Environmental Poisoning in School

This is an article I wrote a few years back, but is still good advice today if you have school age children.

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.

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 chemical exposures.

If you find that your child has had chemical exposure, I find PCA-Rx to be a great help because it will effectively, naturally, and gently remove all of these contaminants from the body.


Jeannie Crabtree C.Ac.

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