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Why Children Are at Higher Risk

 

Toxic chemicals in household products pose potential hazards to everyone.  Children are at an even higher risk from exposures to toxins than adults because they have special vulnerabilities.

Children's bodies are less developed

Beginning at the fetal stage and continuing through adolescence, children are physiologically very different from adults. They are in dynamic state of growth, with cells multiplying and organ systems developing at a rapid rate.  At birth their nervous, respiratory, reproductive, and immune systems are far from fully developed.

Because metabolic systems are still developing in the fetus and child, their ability to detoxify and excrete toxins differs from that of adults.  Generally they are not able to excrete toxins as well as adults, and this are more vulnerable to them.11

Because a child's immune system is less developed, it cannot protect against toxic exposures as well as an adult is protected.  For some toxins, children are missing important biochemical detoxifying mechanisms, which only develop later in life. 3

Developing cells in children's bodies are more susceptible to damage than adult cells that have completed development, especially for the central nervous system. During the development of a child, from conception through adolescence, there are particular windows of vulnerability to environmental hazards.  Exposure at those moments of vulnerability can lead to permanent and irreversible damage.  Even small doses of neurotoxins, which would be harmless in an adult, can alter a child's nervous system development. 12

Children Take In More Pollutants

Children drink more water, eat more food, and breathe more air per pound of body weight than adults.  Thus their bodies are easily overwhelmed by levels of pollutants that are much higher than adult exposures, relative to body weight.  The average infant's daily consumption of formula or breast milk, for example, equivalent to an adult male drinking fifty eight-ounce glasses of milk a day! 21  Growing children between one and five years old eat three to four times as much food per pound of body weight than the average adult, giving them greater exposure to pesticides and other contaminants in foods. 12

Children Put More Foreign Objects in Their Mouths

Children put their hands and other objects in their mouths more often than adults do, and so transfer more foreign substances into their bodies. Because children are smaller, and often play in the dirt or on the floor, they are closer to pollutants than adults aren't even exposed to. 12  Imagine crawling around on a floor that was just washed with toxic chemicals.  Adults don't do this, but babies and children do.

This is particularly a problem in day care, where chlorine bleach is used to clean toys.  On the one hand, it's a good idea to disinfect toys that children are putting in their mouths.  On the other hand, using a toxic chemical to do so poisons children if any residue remains.

Children absorb More Pollutants

Children absorb a greater proportion of many pollutants through their intestinal tract and lungs.  For example, they absorb about half of the lead they swallow, whereas adults absorb only about one-tenth. 3

Today, children have chemical exposures from birth than their parents didn't have until they were adults.  Because children are exposed to toxins at an earlier age than adults, they have more time to develop environmentally triggered diseases, with long latency periods, such as cancer. 14

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RESOURCES

 
1.  World Resources Institute, The 1994 Information Place Environmental Almanac (Houghton-Mifflin1994)
2.  Paula DiPerna, "Environmental Hazards to Children" (Public Affairs Pamphlets, 1981).
3.  H. Needleman & P. Landrigan, "Raising Children Toxic-Free" (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1994)
4.  Doris Rapp, M. D., "Is This Your Child's World?" (Bantam Books, 1996)
5.  Mary Ellen Fise, Indoor Air Quality (Consumer Federation of America, 1997).
6.  Woodruff T, Grillo J, Schoendorf K. "The Relationship Between Selected Causes of Postneonatal Infant Mortality and Particulate Air Pollution in the united States." Environmental Health Perspectives, June 1997; 105(6).
7.  "Environmental Health Threats to Children", EPA 175-F-96-001, September 1996
8. "Your Children and Ritalin," The Detroit News (March 8, 1998)
9.  Lance A. Wallace, The Total Exposure Assessment Methodology (TEAM) Study:  Summary and Analysis, Volume 1. Washington, DC. EPA, 1987.
10.  Nancy Sokol Green, "Poisoning Our Children" (The Nobel Press, 1991)
11.  Echobichon DJ and Stevens DD. "Perinatal Development of Human Blood Esterases." Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 1973;14:41-47.
12.  Landrigan PJ, Carlson JE, Bearer CF, Crammer JS, Bullard RD, Etzel RA, Groopman J, McLachlan JA, Perea FP, Reigart JR, Robison L, Schell L, Suk WA. "Children's Health and the Environment:  A New Agenda for Prevention Research." Environmental Health Perspectives 106 Supplement 3:787-794 (June 1998)
13.  Bearer CF. "Environmental Health Hazards:  How Children Are Different From Adults." Future of Children, Summer/Fall 1995;5(2):11-26
14.  Landrigan PJ and Carlson JE. "Environmental Policy and Children's Health." Future of Children, Summer/Fall 1995;5(2): 34-52
15.  Mindy Pennybacker and Aisha Ikramuddin, "Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet Guide to Natural Baby Care" (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
16.  National Center for Health Statistics, 1997
17.  http://www.checnet.org
18.  John Harte, Toxics A to Z (University of California Press 1991)
19.  Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
20.  Dr. Doris Rapp, "Is This Your Child?"
21.  N. Ashford and C. Miller, Chemical Exposures, Low Levels and high Stakes (van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991)
22.  Sherry Rogers, Chemical Sensitivity (Keats Publishing, Inc 1994)
23.  Theo Colborn, J. P. Myers and Dianne Dumanoski, Our Stolen Future (Viking Penguin, 1996)
24.  http://www.birthdefects.org/absracts/edcs.html
25.  Judith Burns, "The Cosmetic Cover-up," Human Ecologist (Fall 1989)
26.  Debra Lynn Dadd, Home Safe Home
27.  The National Safe Kids Campaign, Poisoning.
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