Environmental Health

Similarly to what you did with your personal care products,  post your findings on your BLOG under the heading Household Products . Tell us what products you looked up, what you found about the health risks, and how you responded to this new knowledge. If they don't have your first product choose another and keep choosing until you find one for which they have information. In reviewing your household items:  Were you surprised to find out the toxicity rating of your household products? Did you decide to change any of your consumer behaviors based on your findings? Should everyone know about this risks and why don’t they? The first product I looked up was cat liter. We have a cat at home and use Tidy cats cat liter and what I found was it causes irritation to the body more so by inhalation. We take turns at home to clean Melvin's liter box and my experience with it is when changing the sand dust particles built up and build a cloud that can cause...

In reviewing your personal care products: Were you surprised to find out the toxicity rating of your personal care products? Did you decide to change any of your consumer behaviors based on your findings? Should everyone know about this risks and why don’t they? One of the first products I reviewed was the deodorant that I use. I use Secret outlast in gel. I tend to sweat a lot and regular deodorants do not work for me and I have noticed gel helps control the sweat. I have known Secret brand does have chemicals in their products that are not suitable for human skin but I kind of brushed it off, until now. I was partially surprised because although I knew there were chemicals in Secret products I did not the depth of it. Fragrance is labeled at an 8 which was the highest and 10 other chemicals were at a 1 which is not too bad considering there a few other numbers in between with an overall score of 4. Based on my findings I will be changing my deodorant. I will look for...

M1.4 Blog Assignment: List of Environmental Exposures On Thursday August 23, 2018 class in groups we came up with a list of environmental exposures from home, schools workplaces and the community. I was surprised to hear how many chemical exposures we are exposed too thru the most simplest of things. For example, it was mentioned that chemicals found in pesticides are being found in children's cereals. That is quite scary! I currently work in a hospital where we are exposed to many chemicals. I am very observant of what is around me. Recently my co-worker installed an enormous printer which now causes me to debate whether or not this machine is emitting chemicals into the air and when I in-hail will it cause an illness in the long run? Even before taking this class I barely put much thought into the chemicals that I am surrounded by on a daily basis. From attending one class and reading all the chemical exposures my fellow classmates came up with, now has me thinking more ou...

M1.5 Blog Assignment: Environmental Health Home Assessment Did you understand why all of the questions on the Assessment tool pointed to an environmental health risks? Yes, because homes are built during different time periods were some might have such things as asbestos ceilings and mercury thermometer heaters. While newer homes come more equipped with new standards on what should be found in homes. All contribute to our health risk. For example, my home was built in 1928, it use to have asbestos ceilings till my parents were educated on the ill effects asbestos has on our lungs. My parents decided to have professionals come in chip off the asbestos and paint over it. Did you discover any environmental risks in your home by completing the home assessment? In doing the home assessment I did discover some risks. One already covered,having asbestos but now has been eliminated. Some new ones I have discovered are not having a home Radon test, having a home built before 1978, having...