The Precautions and Treatment for Pesticide Poisoning.

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One need to be very careful while using pesticides at home,offices, in the farm or any where.

If you use any pesticide, take the following precautions:

• Mix chemicals and load spray equipment carefully.
• Stand so that wind blows spray away from you.
• Wear protective clothing, covering the whole body.
• Wash the whole body and change clothes immediately after spraying.
• Do not let wash water get in to drinking supply.
• Be sure containers with pesticides are clearly marked, and kept out of children's reach. Do not use pesticide containers for food or water.

CAUTION: Make surd that children, and women who are pregnant or breast feeding, stay away from all pesticides.

Treatment For Pesticide Poisoning:

• If the person is not breathing, quickly do mouth - to mouth breathing.
• Make sure that you you put finger inside his or her throats yo make the person vomit, and yo give powdered charcoal ( or egg whited) to soak up the poison inside the gut. But do not make the person vomit if you do not know what kind of pesticide hr was using, or if he swallowed a pesticide with gasoline, kerosene, xylene, or other ' petroleum based' liquids.

- Remove any pesticide - soaked clothing, and wash skin exposed to pesticide.

The above steps can help to treat the immediate problem of pesticide poisoning. But solving the underlying problem will require:

(1) Education for avoiding the most dangerous pesticides, and laws yo restrict their use.

(2) Farm workers organizing to insist their rights are protected, and safety hazards are corrected.

(3) Fairer land distribution.

 

[Deleted member 28127]

The problem of children is that even you hide pesticide at any place of the house they will find it then you have to hide outside the house where they leave like for example at your room which is closed during their absence and this is a critical point you have mentionned.