Re: NYT: 42% of children who survived Katrina have respiratory problems- many...

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KC called it about the children of New Orleans, lack of tracking, etc. back

in 2005.

_http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/index.php?itemid=1648 & catid=17_

(http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/index.php?itemid=1648 & catid=17)

" Carstens, Moderator of Sickbuildings, a 1,700-member support group of

average citizens, who, according to the ACAAI and AAAAI, are experiencing

" presumed " debilitating mold illnesses - said, " The CDC keeps saying more

studies are needed to get a clear picture of the health effects related to

mycotoxins. I am not aware of any new CDC initiated studies of the matter or

even

any tracking of these illnesses. Nor have I seen any warning to the public

regarding the potential serious health effects of inhaling mycotoxins. I guess

the burden of proof will fall on the children of New Orleans. "

In a message dated 12/5/2008 5:45:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

quackadillian@... writes:

_http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05trailer.html_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05trailer.html)

" The health problems of Hurricane Katrina children are daunting. When the

Children's Health Fund, whose mobile health clinics have provided the only

doctors and psychologists available to many of these families, reviewed the

charts of children seen this year, researchers with the Mailman School of

Public

Health at Columbia University found that 41 percent under age 4 had

iron-deficiency anemia — twice the rate for children in New York City's

homeless

shelters. Anemia, often attributable to poor nutrition, is associated with

developmental problems and academic underachievement.

Forty-two percent of the children, who lived in trailers laced with

dangerous levels of formaldehyde, had allergic rhinitis or an upper respiratory

infection, the study found.

More than half of those ages 6 to 11 had a behavior or learning problem, yet

in the East Baton Rouge School District children can wait for as long as two

years to be tested for learning disabilities.

" Not only has their health not improved since the storm, " the study said,

" over time it has declined to an alarming level. "

Medical care, counseling and child care are hard to find. In that respect,

LaTonya London has been lucky. Her youngest children, born while the family

lived at Renaissance Village, have two of the 16 Early Head Start slots —

down

from 200 right after the storm — reserved for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina

in Baton Rouge. The baby, Edbony, was born with no forearms. Darren, 2, was

two months premature and suffers from asthma and delayed speech.

The eldest of Ms. London's five children, Darrell, 7, has developed behavior

problems so serious that he has already been suspended several times from

first grade, causing Ms. London to abandon plans to start vocational training,

she said. In response, she has resumed counseling sessions for Darrell at the

mobile clinic.

Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director of the Children's Health Fund, notes that

there is as yet no comprehensive method of tracking these children, who are

supposed to be the subject of a long-term study by the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. "

Sharon Noonan Kramer

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