Question

Health Effects of Environmental Toxins.

Answer 1

In today's world, we are surrounded by several harmful environmental toxins. These toxins can be present anywhere from food, water, furniture, products we use such as cosmetics, etc. This results in several means by which these toxins can enter the human body. The routes could be oral by food or water, through the skin by cosmetics, nasal openings, etc. The effect of these toxins differs from person to person, age, sex, and the immune system. These toxins can be classified as acute and chronic toxins which cause severe diseases in humans such as ALS, food poisoning, cancer, etc. There are present of carcinogenic components in the environment on exposure to which can lead to mutation in healthy individual developing cancer cells. Chronic toxins include mercury or lead poisoning. the most common mean by which this poisoning occurs is via toxic food consumption. Example if industrial effluent let out in sea contains mercury that gets ingested by the fish and when we humans consume such fishes the mercury getting accumulated in our body can cause damage to the CNS system. There are certain air bourne toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia that can cause skin irritation in human developing rashes, skin lesions on the skin or can even lead to skin cancer. Chemical toxins can also be introduced in the body by the excess use of pesticides and insecticides. On excess accumulation of BPA, phthalates can cause organ failure, hormonal damage, disrupt homeostasis in the body and also developmental defects in infants.