[Occupational exposures, diet and storing: Recommendations to reduce environmental pollutants in breastfeeding].

The pollution of the planet also reaches the breastfeeding ecosystem, one of the most intimate and inviolable that links us as an animal species to the rest of mammals. Nursing mothers may be concerned about whether the quality of their milk will be adequate for their baby and whether environmental pollutants through work, diet, and storing may adversely affect their child. Breast milk is a source of exposure to environmental pollutants, and at the same time it counteracts much of the effects of these exposures.

[Environmental health nursing. Experience in a pediatric environmental health specialty unit].

Nursing occupies a strategic and privileged position to address many of the issues concerning children's environmental health. Nurses are the health professionals that work most closely with patients and their families and are in an excellent position to identify children at risk and advise their parents about the best practice to reduce or prevent environmental threats. Pediatric environmental health specialty units (PEHSU) can help to train and support nurses in this task.

Paediatric environmental health speciality units in Europe: integrating a missing element into medical care.

Paediatricians are in an excellent position to identify children with environmental risk, to advise their parents about the best way of reducing or preventing such risks, and to recommend actions to the responsible politicians involved. Paediatric environmental health speciality units (PEHSU) can help to qualify and support paediatricians in this task. PEHSU is defined as a unit within a paediatric hospital or clinic that is able to recognize, assess, and prevent environment-related health risks, to help other paediatric specialists in the management of such diseases in children, as well as to provide education, training, and research, putting emphasis on thorough and adequate establishment of paediatric environmental histories (PEHis) and to the application of the precautionary principle.