Devastating news in pregnancy on a growing fetus by radiation exposure

Devastating news in pregnancy on a growing fetus by radiation exposure

In the Past radiation leaks from nucleur power plants such as Chernobyl have proved to havehad asignificant effect of growing fetuses When parents livesin contaminated areas.

Vast amounts of radioactive material were released into the environment resulting in a radioactive cloud that spread overa lot of areasof Europe. Main areas ofcontamination that occurred around the Chernobyl reactorsurrounded areas that are now part of Belarus, Russia, and the Ukraine.

As people we are continually exposed to ionizing radiation from many natural sources, such as suns rays, and naturally in all the foods we eat, fluids we drink and the oxygen we breath. This is called natural background radiation.The surrounding areas were poluted from the radioactive materials most of the residents of the contaminated areas are low, for many people, doses to the thyroid gland wereeffected from ingestion of milk contaminated with radioactive iodine.If it was found in milk then other food supplies such as fruit and vegatables would also be contaminated too.

More cases of cancer occurred among people who were young children and teens at the time of thedissaster and lived in the most contaminated areas of Belarus.Radioactive iodine is short lived, if people had stopped ingesting the locally supplied contaminated milk to children for a few months following the accident. it is likely that most of the increase in radiation-induced thyroid cancer would not have happened.An elevated risk of leukaemia was first found among the survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan between two - five years later.

Birth defectswere reported in children born in parts of europe due to the Chernobylexposure.Down syndrome in babies peaked after the initial fallout of Chernobyl some 9 months later.

Turkey had effects with an increase in Neural tube defects during the growing embryonic phase of fetal development, the neural tube differentiates into the brain and spinal cord.Include Spina Bifida,Encephalocele,Anencephaly.

see also this site for an indepth look at the Chernobyl radiation crisis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects

So how will thehuge Japan earth quake with powerplant explosions effect the furture babies in surrounding countries? only time will tell.

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