Pesticides and Adhd: Organic Alternatives
Finally, a new study in the Pediatrics journal confirms what we have all the time feared - pesticide exposure is among the many Adhd causes in children. Children are especially vulnerable to the chemicals in pesticides because their immune principles is not adequate to protect the body adequately. Due to their lighter body weight, children also consume more pesticide residue than adults.
Once pesticides enter the body, they get broken down into compounds that are excreted straight through the urine. The study found high levels of pesticides in 94% of the children they tested. Additionally, these kids were found to have an increased risk of Adhd than children with low levels of pesticides.
How exactly do children get exposed to pesticide residue? It's inherent that they have eaten fruits or vegetables sprayed with pesticides, inhaled it in the air, or drunk it in water. Children who live in the city are likely to have gotten exposed straight through contaminated food. For If you have a organery or a farm at home and use pesticides to keep bugs at bay, it's likely that this is how your child got exposed. Here are some ways you can keep bugs away from your organery or farm without using pesticides:
Fine netting
A fine net like cheese cloth can protect growing seeds from chewing insects, keep flying insects from laying eggs, and keep birds out. Plainly place it over the seedling bed and weigh it down with rocks.
Collars
Hatching larvae have a nasty habit of burrowing into the soil that surrounds plants and seedlings. To forestall this, use a collar made of heavy plastic, tar paper, or stiff paper. Cut a foot quadrate and fit it snugly colse to the plant's stem. Press into the soil until it is an inch deep.
Coffee tin
Trap insects that don't fly by burying a coffee tin can in the organery bed, with the can's lip barely peeking out of the soil surface. They will fall into the can and cannot get out. Make sure that you empty the can often.
Homemade garlic spray
Garlic does an excellent job of retention pests away. Chop 3-4 ounces of garlic bulbs and soak it in 2 tablespoons of mineral oil overnight. Get a tablespoon of fish emulsion and dissolve this in a pint of water. Mix this to the garlic solution. Stir and strain the liquid into a glass container. Dilute one part of this explication for 20 parts of water. The garlic pesticide should kill mosquitoes, aphids, and onion flies.
Boric acid
Boric acid is a natural insecticide that kills roaches, fleas, grasshoppers, ants, and termites. It also functions as a fungicide and gets rid of fungi and molds.
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