Fogging Effects On Pregnant Women Complete With Anticipation Steps During Infiltration

Illustration of mosquito fogging (ANTARA)

YOGYAKARTA Fogging or infiltration is one way to eradicate mosquitoes quickly and easily. Unfortunately, the effect of fogging on pregnant women needs to be watched out for. Not only for mothers, it is feared that fetal health will be disturbed.

It should be noted that mosquito fogging is done by spraying mosquito poison or insecticides in the form of smoke to kill adult mosquitoes. Fogging is done in settlements and surrounding areas. When fogging is carried out, residents of the house must step aside and find a safe and open place to avoid exposure.

Mosquito fogging liquids themselves use insect poison from the organophosporesisida class, such as malation, sumithion, fenithrothion, perslin, and so on. However, in Indonesia, the liquid that is often used to produce mosquito toxic smoke is malation.

Insecticide malation will be put in a gunsmoke container by first diluted with diesel or kerosene. After that, the gunsmoke will emit smoke into the targeted area. Although effective, fogging is quite dangerous for health, especially pregnant women.

In the 1992 Epidemiology Journal, examining the relationship of exposure to malation used to apply health. As a result, it was found that pregnant women exposed to malation had a greater risk of 2.5 times the child they contained had a gastrointestinal disorder.

Gastrointestinal disorder itself is an abnormality in the digestive system that involves organs and the circulation of the food certary process in the body.

In addition, malation that markets pregnant women continuously will have an impact on kidney failure, newborn baby disorders, gene damage and baby chromosomes that are still in the womb, lung damage, decreased immunity, sperm disorders, and even increased the child's hyperactivity.

Reporting from the Bengkalis District Health Office, infiltration containing malation will also trigger long-term impacts, one of which is the birth of a cacad child caused by poisoning in the mother.

Although malation is quite dangerous, its use as a mosquito killer is not too much. The use of malation in mosquito absorption uses very low concentrations. That way the impact of infiltration on health is not too significant, as reported by the New York Ministry of Health.

Before the mosquito fogging is carried out, pregnant women are advised to do several things, namely as follows.

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