Review Article
Volume: 1 | Issue: 1 | Published: Apr 28, 2025 | Pages: 61 - 65
Pesticide exposure, associated risks, and long-term human health impacts: a narrative review
Authors: Mohamed Elsayed Othman , Mai Omar Salih
Article Info
Authors
Mohamed Elsayed Othman
NICU and Pedia consultant, NICU and Pedia consultant
Mai Omar Salih
resident, care hospital Alsalam
Publication History
Received: January 29, 2025
Accepted: March 18, 2025
Published: April 28, 2025
Abstract
Pesticides are used in a variety of circumstances, including agriculture and public health activities. Pesticides, on the other hand, have a deleterious influence on human health, with effects ranging from short term to long term. We focus on the long-term effects of pesticide exposure on human health. The literature on the current subject was collected through web research using various terms. This review was written based on eligible articles with precise titles. Pesticides are linked to a variety of negative health effects, ranging from short-term symptoms like nausea and headaches to long-term serious effects like cancer. Pesticides are risk factors that have been connected to a variety of serious ailments and illnesses over time. However, such risk and linkage are difficult to accurately deduce and explain because most diseases that need prolonged exposure also have a number of additional risk factors that can be included and function synergistically with pesticides to promote disease development. As a result, it is possible to conclude that long-term pesticide exposure poses a number of dangers to human health, although further research is required.
Keywords: Pesticide, Exposure, Long-term, Impact, Human health.