HEALTH: Study Reveals Pesticides Raise Child Risk of Leukaemia

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HEALTH: Study Reveals Pesticides Raise Child Risk of Leukaemia UK: January 17, 2006 LONDON - Exposure to pesticides in the womb or as a child can double the risk of developing acute leukaemia, French scientists said on Tuesday. They discovered that children born to women who used insecticides in the home while pregnant and after the birth were nearly twice as likely as other youngsters to develop leukaemia. Even insecticidal shampoos to kill head lice raised the odds of the disease. "The results ... support the

hypothesis that various types of insecticide exposure may be a risk factor for childhood acute leukaemia," said Dr Florence Menegaux, of the research institute INSERM Villejuif, France, in a report in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The researchers discovered the link after interviewing the mothers of 280 children who had been diagnosed with leukaemia and of 288 healthy children. They found that youngsters exposed to fungicides and garden insecticides had more than double the risk of the illness than other children. http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34510/story.htm

 

 

 

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