Daily Life And Safety In Pregnancy /

Environmental and occupational exposure

01 In Brief

Links to references about organic solvents, electric shock, insecticides such as DEET, lead, mercury, pesticides, house hold cleaning products, chemicals in plastic  and carbon monoxide 

02 What Others Say

  • The Motherrisk site from The  Hospital for Sick Kids Toronto has a  well referenced page on Occupational / environmental exposures including 
    • organic solvents ,
    • electric shock, 
    • DEET based insect repellants 
    • organic solvents, 
    • lead,
    • carbon monoxide.

http://www.motherisk.org/women/occupationalExposures.jsp

  • March of Dimes is an American health not for profit organisation originally set up in 1938 to prevent polio but  whose mission today  is to improve the health of newborns by preventing birth defects, premature births and infant mortality. Their website includes discussion on; 
    • lead, 
    • mercury,
    • house hold cleaning products
    • chemicals in pastic
    • pesticides

http://www.marchofdimes.com/pregnancy/stayingsafe_indepth.html

  • Paint in pregnancy: Illinois teratogen Information services 

http://fetal-exposure.org/resources/?p=3

03 I Want To Know More

Perinatolgy.com has links to exposure to chemicals during pregnancy 

Links rto articles covering 

  • arsenic,
  • carbon monoxide
  • insecticides
  • mercury
  • organic solvents 
  • paint
  • paternal exposure
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls
  • toluene
  • workplace exposure 

http://www.perinatology.com/exposures/chemlist.htm

 

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Last updated: 04/12/2010