M1.4 Blog: My initial thoughts on my environment.

Looking around at my home, following our first course, I could not help but notice all the exposures we talked about. Chemical exposures seem to dominate my household. Deodorant, hairspray, lotions, shampoos, plastics and creams in the bathroom to Windex window cleaner, herbicides/pesticides, and carpet cleaner stain remover in the kitchen. Radiological exposures are just behind chemical exposures. This list at my home includes one wireless printer, wi-fi, TV, four computers, two phones, one I-pad, one microwave, and one propane space heater on the wall. We also have one UV light lamp for our tomato plants. I am almost sure this is not a good idea now since the UV light is most likely not controlled well enough.

It is almost disheartening to know that the possibility that almost everything in this world could cause cancer. How do you live without exposing yourself to carcinogens?

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  1. Sandy TanAugust 29, 2018 at 12:40 PM

    Hi Dan,
    Great observations about the hazardous environmental exposures in your home. I also find it to be a scary thought that almost all the things we use and have around us can cause cancer and other health issues. Like I mentioned in my blog entry, it would be a challenge to avoid these exposures because they occur in everywhere we go, and most of the time it is out of our control. This might mean that even though if people are aware of the hazardous environmental exposures happening in their everyday lives, they will find it difficult to avoid because it is out of their limits.

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  2. Hugo FGSeptember 5, 2018 at 11:26 AM

    The last two sentences you wrote in this post summarize the feeling I had when I inspected my environment. The realization of how unaware we are to our exposures in our surroundings is what impacted me the most.

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