NaturalPedia > Lindane

Quotes about Lindane from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

 Email this page to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 3 | Next ->

"Over the past few decades the effectiveness of lindane has been decreasing because of the emergence of treatment-resistant lice. lindane kills only 17% of lice after a three-hour period, and none after ten minutes, the recommended time of exposure. lindane is less effective than prescription malathion and over-the-counter pyrethrin and permethrin. lindane acts on lice by stimulating their central nervous system similar to DDT. Those with lesions on their head can develop central-nervous-system toxicity if they apply the lotion on the head." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Lindane is implicated in causing cancer, fetal toxicity, birth defects, reproductive problems, aplastic anemia (a blood disorder), kidney damage, and endocrine disruption; lindane also is acutely toxic to aquatic life. A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively. Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "What's ludicrous is that this highly toxic chemical cannot be used on plants and pets anymore, yet we permit it on children's heads (where it can readily be absorbed through the skin). lindane, the active ingredient in many prescription lice treatments, is a neurotoxic chemical in the same family as DDT. Like DDT, lindane remains in the environment, collects through the food chain, and travels on air and water currents to pollute the farthest reaches of earth." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"There have been three confirmed Lindane-related deaths. lindane is contraindicated in children with uncontrolled seizure disorders and alcoholics. Only one application is recommended. MALATHION Malathion (Ovide) is an organophosphate that kills lice by inhibiting the cholinesterase enzyme. Malathion is the most highly effective pediculi-cide, killing 88% of lice in ten minutes and 100% in twenty minutes. Malathion also binds to sulfur in the hair shaft and kills lice eggs." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"If scabies is on the face, lindane can be carefully applied there, taking care to avoid the eyes. Leave the lotion on for about 12 hours before washing it off in the shower with soap. Repeat this treatment one week later. Generally, treatment is recommended for the whole family, as well as for those in close contact, such as care givers. lindane should not be used on infants or pregnant women as it is potentially neurotoxic. Permethrin cream is a better choice for these patients, massaged into the skin from head to toe and left on for 12 hours. Only one treatment is needed." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Like DDT, lindane remains in the environment, collects through the food chain, and travels on air and water currents to pollute the farthest reaches of earth. It blocks specific sodium channels, causing overstimulation of the body, and breaks down into several metabolites, one of which is readily stored in body fat. A 2003 study by the CDC determined that 62 percent of Americans have the insecticide in their bodies." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively. Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world. In the United States alone, more than 18,000 products are licensed for use, and each year more than 2 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to crops, homes, schools, parks, and forests. Such widespread use results in pervasive human exposure." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Jeffrey Boscamp, our resident head-lice expert, we're conducting a large-scale research project to test the product—a healthy alternative to traditional treatments containing toxic pesticides such as lindane and malathion—in schools. In the beginning stages of the project, we'll be surveying parents at several New York City schools, as well as approximately 2,700 school nurses in New York and New Jersey, about their experiences treating and diagnosing head lice." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Some just filter out chlorine and lead, while others filter out lindane, VOCs, and other contaminants. Among the filters compared are Aquasana, Amway, Culligan, Kenmore, GE, Pur, and Brita. • The Consumer Search Web site (www.consumersearch .net) compares all the different types of filtration systems out there and ranks them according to efficacy. Categories include the best pitcher filter, the best horizontal filter, the best under-the-sink filter, the best faucet filter, and so on. • Other useful Web sites include www.thebestwaterfilters .com, www.bestfilters.com, www.freedrinkingwater." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Several states are considering bans on lindane, the organochlorine pesticide in one popular lice-treatment product, as a suspected carcinogen and neurotoxin that bioaccumulates in the environment and might cause seizures and deaths in humans exposed to it. But we still have a long way to go. Malathion, another main active ingredient in conventional head-lice products (and also flea-control products for pets), is an organophosphate insecticide that might be toxic to the endocrine, neurological, gastrointestinal, and respiratory systems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Lice Shampoo_ Harmful materials: At one time the most common tteatment for head lice was a shampoo that contained lindane, a very toxic chemical easily absorbed through the skin. One child's death was reported to have been the result of lindane poisoning after tteatment for head lice, and lindane is now known to cause convulsions, sei-zures, and cancer in laboratory animals. None of the half dozen brands of lice shampoo available at my local drugstore contain lindane, but it is still used in many populat brands, so read labels carefully." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"In fact, it's in the family of the toxic pesticides Chlordane, lindane, and DDT." Nutritionist Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman also worries about Splenda, which is found in more than 4,000 packaged foods and beverages, and which grabs more than 50 percent of the $1 billion U.S. artificial-sweetener market. "Sucralose is a 'Frankenfood' to me," Dr. Gittleman continues. "I highly suspect that, later in life, users may suffer from the by-products of chlorine, which can act as an estrogen mimic." (In other words, too much estrogen could fuel cancer.) In addition, Joseph Mercola, D.O." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Generally, treatment is recommended for the whole family, as well as for those in close contact, such as care givers. lindane should not be used on infants or pregnant women as it is potentially neurotoxic. Permethrin cream is a better choice for these patients, massaged into the skin from head to toe and left on for 12 hours. Only one treatment is needed. TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE Herbs: Combine 30 g of She Chuang Zi (cnidium seed), 30 g of Di Fu Zi (broom cypress), 20 g of Tu Fu Ling (glabrous greenbrier rhizome), and 20 g of Ku Shen (sophora root), available from Chinese herbalists." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"One child's death was reported to have been the result of lindane poisoning after tteatment for head lice, and lindane is now known to cause convulsions, sei-zures, and cancer in laboratory animals. None of the half dozen brands of lice shampoo available at my local drugstore contain lindane, but it is still used in many populat brands, so read labels carefully. More frequently the active ingredient nowadays is pyrethtin." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Although organophosphates are toxic to the environment, no neuro toxicity has been reported in humans as a result of topical lice treatment. lindane is a strong ohanochloride pesticide. Its use has become less desirable because of several reports of toxicity in the elderly, but it is still a treatment choice for small areas of the skin for less than 10 minutes at a time, which is how it is used to treat head lice. Ivermectin is a newer option that is effective and has virtually no side effects. It is currently being investigated for use on head lice." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"The workers risk appeared to be increased with specific chemicals, primarily those in the family of organophosphate pesticides like lindane and heptachlor, fumigants like methyl bromide, or triazine herbicides. Significant increases in the risk of developing prostate disease were linked to the use of chlorinated pesticides.39 One study looked at leisure-time exposure. It found an increased risk for men whose work or leisure activities consistently exposed them to the fumes or bodily absorption of certain chemicals." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"But Yarto was also aware, as were many others in the room that day, of the leap into a new era his country's position on lindane represented—particularly in the long-standing reliance Mexico has had on the United States. "Strong differences," he told me, "have emerged between our two countries at this time. If the United States follows policies that do not benefit the environment, then it is Mexico's opportunity to show leadership in terms of environmental decision making."" The Mexican proposal had particular poignancy for Janice Jensen." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of lindane for veterinary purposes for treatment of lice on animals; for people, the agency recommends its use for patients who cannot tolerate or have failed treatment with safer medication."10 For the first time, a developing country—Mexico —was proposing the ban of a chemical that was approved for use in the land of its long-dominant, and far richer, northern neighbor." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Thus, lindane appears in the 1992 federal government's Toxics Release Inventory for Tazewell County. I was stunned to discover it there as I scanned the long computer scroll that documents industry's emissions, dumpings, and transfers of toxic chemicals. lindane was banned for most uses in 1983, although it is still allowed in lice shampoos for humans and flea dips for dogs. Clearly, I have a more intimate relationship with lindane than I realized. Aldrin and dieldrin were banned in 1975, although aldrin was allowed as a termite poison until 1987." - Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (Get the book.)

"Mexico would also have to concern itself with lindane residues coming into their country, just as Americans once had to concern themselves with banned chemical residues coming into the United States on Mexican tomatoes and other crops.18 U.S. delegates returned from the POPS meetings in 2005 frustrated over being sidelined from the action. No one had stopped what they were doing because the United States refused to cooperate. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice started paying attention." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"One child's death was reported to have been the result of lindane poisoning after tteatment for head lice, and lindane is now known to cause convulsions, sei-zures, and cancer in laboratory animals. None of the half dozen brands of lice shampoo available at my local drugstore contain lindane, but it is still used in many populat brands, so read labels carefully. More frequently the active ingredient nowadays is pyrethtin." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Gustafson is a Texas-based subsidiary of the multinational chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer, headquartered in Germany. lindane was banned in Germany in 1996 (prior to being banned throughout the EU in 2001). When Weir and I wrote Circle of Poison twenty-five years ago, Bayer was one of the companies we identified as selling organochlorine pesticides like aldrin and dieldrin to Mexico and other developing countries, which it couldn't sell in the United States. Now many of those same chemicals are on the POPS list." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Considerations Q A topical scabicide called lindane (gamma benzene hexachloride, found in the product Kwell) was once considered a standard treatment for scabies. In recent years, however, it has largely been replaced by permethrin, which is believed to be safer and cause fewer side effects. Q Scabicides are not recommended for children under the age of six or for pregnant women. In such cases, a milder sulfur solution is usually recommended. Q It may take one to two weeks for the itching to subside, even after treatment." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The poison of choice for more than 30 years has been lindane, a cousin of the infamous and now banned pesticide DDT. lindane, available only by prescription, is toxic to people as well as lice because it is readily absorbed by the skin and can cause nervous system problems, even convulsions. This chemical is not exactly what you want to put on your preschooler's head when he or she comes home from school infested with lice. To make matters worse, strains of lice are becoming resistant to lindane, so there is a chance that it may not even work." - Kathi Keville, Herbs for Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Most hot dogs also contain benzene, dacthal, dieldrin, lindane, hormones, and many other potentially harmful ingredients such as antibiotics which do not have to be listed on the package. "They" are not telling us "the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," about what's in these meats because there is no law that says "they" have to provide this information. Chemical additives are allowed by our food and drug laws to be combined and listed on labels as, believe it or not, "natural flavors," and so forth." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Instead, DDT, lindane, DD, 2,4-D, and the other war-hero chemicals got almost all the attention from the farm journals, the government, and the scientists. The Howards did get Lady Eve Balfour's attention, though; using concepts she learned from the Howards, she helped start the Soil Association (England's organic certification organization) and wrote The Living Soil. The Howards also got American publisher J. I. Rodale's attention, and Rodale bought a farm in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, that became the American center for organic agriculture for the next forty years." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Several other "miraculous" chemicals followed as chlordane and lindane, like DDT, rapidly proved completely useless for killing flies. After spraying a chemical for only a couple of years, each one seemed to lose its killing power, and the flies returned with a vengeance. Many people had stopped using the fly sprays Flit or Bif some years earlier because they too had become useless. In spite of these setbacks, a belief in the necessity and ease of using the chemicals had seeped into our minds, and gradually it came to dominate nearly everyone's pest-management decisions." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

page 1 of 3 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.