Talk:Malathion

message: This article should contain information about malathion use during World War II. It should be added.
--TJRana (talk) 20:08, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Malathion Use during World War II

message: In regards to malathion and chronic poisoning, there is no evidence for this. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mmg154.html
Fixed up this whole paragraph in an attempt to make it neutral, and not avoid facts that are given in the references.
"Complete recovery generally occurs within 10 days unless severe lack of oxygen has caused residual brain damage. CNS effects such as confusion, fatigue, irritability, nervousness, and impairment of memory can occasionally last for several weeks. There is no evidence that malathion induces delayed neurotoxicity.
Chronic Exposure
Persistent weakness and impaired memory have been reported to occur from low-level exposures to some organophosphates in the absence of acute cholinergic effects, but there is no reliable information on adverse health effects of chronic exposure to malathion." 
The reason I removed this statement in the first place is it seems to be deliberately written in an overly alarming way. corvus.ag (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find a reliable reference, then by all means include LA County. Freestyle-69 (talk) 22:22, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronic toxicity? 

message: This line should probably be rephrased: It is possible to dilute the mixture to the point where mosquitoes are not killed, but become more resistant to the mixture, making it less  effective in subsequent foggings. Drutt (talk) 15:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lamarck was right!

message: Is this thing a thiomalate? Doctor House would like it. Albmont (talk) 12:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, an entirely unrelated substance. Doctor House wouldn't like this one, it stinks terribly. Colchicum (talk) 12:55, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why the stench? Would it be due to the binding of the SH ions to the Carbayl group, that might give its odourous tell-tale? Richard416282 (talk) 04:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thiomalate? 

message: ADHD in kids tied to organophosphate pesticides:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64G41R20100517
Can we please fix reference footnote [3] to cite the actual study and not a reuters or los angeles times coverage of the article? Actual article: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2010/05/17/peds.2009-3058.abstract  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.192.233.62 (talk) 19:33, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the news report is the better source. See WP:RS. Kendall-K1 (talk) 16:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADHD 

message: http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/pestsales/07pestsales/usage2007_3.htm#3_7
The EPA Data shows it being the second most common, after chlorpyrifos. Data in the currently cited article must come from 2005, whereas 2007 it switched.````  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Triggerdog91 (talk • contribs) 20:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second most common organophosphate 

message: The opening paragraph is a lexicon of medical jargon. Yes. That is a very good definition , but it is not for the lay-person. 
::Malathion is an organophosphate parasympathomimetic which binds irreversibly to cholinesterase. Malathion is an insecticide of relatively low human toxicity. In the former USSR, it was known as carbophos, in New Zealand and Australia as maldison and in South Africa as mercaptothion.[3]
Suggested replacement text.
Malathion is an insecticide. It has been tested to be relatively low in toxicity to humans. [Source Needed]
Medical definition:Malathion is an organophosphate parasympathomimetic which binds irreversibly to cholinesterase.
Other names:In the former USSR, it was known as carbophos, in New Zealand and Australia as maldison and in South Africa as mercaptothion.[3]
Richard416282 (talk) 04:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening paragraph Medical Jargon

message: Something looks to be wrong with the statement about peroxide being a leaving group.  Source?199.242.209.6 (talk) 13:45, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it appears to be wrong because malathion has no peroxide group to become a leaving group. But at the very least, even if there's something more complex going on, it lacks context and explanation to be meaningful, so I have removed the statement.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:04, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Peroxide leaving group?