Because pesticides are part of produce, the safety of the pesticides presented in products is a major concern for public. Other than the general public, another group of people directly affected by this issue is farmers. They usually work in the farm for a long period of time. Therefore, they have a high risk of exposures to pesticides. Pesticide exposures is one of the major occupational hazards in the country, and it caused serious health issues. This paper reviewed several scientific articles in order to demonstrate the associations between pesticide exposures and health issues among farmers. In addition, the significant health issues that caused by both short-term and long-term pesticide exposures would be …show more content…
The consequences were explained by the researchers. The short-term exposures to pesticides was related to symptoms such as headache, skin problems, and nausea, etc. Other than the subjective symptoms, researchers also discovered some physiological changes by conducting blood tests in order to provide more data in an objective point of view. They found out that short-term exposures (three days working in the farm) had significant effects on some health indicators such as hemoglobin, hematocrit, red blood cell, and monocyte percentage, etc. In addition, increased liver enzyme, blood urea nitrogen, and decrease in plasma protein are some examples of the effects obtained from the blood chemistry tests (Hu, Huang, Huang, Li, Zhang, Yin, Chen, Jin, Cai &Cui, 2015). These changes are all abnormal for the healthy body. Therefore, the tests showed that the short-term exposures had adverse effects on the farmers’ bodies. Moreover, it is reasonable to correlate the causes of the symptoms and the changes of health indicators. Furthermore, the symptoms may act as alerts for the body for the abnormal changes of the body. Another group of researchers found the similar results, and demonstrated the health problems of short-term pesticide exposures. Many pesticides were associated with many acute health problems, and one of them called organophosphate. It was associated with