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Commonly used pesticides present serious health risks for dogs and people.
One of my dogs recently had her regular check-up at our veterinarian's office, where despite my oft-stated concerns over pesticide safety I was convinced to buy an expensive product to keep fleas, ticks and mosquitoes at bay during this exceptionally buggy summer.
It's perfectly safe, the doctor assured me.
As it turns out, she was wrong -- but she had no way of knowing that because of secrecy on the part of federal pesticide regulators.
The product in question was Advantix, a once-a-month topical treatment for dogs developed by Bayer. One of the active ingredients in Advantix is permethrin, a member of the family of synthetic chemicals called pyrethroids, which are similar to the potent natural pesticide pyrethrin produced from chrysanthemums. Permethrin is also used on crops and to treat head lice and scabies in humans, and it's found in popular home insect sprays.
But a groundbreaking new report by the Center for Public Integrity -- based on a decade's worth of adverse incident reports filed by pesticide manufacturers with the Environmental Protection Agency -- documents serious safety problems with permethrin and other pyrethroids:
An analysis of EPA data by the Center for Public Integrity ... shows that the number of reported human health problems, including severe reactions, attributed to pyrethrins and pyrethroids increased by about 300 percent over the past decade. A Center review of the past 10 years' worth of more than 90,000 adverse-reaction reports, filed with the EPA by pesticide manufacturers, found that pyrethrins and pyrethroids together accounted for more than 26 percent of all fatal, "major," and "moderate" human incidents in the United States in 2007, up from 15 percent in 1998. Although the number of fatalities was low -- about 20 from 2003 to 2007 -- the amount of moderate and serious incidents attributed to the group -- more than 6,000 -- is significantly greater than any other class of insecticide.Accompanying its study, CPI has created a searchable database of pesticide incident reports based on EPA data that has not been public until now. Deemed one of the "10 Most Wanted Government Documents by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the EPA's database was released to CPI earlier this year under the Freedom of Information Act.
It shows that in North Carolina there have been five reported incidents involving Advantix and moderate adverse effects on humans.
The EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs hadn't planned to examine the health effects of this class of chemicals until 2010, but it now says it will expedite the process.
All lice are parasites and an infestation of these little blood suckers, (really, they are blood suckers), can be frightening and embarrassing. You may ask, How do some lice end up in certain places on the body? Do they choose where they want to live? The answer is no. The answer is that there are 3 different species of lice that live on humans and they are:
- Pediculus humanus (Head lice)
- Pediculus humanus corporis (Body louse, clothes louse)
- Pthirus pubis (“Crab” louse, pubic louse)
Pubic lice AKA “Crabs” or “Crab Lice” are spread from person to person by sexual contact. They are very rarely spread by clothing, bedding or toilet seats.
A pubic lice infestation is considered to be a sexually transmitted disease.Like any sexually transmitted disease, people who are sexual contacts need to be examined for crab lice and treated and sexual contact between the infested person and their sexual contact should be avoided until the parties are treated and reevaluated to make sure the infestation is gone.
The crab lice removal products that you will find at the drugstore are all pesticides that are highly toxic. Unfortunately, we are being bombarded daily by more and more toxins in our environment and the last thing you want to do is to add to the toxic load that you are carrying. Most substances that you put on your skin will get absorbed and you do not want toxic your skin to absorb pesticides!
It is hard to believe that pesticides would be allowed on the market for human use but they are. Recently, I read a book, “The Brain Wash” by Michele Schroffro Cook who is a naturopathic physician. She estimates that in just 15 years, there will be more people suffering with brain diseases than there will be people suffering with all cancers and heart disease combined. This frightening prophecy has been well thought out based on the increasing number of toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Most of these toxins are disguised in the form of medicines and personal care products. But pesticides are pretty obvious toxins and you do not want to use them. You need to use a totally safe and natural product that has thankfully been invented..
An ingenious natural pubic lice treatment that is both safe and effective is Genitrex. Genitrex is a gentle shampoo that contains enzymes that break open lice on contact. When the enzymes break open the exoskeleton of the louse, it basically implodes. So, as you wash the area of infestation, you wash away the crab lice and their eggs or nits that the louse has attached to your hairshafts. The glue that the louse makes to hold the nits to the hair is dissolved by Genitrex so after one use, 99% of all crab lice and their nits are gone! Genitrex ends the nightmare of pubic lice AKA crab lice safely! (See also: http://www.controlpubiclice.com ) There is also a product made specifically for head lice that was discussed in a previous blog entry. Lice R Gone is a natural head lice treatment that is an enzyme filled shampoo that removes head lice naturally and on contact. http://www.licergone.com
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