Effects of Lead Poisoning
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Effects
of Lead Poisoning Unless the amount of lead poisoning is extremely high, effects of lead poisoning are not immediately apparent making the number of undiagnosed cases of lead poisoning high. Lead can enter your body when you put your hand or another object with lead dust on it your mouth, if paint chips or soil containing lead is ingested, or lead dust is breathed in. Effects of lead poisoning include, irritability, stomachaches, poor appetite, diarrhea, colic, distractibility, and lethargy. Blood tests can determine if lead poisoning is present. Mood swings, irritability, sever abdominal pain, headaches, and loss of motor coordination may also result from lead poisoning. Adults may suffer effects of lead poisoning and have kidney and neurological damage, anemia, hypertension, impotence, sterility, and miscarriages. The effects of lead poisoning are very significant on many aspects of the body's system, particularly in young children and fetuses. The younger the individual is, the the worse the effects of lead poisoning are. Lead is more dangerous to children is because babies and young children put their hands and other objects in their mouths more often than adults, which could contain lead dust. Young bodies also absorb more lead than adults do, affecting the development of young children by causing speech delay, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, neurological and renal damage, stunted growth, anemia, hearing loss, and sometimes mental retardation. Lead levels can be reduced in children with certain techniques, but the damage that the effects of lead poisoning causes is not always reversible.
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Children can suffer life- altering and extremely serious effects of lead poisoning: Damage to the nervous system and to the brain Behavioral problems/ learning disorder and problems Delayed/ slowed growth Hearing problems Headaches |
