Antidepressant medications can be helpful for reducing depression symptoms in some people, especially in people with severe depression. Psychotherapy is also an effective treatment, either alone or in combination with medications.
dioxin. a highly toxic and teratogenic chlorinated hydrocarbon that is a trace contaminant in the herbicide 2,4,5-T. Acute poisoning causes vomiting, abortion, anestrus. Chronic poisoning causes liver damage, especially in dogs. Congenital defects caused include cranio-facial deformity and anasarca.
What is dioxin: Dioxin is a member of the class of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which resulted. from the deliberately accelerated production of 2,4,5âT, one of the components of Agent Orange.4 The. chemical companies that produced the herbicides claimed they were unaware of the dioxin.