Child care

Prevention of pertussis in infants less than 12 months of age Adults who have close contact with infants less than 12 months of age, especially parents, grandparents, and child care providers, should receive a single dose of Tdap. An interval of at least 2 years since the last tetanus-containing vaccine was given is suggested, but shorter intervals may be used. Ideally, Tdap should be given 1 month prior to contact with the infant. 

Vicki Barwick obtained a first degree in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. She then joined the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (which became LGC in 1996) as an analyst in the Consumer Safety Group. Vicki was involved with a number of projects to assess the safety of consumer products, including developing test methods for the identification of colourants in cosmetics and the quantitation of phthalate plasticizers in child-care items. 

In this short article it is reported that the successful validation of a Dutch method to measure the migration of plasticisers from PVC toys and child-care items means that a European Commission ban onphthalates is now less... 

Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale. The Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale contains 97 items and is similar to the Devereux Teacher Scale. It is used for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded children aged 8 to 12 years. Besides being easy to use, this scale is well researched and discussed in the literature. It requires 10 to 20 minutes to complete by clinicians, child care workers, parents, or others and gives 17 scores. There is a Devereux Adolescent Behavior Rating Scale for children from ages 13 to 18. 

Grace Children s Hospital, International Child Care, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2Southern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Orleans, LA 70179... 

The TDI values settle by the EFSA in 2005 (Table 3) were different from those calculated by the Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment (CSTEE) in 1998 [134] based on the phthalate migration from soft PVC toys and child care articles, and the available toxicity studies on animals at that time [117, 122, 135], with the following values DBP (TDI of 100 pg/kg b.w./day), BBP (TDI of 200 pg/kg b.w./day), and DiDP (TDI of 200 pg/kg b.w./day), but they... 

CSTEE (1998) Phthalate migration from soft PVC toys and child-care articles opinion expressed ate the CSTEE third plenary meeting Brussels (EU Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment) 24 April 1998... 

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Kairaluoma, L., Narhl, V., Ahonen, T., Westerholm, J., and Aro, M. (2008). Do fatty acids help in overcoming reading difficultires A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effects of eicosapentaenoic acid and carnosine supplementation on children with dyslexia. Child Care Health Dev. (in press). 

Jane had unsuccessfuily attempted detoxification with lofexidine about six months previously. At the time she had been keen to have this method and then go on naltrexone, but the main problem had been that she was unable to satisfactorily reduce her heroin use in preparation. She also had the ongoing stresses of child care, although she had had some help offered. 

Studies of working women present the potential for additional bias, because some factors that influence employment status may also affect reproductive end-points. For example, because of child care responsibilities, women may terminate employment, as might women with a history of reproductive problems who wish to have children and are concerned about workplace exposures (Joffe, 1983 Lemasters Pinney, 1989). Thus, retrospective studies of female exposure that do not include terminated female workers may be of limited use in risk assessment, because the level of risk for some of the outcomes is likely to be overestimated (Lemasters Pinney, 1989). 

Rudel et al. (2001) reported concentrations of nonylphenol and its mono- and di-ethoxylates up to 14 mg kg 1 in house dust for a 7-sample pilot study in the USA. Concentrations of ethoxylated octylphenols did not exceed 5 mg kg"1. Of the more than 30 phenols analyzed only 4-nonylphenol was found in air with concentrations up to 0.118pgm"3. Wilson, Chuang and Lyu (2001) reported the nonylphenol content of dust samples from 10 child care centers (USA) to be 4.16-13. Smgkg 1 the Bisphenol A content to be 1.04—4.51 mgkg 1, respectively. In their study concentrations in air amounted to 0.052-0.527 ggm 3 for nonylphenol and up to 0.0018ggm 3 for Bisphenol A. 

Results for endocrine disrupting phenols in house dust as reported by Rudel et al. (2003) and Butte et al. (2001) are compiled in Table 11.1. Rudel et al. (2003) sampled indoor air in 120 homes as well. They analyzed both house dust and air for 89 organic chemicals identified as EDCs. The most abundant compounds in air included 4-nonylphenol and 4-t-butylphenol with typical concentrations in the range of 0.050-1.500ggm 3. Saito, Onuki and Seto (2004) collected air samples from houses, offices, and outdoor points. 4-t-butylphenol, 4-t-octylphenol and 4-nonylphenol were detected in both indoor and outdoor air. Concentrations and detection frequencies were higher in indoor air than outdoor air. The maximum levels of 4-t-butylphenol, 4-t-octylphenol and 4-nonylphenol in indoor air were 0.387, 0.0457 and 0.680 ggm 3, respectively. 4-t-butylphenol and 4-nonylphenol were detected with high frequencies (more than 97%) in the indoor air samples. Wilson, Chuang and Lyu (2001) reported a mean of 0.0007 gg m"3 Bisphenol A in the air of 10 child care centers and a mean of 0.203 gg m 3 for the sum of nonylphenol and its ethoxylates. 

Other work on PCBs in house dust relies on 20 PCB congeners like in the studies of Wilson, Chuang and Lyu (2001, 2003) for dust and air from 5 child care centers and from homes of 9 children. Most prominent PCB congeners in dust were PCB 101 and PCB 110 (both pentachlorinated PCB congeners) in both studies in contrast to air where PCB 10, a dichlorinated PCB congener and PCB 28 (a trichlorinated PCB congener), were most abundant. 

Leeson R Barour J, Ray KL, Warr R. management of infant sleep problem in a residential unit. Child Care Health Dev 1994 20 89-100. 

GE provides its employees with tuition, adoption, parenting and child care assistance education and career counseling and legal and financial information services. 

Regularly being unable to pay due bills (e.g., utilities, rent, child care, credit cards)... 

U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2005. Lead and copper rule A quick reference guide for schools and child care facilities that are regulated under the safe drinking water act. Available at http // www.epa.gov/safewater/schools/pdfs/lead/qrg lcr schools.pdf. 

A. Hardy, Rickets and the rest, child-care, dirt and the infectious children s diseases, 1850-1914 , Soc. Hist. Med., 1992, 5, 389-412. 

The exposure pathway and physicochemical characteristics of a particular environmental chemical can provide useful information on the likelihood of childhood exposure (chapter 5). Age-specific exposure pathways of particular relevance include those during the prenatal and early developmental years postnatally (e.g. placental transfer, breast milk, toys, soil, indoor air/dust, child-care centres). Exposures to persistent environmental chemicals are of special concern, since the internal exposure may continue and result in a level sufficient to cause effects during critical developmental stages, even after the external exposure has ceased or been removed. 

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