Are You Sure the Pesticides That You Use is Safe...

Pesticide is a hazardous material that usually used in agricultural industrial or daily used at home or garden especially to kill insects on plants. Basically for housewives who love gardening in their garden. But, they don’t know about the effects that may be affecting them on their future. From the data of cases reported from the United State Environmental Protection Agency was making an analysis that ten to twenty thousand farmworkers are poisoned in a year due to their pesticide exposure and the statistic of cases also have been made that the average of farmworkers that is, 5.5 per one thousand workers in a year.

Based on the video review above, there are two terms that may affect them which is classified as short term and long term illness. Wherever the least amount of particle of pesticides that exposed, it also had a chances to give a bad impact on our long term effects or chronic health effects such as cancer, infertility, birth defects or neurological damage. It is because the particle that were inhaled by the workers was very small particles and its can goes into the last target organ in our body systems such as our bronchioles. The person or workers that we called as pesticide handlers may be exposed to pesticides due to many ways such as spills, splashes, direct spray and also other method. For example farmworkers, they are highly risk to expose to this toxic pesticides because they more dealing directly with this chemical. For the family of farmworkers that dealing with this chemical also have a chance to injured by this chemical when workers bring together the pesticides that spills on their hair, skin, or clothing to their home and trapped in there.

The workers that over exposure to toxic pesticides can be fatal or death. After the over exposure to them, they will result in common symptoms that including headaches, sweating, weakness, vomiting, blurred vision and loss of consciousness. For the symptom of long terms effect is they will kill the nerves in our body. As we know, pesticides was a very dangerous material that we cannot see their effects to us now but it will give the impact soon and this material also can effect to our environmental and natural habitat.