Infectious disease environmental chemicals

The most common obsessions faced by patients with OCD involve fears of contamination. This fear may focus on germs and infectious diseases, household chemicals, environmental pollutants, or bodily wastes. These contamination obsessions most often result in washing compulsions but may also produce compulsive visits to health care providers. Obsessional doubts (e.g., Did I remember to. .. ) are typically associated with checking compulsions. Another common obsession, need for symmetry and exacmess, leads to compulsive arranging, ordering, or counting. Obsessions may also be aggressive, somatic, or sexual in content. 

CEH/CID (Committee on Environmental Health and Committee on Infectious Diseases) (2000). Chemical-hiological terrorism and its impact on children a subject review. Pediatrics 105 662-70. 

Also known as the pharmacy or, in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world, the chemist s, a drugstore is our source for literally thousands of chemicals that can he used to improve our health and well-being. And each year, dozens of new chemical compounds are added to that list of lifesaving and life-improving substances. These compounds include products for the relief of pain, the treatment of allergies and stomach disorder, protection from environmental hazards, cure of infectious diseases, alleviation of body aches and sores, the remedy for poisonous bites and toxic chemicals, and a host of other beneficial results. 

Due to the possibility of pediatric casualties from chemical agent attacks, several pediatric advocacy groups, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have commented on the urgent need for pediatric chemical casualty research (Blaschke and Lynch, 2003). The Committees on Environmental Health and Infectious Diseases have provided the following consensus statement regarding children and chemical-biological threats (CEH/ CID, 2000). 

By the late nineteenth century a few physicians and microbiologists had begrm to realize that infectious diseases are transmitted by microbes, including bacteria and viruses. To decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections, physicians like Joseph Lister and Ignatz Semmelweis experimented with chemicals and procedures that were designed to eliminate pathogens from environmental surfaces and from wounds. 

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