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It is well known children are not small adults. From an environmental health point of view, this is especially true. Children are especially susceptible to environmental insults, including exposures from placenta, milk, food, water, skin, and air.
Early onset conditions like atopic dermatitis, asthma, and allergic rhinitis are highly related to indoor and ambient environment. From indoors, dust mite, animal dander, and mold growth are important allergens. Air pollutants are known to trigger asthma attacks. They are also related to occurrence of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis. A ubiquitous group of chemicals, the plasticizers, are also related to asthma occurrence. In addition, congenital anomalies can be linked to air pollutants when the fetus was exposed during critical periods in gestation.
Among highly exposed children, many other conditions have been documented. In central Taiwan, exposure to dioxin-like chemicals occurred in 1979, due to accidental consumption of contaminated rice oil. Children born to exposed mothers had pigmented skin, reduced growth, reduced intelligent quotient (IQ), increased middle ear infection, hearing loss, and disturbance in hormones. When the male children were 16 to 20 years of age, they were found to have worse semen quality, and feminized hormones. Changes in DNA methylation were found which might be responsible for some of the health effects documented.
Protection of our children from environmental threats requires knowledge of potential adverse effects of environmental exposure to children, sensitivity to potentially environmental effects, and determination as a whole to protect our next generation.
講 者 Speaker: Yue-Liang Guo, MD, MPH, PHD (Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine; NTU Hospital Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, NTU College of Public Health) 郭育良教授 (台灣大學醫學院環境職業醫學科，台灣大學環境與職業健康科學研究所)
主 持 Host: Dr. Chih-Da Wu (Associate Professor, Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University) 吳治達副教授 (成功大學測量及空間資訊學系)
日 期 Date: 9 May 2022
時 間 Time: 10:00 - 11:00 (GMT+8)
地 點 Venue: Virtual 線上 (send link after registration 報名後寄送連結)
語 言 Language: English 英文
講者資訊 Speaker's Info:
https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/cris/rp/rp06834
https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/EOM/Vcard.action?q_type=-1&q_itemCode=84
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Early onset conditions like atopic dermatitis, asthma, and allergic rhinitis are highly related to indoor and ambient environment. From indoors, dust mite, animal dander, and mold growth are important allergens. Air pollutants are known to trigger asthma attacks. They are also related to occurrence of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis. A ubiquitous group of chemicals, the plasticizers, are also related to asthma occurrence. In addition, congenital anomalies can be linked to air pollutants when the fetus was exposed during critical periods in gestation.
Among highly exposed children, many other conditions have been documented. In central Taiwan, exposure to dioxin-like chemicals occurred in 1979, due to accidental consumption of contaminated rice oil. Children born to exposed mothers had pigmented skin, reduced growth, reduced intelligent quotient (IQ), increased middle ear infection, hearing loss, and disturbance in hormones. When the male children were 16 to 20 years of age, they were found to have worse semen quality, and feminized hormones. Changes in DNA methylation were found which might be responsible for some of the health effects documented.
Protection of our children from environmental threats requires knowledge of potential adverse effects of environmental exposure to children, sensitivity to potentially environmental effects, and determination as a whole to protect our next generation.
講 者 Speaker: Yue-Liang Guo, MD, MPH, PHD (Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine; NTU Hospital Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, NTU College of Public Health) 郭育良教授 (台灣大學醫學院環境職業醫學科，台灣大學環境與職業健康科學研究所)
主 持 Host: Dr. Chih-Da Wu (Associate Professor, Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University) 吳治達副教授 (成功大學測量及空間資訊學系)
日 期 Date: 9 May 2022
時 間 Time: 10:00 - 11:00 (GMT+8)
地 點 Venue: Virtual 線上 (send link after registration 報名後寄送連結)
語 言 Language: English 英文
講者資訊 Speaker's Info:
https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/cris/rp/rp06834
https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/EOM/Vcard.action?q_type=-1&q_itemCode=84
Register 報名 ☛ https://pse.is/45ew3v
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