What Are Roundup Poisoning Exposure Symptoms? (2025)

How Exposure to Roundup Happens

Roundup is an herbicide that is sprayed on weeds. Glyphosate disrupts a plant’s metabolism, causing it to starve to death.

Symptoms from Roundup exposure typically only affect farmers and farm workers. In other words, studies have not found a solid causal link between Roundup exposure and eating or handling produce from fields treated with the herbicide.

Instead, exposure typically happens in the following ways:

• Inhaling Roundup while mixing it for use
• Inhaling aerosolized Roundup while spraying
• Absorbing Roundup droplets through the skin

In short, glyphosate usage is a more common and dangerous path for toxic exposure, rather than consuming food sprayed with the chemical.

Immediate Physical Reactions to Roundup Contact

Roundup is a powerful chemical. When Roundup touches exposed skin or eyes, the worker may experience the following symptoms:

• Burning
• Itching and irritation
• Redness and swelling

While these symptoms are bothersome, Roundup is not known to cause severe chemical burns or blindness due to contact exposure.

Symptoms of Ingesting or Inhaling Roundup

Ingesting or inhaling Roundup may be different. When glyphosate gets inside a victim’s body, it can cause long-term problems. The World Health Organization considers glyphosate a carcinogen, and research calls it an endocrine disruptor.

Short-term exposure causes nausea, vomiting and breathing difficulties. What cancers are included in the Roundup lawsuit? Long-term exposure might cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This cancer of the lymphatic system can produce the following symptoms:

• Fever
• Fatigue
• Inflamed lymph nodes
• Abdominal pain
• Breathing difficulties
• Weight loss

Fortunately, the survival rate of non-Hodgkin lymphoma is relatively high at 70% at five years.

When Roundup Exposure Becomes Dangerous

There is no definitive amount of exposure that can cause cancer. However, the following factors can increase an agricultural worker’s risk:

• Exposure over several years
• Application without personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Use of highly concentrated Roundup

Unfortunately, Monsanto’s warnings to use PPE were inconsistent, so many people might have been inadvertently exposed.

Long-Term Health Effects From Repeated Roundup Exposure

Repeated Roundup exposure may be one of the risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. If you develop this cancer, treatment may include radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. Although the cancer is relatively survivable compared to other cancers, the treatment can be debilitating, causing nausea, loss of appetite and fatigue.

Contact ConsumerShield to Discuss Your Roundup Poisoning Exposure Symptoms

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