The concept of a healthy home as promoted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies involves not only aspects of the built environment, but also creating homes that are safe in terms of toxic hazards such as carbon monoxide and pesticides. This concept is one in which human health care providers, public health professionals, and veterinarians can actively collaborate because it seems clear that what is good for the human beings in the household in terms of toxic hazard reduction is also good for animals living in the household.
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HEALTHY HOMES
Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Clinicians
PRIMARY PREVENTION OF TOXIC EXPOSURE
- Pet Proofing and Child Proofing
- Judiciously Prescribe Medications
- Substitution: “Green” Chemistry
ANIMALS AS SENTINELS FOR HUMAN TOXIC EXPOSURE RISK
- Routes of Exposure
- Metabolic Fate/Susceptibility
- Latency
ACUTE TOXIC EXPOSURES
- Common Medications and Their Toxicity in Human Beings and Animals: Acetaminophen, Aspirin, Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs
- Other Household/Environmental Sources of Acute Toxic Exposures
Ethylene Glycol, Cleaning Products (Bleach, Ammonia, Others), Metaldehyde, Poisonous Plants, Rodenticides, PTFE Fumes
Identification of Exposure
CHRONIC TOXIC EXPOSURES AND HEALTH EFFECTS
CARBON MONOXIDE
Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Clinicians
- AGENT
- ROUTES OF EXPOSURE AND METABOLIC FATE
- GROUPS AT RISK
- TOXICITY IN HUMAN BEINGS
- TOXICITY IN ANIMALS
- DIAGNOSIS
- MANAGEMENT OF CO POISONING
- Treatment in Human Beings
- TREATMENT IN ANIMALS
LEAD
- Other Names in Human Beings: Plumbism, Lead Colic
- Other Names in Animals: Lead Poisoning
- Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Health Clinicians
- AGENT
- ROUTES OF EXPOSURE AND METABOLIC FATE
- GROUPS AT RISK
- TOXICITY IN HUMAN BEINGS
- TOXICITY IN ANIMALS
- DIAGNOSIS
- MANAGEMENT OF LEAD TOXICITY
- Treatment in Human Beings
- Treatment in Animals
PESTICIDES
- Toxic Effect of Organophosphate and Carbamate Insecticides
- Toxic Effect of Other Insecticides
- Toxic Effect of Other Pesticides
- Toxic Effect of Pesticide, Unspecified
- Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Clinicians
INSECT REPELLENTS USED ON HUMAN BEINGS
- DEET
- Picaridin
- Pyrethroids/Permethrin
- Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus
PESTICIDES USED ON ANIMALS
- Pesticides With Low Relative Mammalian Toxicity
- Pesticides With Moderate Relative Mammalian Toxicity
- Pesticides With High Relative Mammalian Toxicity
GROUPS AT RISK
TOXICITY IN HUMAN BEINGS
TOXICITY IN ANIMALS
DIAGNOSIS
MANAGEMENT OF ANIMAL-RELATED PESTICIDE POISONING
ENVENOMATIONS
- Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Clinicians
- HYMENOPTERAN ENVENOMATION
- LEPIDOPTERISM
- SPIDER BITES
- SCORPION STINGS
- REPTILE EVENOMATIONS - Pit Vipers, Elapids, Poisonous Lizards
- AMPHIBIAN INTOXICATIONS
- MARINE ENVENOMATIONS - Coelenterates, Anthozoa (Sea Anemones), Larvae (Sea Bather's Eruption), Echinodermata (Sea Urchins), Poisonous Fish, Sea Snakes
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS - Environmental Exposure to Harmful Algae and Toxins; Algae Bloom
Accidental Poisoning by Other Solid and Liquid Substances, Gases, and Vapors
Accidental Poisoning from Poisonous Foodstuffs and Poisonous Plants
Shellfish
Other Fish
Toxic Effect of Noxious Substances Eaten as Food
Fish and Shellfish
Accidental Poisoning from Poisonous Foodstuffs and Poisonous Plants
Other Fish
Chemical Poisoning and Other Contamination
Poisoning from Contaminated Water Supply
Key Points for Clinicians and Public Health Professional: Public Health Professionals, Human Health Clinicians, Veterinary Clinicians
PRIMARY PREVENTION
EARLY DETECTION, SURVEILLANCE, AND EDUCATION
ACTIONS TO PREVENT EUTROPHICATION
CAUSATIVE AGENTSROUTES OF EXPOSURE AND METABOLIC FATE
GROUPS AT RISK
TOXICITY IN HUMAN BEINGS
TOXICITY IN ANIMALS - Wildlife, Companion Animals
DIAGNOSIS
MANAGEMENT OF HAB TOXICITY - Treatment in Human Beings, Treatment in Animals
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