. Here’s how you can too — by avoiding the 11 chemicals outlined in Grandjean and Landrigan’s article. To help, we’re sharing the main sources of exposure to these chemicals so you can easily protect your family.

Haaaaaaaahaahaaaa!!

[G_j]

8. yea, I thought that was quite a stretch...

but it fortunately linked to the actual artcle/study.