Organophosphorus pesticides cause delayed nervous system diseases
Subject: organophosphorus pesticides cause delayed nervous system diseases
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:02:37 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read a
short report that is copyrighted. It
came from Chung Hua Shen Ching Ching Shen Ko Tsa Chih 1991 -
Dec;24(6):336-8, 383 and is entitled: The report of organophosphorus
pesticides cause delayed nervous system diseases (143 cases) the original
article was in Chinese - Zhang C Jiaojang Hospital.
This article reports delayed dysneuria 143 cases, 54 cases
in male and 89 cases in female, age 8-59 years old. They are treated by atropine. After the cholinesterase inhibited
symptoms had vanished or had improved and after the other factors had been
eliminated the delayed dysneurias occur after poisoning 5.42 days. They are the
peripheral neuritis, the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the myasthenic crisis,
the peptic neuritis, the encephalitis, the mixed aphasia and the symptoms like
Guillain-Barre's syndrome. Their death rates are higher in two months to the
types of the myasthenic crisis, the encephalitis and the amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis and to the other types of disease and the cases. Poisoned two months
later, their prognosis are better and the mechanism are not very clear now.
Well Mr. Helliker, I know of many safe and far more
effective (unregistered) pest control alternatives that do not cause delayed
nervous system diseases and/or other health problems - when will they be "legal" (in your opinion) to
use in California?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten |
