Lead poisoning, also called plumbism or painter’s colic, is a serious medical condition resulting from exposure to extreme levels of lead from the environment. It can cause irreversible neurologic and multiple systemic complications and even death. The effects of lead have been known throughout the centuries as it used to be a thriving industry and [...]
Benjamin Franklin once said – “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance” and this holds perfectly true for lead poisoning. With years of knowledge on toxic effects of various heavy metals like lead, they persist to be used extensively in various products of common use found in and around our homes posing threat [...]
Around a decade or so ago, lead poisoning in the workplace and at home became a common problem in the United States. Thus, as early as 1991, the United States government began issuing regulations concerning lead exposure for children and for adults at work. These regulations are strictly enforced, especially in industrial companies [...]
Testing for lead in your home is a very important task that you may have to undertake when you have young children or pregnant women living in your home. The presence of lead in your drinking water or in your house paint can poison you over time. In young children and in unborn [...]
Recent studies have shown that lead in paint is the most common way for both children and adults to be afflicted with lead poisoning. While lead-based paint is no longer commercially available in the United States, it nonetheless poses a problem to people living in homes built during the 1960s or earlier.
It was during the [...]
Lead is a soft, heavy, toxic, malleable, metallic element that was used for many years, and is still used in many countries, in products found in and around our homes. Although the federal government banned lead-based paints from housing in 1978, many homes continue to have lead-based paints. In developing world, lead paints are still [...]
To children, the greatest environmental threat is lead poising. Studies have revealed that lead absorption in children is higher by five-eight folds in children than in adults. If ingested or inhaled, approximately 11% of total ingested volume will reach the digestive tract in adults, whereas in children, around 30 to 60 percent of the ingested [...]
Lead is a soft, heavy, toxic, malleable, metallic element that can damage the nervous system if its levels increase the permitted levels in blood. In young, developing children it has a diverse array of annihilating effects. A prolonged exposure to the lead and/or its salts may lead to several disabilities like:
Learning disability.
Shortened attention span.
Lower IQ.
Behavior [...]
Over last few decades, lead poisoning has emerged as one of the major threats to environment and human health. There are many ways in which humans are exposed to lead: through deteriorating paint, household dust, bare soil, air, drinking water, food, ceramics, home remedies, hair dyes and other cosmetics. Much of this lead is of [...]
Lead is a highly toxic metal found in small amounts in the earth’s crust. Because of its relative abundance, low cost, and physical properties, lead and lead based compounds are frequently used in a wide variety of products including paint, ceramics, pipes, solders, gasoline, batteries, and cosmetics.
Both adults and children can suffer from the effects [...]
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