Pesticide Health Effects
MedEd Pesticide organizes its health guides by the effect they cover.
MedEd Pesticide Describes Poisoning Symptoms
These guides list symptoms and the health effects that follow exposure.
Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
Pesticide poisoning is an acute or subacute systemic, eye or skin illness from exposure to a pesticide. Pesticide poisoning follows inhalation, ingestion, skin or eye...
Effects of Pesticides on Human Health
Organophosphate and carbamate pesticides harm the human body by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase. Acetylcholinesterase inhibition lets acetylcholine accumulate at...
MedEd Pesticide Reports on Cancer Risk
These guides review what the evidence says about pesticides and cancer.
Can Pesticides Cause Cancer?
It depends. Some pesticides cause cancer in humans, but the risk depends on the pesticide and the exposure. The Environmental Protection Agency says cancer risk...
Is Glyphosate a Pesticide? What You Need to Know
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide registered by EPA for use on many crops and in non-crop sites. A 2007 study by Maurício Ribeiro Marques from São Paulo State...
MedEd Pesticide Reviews Neurological Effects
These guides cover Parkinson’s disease and the pesticides studied in connection with it.
Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease: What the Research Shows
It depends. Pesticides show a consistent statistical association with Parkinson's disease, but cause as a proven effect is not established. The EPA has not found a...
Parkinson's Pesticide Lawsuit: Claims, Evidence and Status
The Parkinson's pesticide lawsuit is a group of product liability claims over paraquat and Parkinson's disease. The Parkinson's pesticide lawsuits argue that...
Paraquat Pesticide
Paraquat, or paraquat dichloride, is a synthetic herbicide of the bipyridylnium chemical family. Paraquat is only formulated as a liquid. It kills all vegetation that...
Organophosphate Pesticides: Examples, Toxicity and Poisoning
Organophosphate pesticides are a class of insecticides made by esterifying alcohol and phosphoric acid. Several of them are highly toxic. Organophosphate pesticides...
MedEd Pesticide Covers Exposure Routes and Risk Groups
These guides cover how people are exposed and who faces the most risk.
Pesticide Exposure: Routes, Symptoms and How to Reduce It
Pesticide exposure is contact between the body and chemicals that kill or control pests. Those pests include insects, rodents, bacteria and fungi. Pesticides are...
Effects of Pesticides on the Environment and Human Health
The health effects of pesticides fall into five groups: nervous system, skin and eye, cancer, reproductive and endocrine effects. Pesticides produce different effects...
Safe Pesticides for Indoor Use
It depends. Indoor pesticide use is safe only with an indoor label and the labeled amount. Pesticides are inherently toxic, and the label of a registered product...
MedEd Pesticide Addresses Pets and Animals
These guides cover pesticide poisoning in dogs and pesticides around pets.
Pesticide Poisoning in Dogs
Pesticide poisoning in dogs is a toxic illness caused by contact with a product that kills or repels pests. Pesticide poisoning in dogs ranges from mild to...
Pesticides Safe for Pets
What makes a pesticide safe for pets is use that follows the pesticide label directions. Pet pesticide risk depends on how much pesticide a pet meets. Toxicity of the...
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