One of the problems our world is suffering today is chemical pollution. Manmade chemicals and metals have led to the contamination of air, water and soil which are part of nature that we, humans cannot avoid being exposed to. moreso, used in our lives.
Pollutants from our environment work their way into water and air and eventually end up in plants and animals. From there, they work their way up to food that we, humans eat. what is sad is that this pollutants attach and accumulate themselves to human bodies rather then detach from it.
Over the last 24 years, studies show that polluting chemicals, one of which is lead, invade the most natural source of nourishment which is mother’s milk. Chemicals such as lead build up in fatty tissues of human and eventually work their way up into the mothers milk when the body calls on fat supplies for lactation.
In 2004, a pharmacy student from the University of the Immaculate Conception, Davao City, Philippines, conducted a research study entitled, lead Levels in Breast Milk of Urban and Rural Nursing Mothers”, that showed significant lead content in the breastmilk collected from mothers from urban and rural areas.
In the experimentation, it was found that 5 out of 5 of the mothers from the rural and urban areas have measurable levels of lead. This exceeded the provisional tolerable lower range for lead intake of a 10kg child, which is 6-18 microgram per day and basing on the amount of breastmilk consumed by an infant which is 160ml/kg/day. This amount of breast milk will be a threat to infants which might cause suble effects in their brains’ function which will eventually become the source of lead poisoning in infants.
