Contents:
- Medical Video: If You Get This Plant at Home, You’ll Never See Mice, Spiders, or Ants Again
- Various objects in the home garden that could endanger health
- 1. Pesticides
- 2. Animal manure
- 3. Lice
- 4. Bees
- 5. Waste burning
- 6. Flip flops
- 7. Rusty gardening equipment
Medical Video: If You Get This Plant at Home, You’ll Never See Mice, Spiders, or Ants Again
Relaxing in the yard to accompany your child to play can be the right choice to spend the weekend with family. You can also take advantage of free time to garden to beautify the garden. However, be careful when touching various objects around your garden. Without realizing it, some objects in the home garden turned out to save a danger for your family's health. Anything? Continue reading the following reviews.
Various objects in the home garden that could endanger health
1. Pesticides
For people who like gardening or decorating home gardens, pesticides are the mainstay of "weapons" to eradicate insect pests. Even so, exposure to pesticides is equally dangerous for human health.
In men and women of childbearing age, excessive pesticide exposure can cause hormonal disorders and thyroid disease which can affect fertility. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), pregnant women who are often exposed to pesticides have a higher risk of giving birth to a disabled baby, low birth weight babies (LBW), to the death of the fetus in the womb.
In infants and young children, the pesticide exposure they receive while playing in a home garden is at risk of triggering complaints of headaches, muscle aches, asthma symptoms, and nausea.
Continued pesticide exposure in the long run causes more severe health problems, such as organ damage to trigger cancer - including leukemia, breast cancer, and brain tumors.
2. Animal manure
If you have pets at home, the dirt they throw in the garden can be an intermediary for spreading the disease. For example, Toxoplasma (which is specifically in cat feces) or all kinds of worms that cause worms.
Animal manure is often used as compost to fertilize plants. Susanne Bennett, DC, CCSP, allergy specialist revealed to Everyday Health that dog feces and other animal feces can contain parasites that can enter the skin easily.
In order to avoid infection due to animal feces, use footwear when playing in the park and immediately wash your hands with soap until it is completely clean after touching the ground or other objects in the garden.
3. Lice
Home garden is one of the hiding places that can sit on your body anytime. Although small, flea bites can transmit typhus epidemics, trench fever, aka five-day fever, and louse-borne relapsing fever.
In addition to making itching, flea bites can also cause eye and skin disorders, such as impetigo, boils on the skin, inflammation of blepharitis and conjunctivitis, to Lyme disease (although this disease is rare in Indonesia).
4. Bees
The home garden is identical to flying insects. One of them is a bee. Bee stings can cause excessive allergic reactions. Prepare an injection of epinephrine (EpiPen) which can counteract an allergic reaction to insect bites when doing activities in a home garden, if you or a family member has allergies to bees.
To avoid bee stings, avoid wearing brightly colored clothes, pungent-smelling perfumes, and not carrying sweet foods or drinks that can attract insects.
5. Waste burning
Do you usually burn trash on the home page? If so, you should immediately stop this bad habit.
Inhaling carbon monoxide gas from combustion can cause asthma, shortness of breath, developmental disorders in children, damage blood vessels, and cause kidney failure and liver failure. An environmental study in Boston shows breathing air pollution increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes by up to 4% higher.
Smoke from garbage combustion is also carcinogenic which can trigger lung cancer, even though it is inhaled in small amounts.
Dispose of garbage properly without having to burn it. If possible, recycle your household waste.
6. Flip flops
The flip-flops are comfortable and can protect the soles of your feet from stepping on dirt or sharp objects. Slippers can also help prevent you from experiencing ringworm or eyelets as you step on damp soil. Even so, the habit of using flip flops for a long time can cause a lot of problems with the feet.
Flat flip flops do not support the curvature of the foot, which causes your feet to grip into the center of your body rather than stay straight. When that happens, you are more likely to experience a sprain because the ankles tend to turn inward or outward, said Eunice Ramsey-Parker, DPM, MPH, podiatric medical professor from New York, reported by Reader’s Digest.
In addition, the soles that wear out for a long time can thin out easily making sharp objects penetrate and pierce the soles of the feet. The flip-flops are usually more slippery, so that friction and moisture from water or sweat can cause blisters on the heels or fingertips.
We recommend using calf-high rubber boots to protect your feet while watering the garden or gardening.
7. Rusty gardening equipment
Holding a rusty object is actually safe. But if you step on rusty nails hidden between grasses or injured by rusty objects, the infection can be fatal if not treated quickly.
Tetanus is a possible complication of infection. If tetanus is not treated, the infection can get worse and cause gangrene (tissue death). Severe infections can also cause sepsis, a bacterial infection that attacks the blood and is very likely to cause death.
