Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0665
ISSN: 2161-0665
Gehan Ismael Mohamed
Maternity & Child Healthcare, Saudi Arabia
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Pediatr Ther
Our literature review study reflects the light on some chemical substances which are widely used in many & different aspects of our children daily practices & try to get the answers for the following important questions. Do these chemicals that our children are widely exposed to since even their prenatal period & throughout their lives have real high risks & dangers on their health? Is the use of these chemicals essential for our kids or we can avoid and replace them with other non-risky substances & hazardous chemical free products!! Recently, a lot of systematic review studies have been done to investigate the possible relations between the most common chemical substances that we use daily and possible risks & health problems that may affect our children. Among the chemicals that have been studied intensively in the last few years are phthalates which are known as endocrine disruptors due to their anti-androgenic and/or estrogenic effects! The purpose & objectives of our study are to provide an overview of some widely and commonly used chemicals that are introduced to many of the products essentially used by our children daily and the possible relations between their use and some of the common health problems & disorders that affect children in order to raise the awareness among parents & health care providers regarding their potential health impacts on children and to provide a proper guidance that help to minimize the avoidable exposure to these risky chemicals and replace them with hazardous chemicals free products till we get enough studies that prove or disprove their risks & effects. Methods & Results: Our study tries to search through emphasis on & spot the light on the use of common chemical substances (phthalates) that are widely used in most of our children life aspects, searches for their possible risks & hazards on our kids' health tries to get relations & connections between these substances & common pediatric health problems & disorders. In our study we reviewed the data collected from many evidences based systematic reviews and cohort studies have dealt with these hazardous substances & stated the high incidence of their risks & their bad impacts on our kids health & prove the relation of these chemicals to certain respiratory problems specially wheezing in childhood, ADHD some atopic conditions and endocrine disruptions among children.
Gehan Ismael Mohamed is a family physician whose experience in the field spans 20 years, backed by a higher education degree from Netherlands. He is pioneering as an open and contextual evaluation model based on constructive responses which has led in the creation of new methods to improve primary maternity & child healthcare. Gehan has established this model following her years of experiences in medical practice, research, evaluation and teaching in hospitals and medical Facilities in the region including Egypt and the Saudi Arabia.