Should Doctors Warn Pregnant Women about Environmental Risk
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ReflectionWhen reading this article, I was starting to become very upset reading about how some doctors do not have the confidence in telling their patients that there are way more environmental problems that have a possibility to harm their child later down the line. This is seriously not fair to anyone considering that even if the doctors do not feel confident, I do still believe that they should at least give a light warning to these women. They should at leave have a very basic idea of the different things that can hurt their baby instead of traveling in this world blind without knowing the risks of what they are doing. The only solution to this problem would be maybe to try and educate newcoming doctors in the environmental sciences and teach them about the different dangers our bad environment can cause to a woman that is pregnant. Without this, then we are just going to end up with a large amount of babies that have a risk of having many health risks even though they are not even born yet.
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SummaryWhen going to get checked on, pregnant women usually get told the basics like staying away from certain things that could have a chance to harm the baby. This however, is not the complete truth when doctors are telling you the different chemicals that a woman thats pregnant should be avoiding. For example, in the text, it reads, "More than half said they don't warn about mercury, and hardly any give advice about lead, pesticides, air pollution or chemicals in plastics or cosmetics". This is partly because doctors are very do not feel that confident in their ability to be able to discuss this topic with their patients. There are many studies that researchers are doing when regarding which chemicals are dangerous as well as what the side effects of these chemicals are. The problem with this is that this information that these researchers are gathering actually do not reach women who are pregnant or may be pregnant in the future. In a recent survey, only 19 percent of doctors said that they talked to their patients about pesticides, as well as only 12 percent talk about air pollution. There are many more environmental problems that only few doctors are talking to their patients about and it is really starting to become a problem. This is something that people are not working on fixing considering that some of these dangerous environmental problems have a high risk of severely affecting the fetus inside of a woman as she is pregnant.
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