Women may experience menstrual disorders . Men may develop testes and prostate cancer . Lead may cause menstrual disorders, loss of sex drive, atrophy of the testes, possible sperm alterations, decrease in fertility, and mutation. Carbon disulfide affects both male and female reproductive systems. Xylol and tulol cause menstrual disorders .
Cadmiums cause prostate cancer .
Some children of lead workers have lead poisoning from lead carried home on father's cloths. One major problem is that most chemicals, including art materials, haven't been tested to see if they cause mutations before pregnancy or damage to a fetus. In addition, pregnant women usually don't know for several weeks if they are pregnant and the first twelve weeks of pregnancy are the most important.