Toxic exposure could be causing a pandemic of brain disorders in kids

[n2doc]

The numbers are startling. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.8 million more children in the US were diagnosed with developmental disabilities between 2006 and 2008 than a decade earlier. During this time, the prevalence of autism climbed nearly 300%, while that of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder increased 33%. CDC figures also show that 10 to 15% of all babies born in the US have some type of neurobehavorial development disorder. Still more are affected by neurological disorders that don’t rise to the level of clinical diagnosis.

And it’s not just the US. Such impairments affect millions of children worldwide. The numbers are so large that Philippe Grandjean of the University of Southern Denmark and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Philip Landrigan of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York—both physicians and preeminent researchers in this field—describe the situation as a “pandemic.”

While earlier and more assiduous diagnosis accounts for some of the documented increase, it doesn’t explain all of it, says Irva Hertz-Piccioto, professor of environmental and occupational health and chief of the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute. Grandjean and Landrigan credit genetic factors for 30 to 40% of the cases. But a significant and growing body of research suggests that exposure to environmental pollutants is implicated in the disturbing rise in children’s neurological disorders.

What, exactly is going on? And what can we do about it?

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http://qz.com/345627/toxic-exposure-is-causing-a-pandemic-of-brain-disorders-in-kids/

[KT2000]

1. neurotoxins are sold everywhere

dyer sheets (chloroform), pesticides, herbicides, air fresheners, perfumes, cleaning products, personal care products, formaldehyde (which is in so many products), building products, paints and varnishes etc. etc.

This has been known for a long time but the truth is most people do not care and as a national value - profits of corporations are much more important that the health of the next generation.

Europe has banned toxic chemicals that we have not even tested yet - so they can remain in common use.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Very true

and my understanding is that the few that have been tested have been tested in isolation and tolerable limits were set. No study regarding the combined effects of the toxins were done.

[Mosby]

3. All of that existed long before 2006.

[KT2000]

4. yes - of course

so did neurological problems for children.
The point is to identify the neurotoxins we are exposed to. If there was a drastic increase in 2006, trace the history of the known neurotoxins and their volume of use. The point is to investigate.