Study links autism to prenatal pesticide exposure
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Anonymous
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http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307044/
Huge increase in ASD in women who lived close to areas where agricultural pesticides were used. Different types of pesticides seem to be linked to ASD depending on trimester of exposure. This is a HUGE finding. No wonder there's been an explosion of ASD in the past several decades. Pesticides are everywhere and are being developed to be stronger and stronger since insects develop resistance to them. Even household pesticides like the kinds mosquito companies spray are implicated in the study. Yikes. I worry about my exposure this spring while visiting my parents (who had their yard sprayed), as I am in my third trimester now 
My other worry is that the very powerful agricultural lobby will shut down any further research into this. |
Anonymous
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Organophosphates have been implicated in lots of different health problems.
From the study: Approximately one-third of CHARGE Study mothers lived, during pregnancy, within 1.5 km (just under one mile) of an agricultural pesticide application. Proximity to organophosphates at some point during gestation was associated with a 60% increased risk for ASD, higher for 3rd trimester exposures [OR = 2.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) = (1.1, 3.6)], and 2nd trimester chlorpyrifos applications: OR = 3.3 [95% CI = (1.5, 7.4)]. Children of mothers residing near pyrethroid insecticide applications just prior to conception or during 3rd trimester were at greater risk for both ASD and DD, with OR’s ranging from 1.7 to 2.3. Risk for DD was increased in those near carbamate applications, but no specific vulnerable period was identified. |
Anonymous
| I read about 20 years ago that even one use of indoor pesticides increases the chance of parkinson's significantly. Nobody seems to care. They just keep putting up those little yellow warning flags. Maybe this will help, since this is really affecting so, so many families. |
Anonymous
| People always think I am a lunatic when I refuse to use roach spray or roundup... |
Anonymous
+1 What is the ASD rate now, 1 in 80? How long before changes are made? What does the rate have to be before we take pollution/pesticide exposures seriously? |
Anonymous
Probably never. People love their pretty lawns and mosquito free yards. |
Anonymous
Roundup is not a pesticide (j/s) |
Anonymous
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How much better would it be for the world if this study had come out before the fraudulent Wakefield "study"?
Just think, fewer pesticides being used every year, people protesting pesticides and no one contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. I want to live in that alternative universe. |
Anonymous
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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/23/pesticide-exposure-during-pregnancy-linked-to-autism/
This article describes it a little better. That is awful! I hope that they have finally found the real link, and not just another "maybe" link to autism. |
Anonymous
that's right, it's now technically a food. 
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Anonymous
You are seriously deranged to long for a parallel universe where there was no Wakefield study. You are a one-trick pony, for sure. |
Anonymous
uhhhh... what? You do realize that study has been totally, thoroughly, and completely debunked, right? |
Anonymous
I am really confused by this response. How is wishing the real (and not a damaging "fake") reason for autism had been found sooner a bad thing? |
Anonymous
Speaking od round up...you know what is frightening? Round up ready crops. We eat so much of that stuff. Plants are GMO to tolerate round up and are drenched in the stuff. The roundup becomes systemic in the plant. Washing is not enough. |
Anonymous
Sorry it doesn't work that way and people aren't spraying round up on crops, you are an idiot |