If you have been doing a lot of spraying or dusting, remove your clothes, take a shower, and put on clean clothes. Clothing should be laundered separately from the family wash. The washer should be run empty with detergent after cleaning pesticide-contaminated clothing. If you get sprayed, change and shower immediately. Use first aid procedures if necessary.
Most pesticides can cause severe illness, or even death, if misused.
But every registered pesticide can be used safely. Many accidental pesticide deaths are caused by eating or drinking the product, particularly by young children. Some applicators die or are injured when they breathe a pesticide vapor or get a pesticide on their skin. Pesticides can poison you in two ways. Acute poisoning, or toxicity measured by an LD 50 number, can kill or injure you after one exposure.