Pyrethroids - could they be dangerous?

Journal of Education, Health and Sport

Michał Konopelko¹  Barbara Nieradko-Iwanicka¹  Joanna Popiołek²  Aneta Szafraniec³  Adam Alzubedi⁴  Monika Kusz⁵ 

[1] Chair and Department of Hygiene, Medical University of Lublin;Department of Cardiology, Cardinal Wyszynski Hospital in Lublin;Department of Endocrinology, Medical University of Lublin;Department of General and Transplant Surgery and Nutritional Treatment, Medical University of Lublin;Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Medical University of Lublin;

关键词: pyrethroids;    insecticides;    poisoning;    toxicology;   

DOI  :  10.5281/zenodo.1422449

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Pyrethroids are powerful insecticides, which are worldwide use in pest control, in agriculture, forestry, even in households. The amount of used pyrethroids is growing every year. They were created as the result of a modification of natural pyrethrin, which is botanical insecticide extracted from chrysanthemum flowers. The pyrethroids are the substances with powerful effects on insects nervous system due to binding to voltage-gated sodium channels of nerve cells. Despite of relatively low risk of toxicological effect on humans and other mammals, there are many reports of acute or chronic exposure on pyrethroids. Based on available literature implicates that pyrethroids induce adverse health effects on non-target organisms. The associations between exposure to pyrethroids and the effect on nervous, endocrinological and immunological systems were reported. The purpose of this study was to analyze an association between exposure to pyrethroids and its potential poisoning effect on humans.

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