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Table 1 The pediatric environmental history can be used to identify the absence or presence of risk factors associated with bladder exstrophy and other pediatric diseases

From: Household exposure to pesticides and bladder exstrophy in a newborn baby boy: a case report and review of the literature

Constitutional & genealogic factors

• Sex

 

• Race/ethnicity

 

• Family history

 

• Family tree

Reproductive history

• Pregnancies

 

• Hormonal therapy

Environmental factors

• Socioeconomic status

 

• Home

 

• Community

 

• Medical history of ionizing radiation

 

• Legal (alcohol & tobacco) and illegal drug use

 

• Pharmaceutics/medications

 

• Occupational exposures

 

• Hobbies

 

• Home remedies/herbal supplements

  1. The reproductive history, constitutional and genealogic factors, and environmental components form the basis of the pediatric environmental history and are shown here.
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Journal of Medical Case Reports

ISSN: 1752-1947