Lawn pesticides are designed to kill plants or animals when used as prescribed. At less than lethal dosage, pesticides will make organisms sick. Pesticides also poison humans and other non-target organisms. Children are especially vulnerable to being poisoned by herbicide and insecticide residues on lawns.

The various species of pesticides produce an array of poisoning symptoms. Pesticides poisoning may produce flu-like symptoms, or may mimic other common ailments. It may be difficult to determine if a symptom set is that of a common ailment or a pesticide poisoning mimic.

Damage from pesticide poisoning may be permanent or temporary. If pesticide damage is permanent, symptoms may linger. Even if pesticide poisoning sickness appears to be temporary, there still may be long term non-symptomatic damage. Not all pesticide damage is immediately apparent during the initial poisoning. Additional ailments may develop through the remainder of life.

If a pesticide poisoning victim suffers repeated exposures to the same poison, damage symptoms will of course recur. However, if new exposures are at higher dosages than the original exposure, additional different symptoms may develop.

Some pesticides may remain in the body for a long time at levels too low to manifest symptoms. Repeated exposures from many sources will increase stored levels. As critical levels of stored pesticides increase, symptoms may develop, either gradually or precipitously.

Many different pesticides can collect in the body. Their collective effects may be either sympathetic or antagonistic to each other and to prescribed and nonnprescribed  medical drugs. It may difficult to identify the exact poison species culpable in cases of multiple gradual pesticide accumulations, especially when a victim is simultaneously using prescribed medications.

Are you using pesticides to poison your lawnflowers, your lawns, your gardens, your family, your children, and every other living being in range? If so, please read some of the books and websites listed below. Click the name of a book or website link to view it. Education is the key to restoring, enhancing, and protecting health and the quality of life.

 

Note: The Lawnflower Bio-Protection webpage offers information on how to contol pests naturally, ecologically, and biologically. I wish you quick progress during your work to restore your pesticide decimated health and homestead ecosystem.

Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk to Man: Some Organochlorine Pesticides N

Pesticides in Surface Waters: Distribution, Trends, Governing Factors

Pesticides: Thirty Years Since Silent Spring