New analysis suggests bug spray could be a trigger for ADHD. Based on
insufficient data with major uncertainties, the pesticide theory is too weak to
survive. A new-old theory about the cause of attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) is crawling across the nation: pesticides.
In the journal Environmental
Health (Editor's Note: "a journal best suited for the bottom of a bird cage") a group of American authors examined the relationship
between a common pesticide, pyrethroid, and ADHD. They used clinical
information and urine samples from hundreds of kids collected as part of a
2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)—a periodic
survey that’s at the center of countless other studies of American health and
disease. The authors asked a simple question: Are kids with ADHD more likely to
have detectable levels of pyrethroid (or its chemical metabolites) in the urine
versus kids without ADHD? The answer, is short, was yes. They found that kids
with detectable pyrethroid were twice as likely to have ADHD as kids without;
furthermore, and perhaps more convincing, the higher the level of pyrethroid,
the greater the likelihood of ADHD.
That clinches it, right? Of course not. Simple things are never
simple—and ADHD is nothing if not incredibly dense.......To Read More.....
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