Health Effects suffered by Pregnant Women and Babies due to Exposure to Fat Soluble
Health is a priority for most of the people today.

Being one of the most important basic human needs, human beings and governments have ensured that people are healthy because they are a very important factor of production. We all know the popular saying “health is wealth.” By being healthy, it does not mean that one is free from physical trouble but rather it means that one is experiencing physical mental and social well-being. A healthy person is abenefit to himself as well as astrength to those around him or her. If one is ailing, he or she becomes a burden to people because people have to spend time looking after him or her. Provision of good healthcare should start at infancy to ensure that all the body organs develop properly and that there are no deformities. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “It is health which is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver” (Gandhi, 1998). An unhealthy person is not able to perform any activity and therefore he or she cannot contribute to the economic development of his or her country. This makes the economic growth of the country to be slow because the little that produced is spent to cover for expenses in provision of good health to the citizen.

People should therefore be at a position to identify factors that deprive them good health and put in place measures to stop theseproblems. Environmental hazards such as water, air, and noise pollution are the widely recognized causes of health problems to people. This paper generally will look at the health effects suffered by pregnant women and babies due to exposure to fat-soluble pesticides. This paper also outlines recommendations on how this problem can be dealt with.

Health effects of fat-soluble pesticides to pregnant women

Fat-soluble pesticides are pesticides that contain chlorine at a high percentage. They contain toxins that may be stored in our body fat or in the body of animals, we consume. Use of chlorine in agricultural production has been banned because organochlorines tend to be toxic and bio-accumulative. When chlorine bleaches, it releases off toxic organochlorine such as phosphamidon, dichlorvos, and endosulphan (Sharma, 2001).

One of the effects suffered by pregnant women due to exposure to fat-soluble pesticides is breast cancer. Polychlorinatedbiphenyl (PCBs) has been found to be the main cause of cancer and other related diseases. It is a fat soluble substance which many people are exposed to if they get into contact with pesticides by either inhaling it or ingesting animal fats. When pregnant women inhale PCBs, they stand a chance of suffering from cancer. This is because PBCs are carcinogenic and act as cancer promoters. PBCs release carcinogenic substance that is toxic and act on the genes in the body (Tharappel, Lee, Robertson, Spear, & Glauert, 2002). However, it is very hard to classify the type of cancer that one suffers because PBCs accumulate together with other toxic fat-soluble pesticides hence it is hard to determine whether the cancer that one suffers is brought about by PBCs.A mother’s exposure to pesticides during pregnancy has been found to lead to brain cancer. Brain cancer is an abnormal growth of cells within the central nervous system pesticides cause an abnormal sell growth in the brain of the pregnant mother thus leading to development of brain cancer. According to Barrow Neurological Institute, brain cancer has mainly been found to develop from cancer in the other parts of human body.


 

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