J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  LINDANE
The most commonly used prescribed medication for these problems is lindane (Kwell). Doctors apparently have not yet figured out that it doesn't work and has generated some safety concerns. Over the past few decades the effectiveness of lindane has been decreasing because of the emergence of treatment-resistant lice. lindane kills only 17% of lice after a three-hour period, and none after ten minutes, the recommended time of exposure. lindane is less effective than prescription malathion and over-the-counter pyrethrin and permethrin. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Lindane is implicated in causing cancer, fetal toxicity, birth defects, reproductive problems, aplastic anemia (a blood disorder), kidney damage, and endocrine disruption; lindane also is acutely toxic to aquatic life. A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively.
Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world. | | A 2003 study by the CDC determined that 62 percent of Americans have the insecticide in their bodies. lindane is implicated in causing cancer, fetal toxicity, birth defects, reproductive problems, aplastic anemia (a blood disorder), kidney damage, and endocrine disruption; lindane also is acutely toxic to aquatic life. A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively.
Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts | | There have been three confirmed Lindane-related deaths. lindane is contraindicated in children with uncontrolled seizure disorders and alcoholics. Only one application is recommended.
MALATHION
Malathion (Ovide) is an organophosphate that kills lice by inhibiting the cholinesterase enzyme. Malathion is the most highly effective pediculi-cide, killing 88% of lice in ten minutes and 100% in twenty minutes. Malathion also binds to sulfur in the hair shaft and kills lice eggs. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | What's ludicrous is that this highly toxic chemical cannot be used on plants and pets anymore, yet we permit it on children's heads (where it can readily be absorbed through the skin). lindane, the active ingredient in many prescription lice treatments, is a neurotoxic chemical in the same family as DDT. Like DDT, lindane remains in the environment, collects through the food chain, and travels on air and water currents to pollute the farthest reaches of earth. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  If scabies is on the face, lindane can be carefully applied there, taking care to avoid the eyes. Leave the lotion on for about 12 hours before washing it off in the shower with soap. Repeat this treatment one week later. Generally, treatment is recommended for the whole family, as well as for those in close contact, such as care givers. lindane should not be used on infants or pregnant women as it is potentially neurotoxic. Permethrin cream is a better choice for these patients, massaged into the skin from head to toe and left on for 12 hours. Only one treatment is needed. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  DDT and lindane), 45 PCB congeners and 21 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) flame retardants, including those found in the commercially traded penta-, octa- and deca-BDEs.
Their FINDINGS:
?Every person tested is contaminated by a cocktail of known highly toxic chemicals which were banned from use in the UK during the 1970s and which continue to pose unknown health risks.
?We found 70 (90 per cent) of the 78 chemicals we looked for in the survey. The highest number of chemicals found in any one person was 49, nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of the chemicals looked for.
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Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  Bhatnagar A, Gupta A, Chlorpyriphos, quinalphos and lindane residues in sesame seed and oil (Sesamum indicum L.). J Sci Food Agric, 60:596-600, Apr. 1998
Bhatnagar A, Gupta A, Dissociation and denaturation behaviour of sesame alpha-globulin in sodium dodecyl sulphate solution. Int J Pept Protein Res, 60:385-92, Apr. 1998
Chambers SJ, Carr HJ, Lambert N, An investigation of the dissociation and denaturation of legumin by salts using laser light scattering and circular dichroism spectroscopy. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of lindane for veterinary purposes for treatment of lice on animals; for people, the agency recommends its use for patients who cannot tolerate or have failed treatment with safer medication."10
For the first time, a developing country—Mexico —was proposing the ban of a chemical that was approved for use in the land of its long-dominant, and far richer, northern neighbor. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, it's in the family of the toxic pesticides Chlordane, lindane, and DDT."
Nutritionist Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman also worries about Splenda, which is found in more than 4,000 packaged foods and beverages, and which grabs more than 50 percent of the $1 billion U.S. artificial-sweetener market.
"Sucralose is a 'Frankenfood' to me," Dr. Gittleman continues. "I highly suspect that, later in life, users may suffer from the by-products of chlorine, which can act as an estrogen mimic." (In other words, too much estrogen could fuel cancer.)
In addition, Joseph Mercola, D.O. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts | | The EPA's action, however, had no effect on the use of lindane shampoos, which are regulated as a pharmaceutical by the FDA, and still permitted for anti-lice shampoos.
The meeting in Montevideo sent a powerful message home of what can happen when the United States excludes itself from international environmental negotiations. Even the chemical industry began indicating its support for U.S. accession to POPS. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | Lice Shampoo_
Harmful materials: At one time the most common tteatment for head lice was a shampoo that contained lindane, a very toxic chemical easily absorbed through the skin. One child's death was reported to have been the result of lindane poisoning after tteatment for head lice, and lindane is now known to cause convulsions, sei-zures, and cancer in laboratory animals. None of the half dozen brands of lice shampoo available at my local drugstore contain lindane, but it is still used in many populat brands, so read labels carefully. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | Although organophosphates are toxic to the environment, no neuro toxicity has been reported in humans as a result of topical lice treatment. lindane is a strong ohanochloride pesticide. Its use has become less desirable because of several reports of toxicity in the elderly, but it is still a treatment choice for small areas of the skin for less than 10 minutes at a time, which is how it is used to treat head lice. Ivermectin is a newer option that is effective and has virtually no side effects. It is currently being investigated for use on head lice. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts | | But Yarto was also aware, as were many others in the room that day, of the leap into a new era his country's position on lindane represented—particularly in the long-standing reliance Mexico has had on the United States. "Strong differences," he told me, "have emerged between our two countries at this time. If the United States follows policies that do not benefit the environment, then it is Mexico's opportunity to show leadership in terms of environmental decision making.""
The Mexican proposal had particular poignancy for Janice Jensen. | | It turned out, Yarto told me, that there were plenty of alternatives—many of them tested in farmlands of Europe, where lindane had been banned from all uses since 2001. "Europe," Yarto commented, "had a long history of finding other ways of controlling those pests."
By September 2004, eight months before the POPS meeting in Montevideo, Yarto himself announced to the startled participants at a CEC meeting in Montreal—with Janice Jensen and other EPA officials attending—that his country was, "not waiting" for the United States. | | Mexico was banning lindane from all agricultural and pharmaceutical uses as of January 2007.b In Punta del Este, Mexico was asking the world to do the same. The United States was alone in its commitment to a chemical on which the rest of the world was rapidly turning its back.
Thirty years ago, shortly after the birth of the EPA, the United States began to ban and impose restrictions on the most toxic pesticides and chemicals. | | Mexico would also have to concern itself with lindane residues coming into their country, just as Americans once had to concern themselves with banned chemical residues coming into the United States on Mexican tomatoes and other crops.18
U.S. delegates returned from the POPS meetings in 2005 frustrated over being sidelined from the action. No one had stopped what they were doing because the United States refused to cooperate. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice started paying attention. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | Generally, treatment is recommended for the whole family, as well as for those in close contact, such as care givers. lindane should not be used on infants or pregnant women as it is potentially neurotoxic. Permethrin cream is a better choice for these patients, massaged into the skin from head to toe and left on for 12 hours. Only one treatment is needed.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Herbs: Combine 30 g of She Chuang Zi (cnidium seed), 30 g of Di Fu Zi (broom cypress), 20 g of Tu Fu Ling (glabrous greenbrier rhizome), and 20 g of Ku Shen (sophora root), available from Chinese herbalists. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | Like DDT, lindane remains in the environment, collects through the food chain, and travels on air and water currents to pollute the farthest reaches of earth. It blocks specific sodium channels, causing overstimulation of the body, and breaks down into several metabolites, one of which is readily stored in body fat. A 2003 study by the CDC determined that 62 percent of Americans have the insecticide in their bodies. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  The facility formulated a variety of liquid and powdered pesticides, including some truly dangerous ones (now largely banned in the United States) such as chlordane, lindane, dieldrin, and aldrin. Soil samples indicated the presence of pesticides, benzene, toluene, xylene, chlordane, naphthalene, and metals. Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively.
Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world. In the United States alone, more than 18,000 products are licensed for use, and each year more than 2 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to crops, homes, schools, parks, and forests. Such widespread use results in pervasive human exposure. |
Kathi Keville
See book keywords and concepts |  The poison of choice for more than 30 years has been lindane, a cousin of the infamous and now banned pesticide DDT. lindane, available only by prescription, is toxic to people as well as lice because it is readily absorbed by the skin and can cause nervous system problems, even convulsions. This chemical is not exactly what you want to put on your preschooler's head when he or she comes home from school infested with lice. To make matters worse, strains of lice are becoming resistant to lindane, so there is a chance that it may not even work. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts |  The chemicals most strongly associated with this cholesterol-increasing effect appear to be the organochlorine pesticides and pollutants, such as DDT, lindane, PCBs, and dioxin. It seems that the higher the body levels of these highly persistent and exceedingly common body contaminants, the higher the level of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. Not only is this cholesterol-increasing effect found in people who work with these chemicals, but also in people who do not work with pesticides and are merely exposed to higher levels of these toxins from their environment and diet. | | This varied group includes chemicals known as DDT, PCBs, dioxin, and lindane. organohalogens A number of artificial and highly toxic compounds, which include the organochlorines, pesticides, PCBs, and the PBB fire retardants. They are particularly persistent and toxic and are not found in nature. Their difficult molecular shape (because of the halo-genated component), often makes it impossible for our bodies' waste disposal systems to see and remove them. organophosphates Synthetic organic compounds containing phosphorus, which include highly toxic pesticides and nerve gases. | | Chemicals That Can Cause Breast Cancer
Alcohols
Chemicals containing chlorine Detergents
Organochlorines (DDT, lindane, dieldrin, PCBs) Pesticides (organophosphates, synthetic pyrethroids) Plastics (bisphenol A, chloride) Solvents (chlorinated)
Synthetic estrogens used in hormone replacement and the contraceptive pill
Toxic metals (tributyltin,cadmium, antimony, barium, chromium, lithium, lead acetate)
Estrogens—The Jekyll-and-Hyde Effect
Estrogens are one of the hormones that make women different from men and play a fundamental role in controlling all aspects of female fertility. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Considerations
Q A topical scabicide called lindane (gamma benzene hexachloride, found in the product Kwell) was once considered a standard treatment for scabies. In recent years, however, it has largely been replaced by permethrin, which is believed to be safer and cause fewer side effects.
Q Scabicides are not recommended for children under the age of six or for pregnant women. In such cases, a milder sulfur solution is usually recommended.
Q It may take one to two weeks for the itching to subside, even after treatment. |
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