- Keep your home clean and free from dust. The best way to clean up lead dust is to regularly mop your floors wet, wipe windows ledges, and wash all surfaces with water and household detergent.
- Take off your shoes before entering the house. Make sure they are wiped well on a doormat outside the house. This will help prevent lead dust and soil from getting into the house.
- Change out some of work clothes and take a shower before coming home if you work with lead in your job. Lead dust brought home on the clothes of workers can spread in the house and poison children. Lead is used in many work places such as radiator repair shops, battery manufacturing plants, and lead smelters.
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Ways to prevent lead poisoning
#1
Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:30 PM
#2
Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:31 PM
- Never sand, burn, or scrape paint unless you know that it does not contain lead.
- Test painted surfaces for lead in any area that they plan to remodel, before the work begins. If the work is not done the right way, lead dust can scatter and poison the family and even your pets.
- Practice healthy eating habits. Healthy meals as a diet may take it harder for lead to harm you. Eat lots of fruits and vegetable as well as calcium-rich foods such as milk, cheese, yogurt, corn tortillas and iron-rich foods such as meat, chicken, iron-fortified cereals, raisins, and dried fruit.
- Wash your hands often especially before eating.
#3
Posted 24 December 2011 - 07:30 AM
And also avoid using products like food containers that could have lead and could combine on foods to be stored on. And avoid buying products like toys that can contains lead.
#4
Posted 24 December 2011 - 04:21 PM
#5
Posted 24 December 2011 - 06:17 PM
#6
Posted 26 December 2011 - 02:22 PM
#7
Posted 11 February 2012 - 04:54 PM
joeldgreat, on 19 December 2011 - 04:30 PM, said:
- Keep your home clean and free from dust. The best way to clean up lead dust is to regularly mop your floors wet, wipe windows ledges, and wash all surfaces with water and household detergent.
- Take off your shoes before entering the house. Make sure they are wiped well on a doormat outside the house. This will help prevent lead dust and soil from getting into the house.
- Change out some of work clothes and take a shower before coming home if you work with lead in your job. Lead dust brought home on the clothes of workers can spread in the house and poison children. Lead is used in many work places such as radiator repair shops, battery manufacturing plants, and lead smelters.
joeldgreat, on 19 December 2011 - 04:31 PM, said:
- Never sand, burn, or scrape paint unless you know that it does not contain lead.
- Test painted surfaces for lead in any area that they plan to remodel, before the work begins. If the work is not done the right way, lead dust can scatter and poison the family and even your pets.
- Practice healthy eating habits. Healthy meals as a diet may take it harder for lead to harm you. Eat lots of fruits and vegetable as well as calcium-rich foods such as milk, cheese, yogurt, corn tortillas and iron-rich foods such as meat, chicken, iron-fortified cereals, raisins, and dried fruit.
- Wash your hands often especially before eating.
That's nice to know. I was tested for toxic metals about a year ago and they found I had over thirteen times the normal concentration of lead in me! I had no idea and no real symptoms of lead poisoning. It was probably more of a case of long-term exposure for me, being an electronic technician for the past nearly fifteen years. All I had to do was a liver cleanse. So if we keep a regular check-up and ask the doctor to test for these things specifically, they're not that difficult to treat, especially if we look after ourselves everyday and watch our diet.
#8
Posted 14 March 2012 - 08:35 AM
#9
Posted 17 March 2012 - 03:02 AM
Coincidentally, a CDC advisory panel recommended in January that the threshold at which a child is deemed to
have lead poisoning should be cut in half, from 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood to 5.
CDC's funding for lead poisoning prevention -- down to $2 million this year from $29.2 million last year -- is primarily funneled to state health departments for childhood screening, education programs and data collection.
Another large chunk of money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
This support for cities, counties and states to get lead hazards out of homes has also shrunk in recent years.
The use of lead in household paint peaked prior to 1950.
A final ban went into effect in 1978. Older, less well-maintained homes are therefore more risky.
Yet an estimated 38 million homes in the U.S. still have lead-based paint.
Consider a child who gets to third grade and can't meet reading scores.
Kids poisoned by lead are seven times more likely to drop out of school."
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#10
Posted 19 March 2012 - 08:46 PM
#11
Posted 20 March 2012 - 09:50 AM
#12
Posted 26 March 2012 - 11:49 PM
#13
Posted 17 May 2012 - 05:20 AM
should be cut in half, from 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood to 5.
By accepting the panel's recommendation, the CDC now effectively increases the number of children under
age 6 with elevated blood lead levels from approximately 77,000 to 442,000.
An estimated 38 million homes in the U.S. still have lead-based paint, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Funds for the CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention Program have been cut by 93 percent --
down to $2 million this year from $29.2 million last year. "
Source
"Some of the cuts Republicans want to make so millionaires can get their money back --
$770 billion to Medicaid, $205 billion to Medicare, $1.6 trillion to the health care law,
and nearly $2 trillion to other mandatory cuts."
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Lead poisoning is the least of the gop concerns.
#14
Posted 14 December 2016 - 11:42 PM
#15
Posted 15 December 2016 - 04:29 PM
Or to over 30 other cities in USA with lead in their drinking water.
http://www.esquire.c...isis-33-cities/
And let's not forget that #DonTheCon wants to eliminate the EPA completely.
http://www.cnn.com/2...-water-systems/
10 worst according to this site-
https://santevia.com...drinking-water/
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