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27 Σεπ 2024 · Lead exposure can have serious consequences for the health of children. Exposure to very high levels of lead can severely damage the brain and central nervous system causing coma, convulsions and even death.
10 Απρ 2024 · Protecting children from exposure to lead is important to lifelong good health. Even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to negatively affect a child’s health. Lead exposure occurs when a child comes in contact with lead by touching, swallowing, or breathing in lead or lead dust.
24 Μαΐ 2023 · Adverse health effects may occur in children and adults at BLLs <5 μg/dL. In children, health effects generally occur at lower BLLs than in adults. There is no identified threshold or safe level of lead in blood. The nervous system is the most sensitive organ system for lead exposure in children.
12 Απρ 2024 · Exposure to lead can seriously harm a child's health and cause well-documented health effects. These effects include damage to the brain and nervous system and slowed growth and development. Children may also have learning and behavior problems and hearing and speech problems.
21 Ιαν 2022 · Children younger than 6 years are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which can severely affect mental and physical development. At very high levels, lead poisoning can be fatal. Lead-based paint and lead-contaminated dust in older buildings are common sources of lead poisoning in children.
7 Απρ 2022 · Identifying and removing the exposure source are the mainstays of management in children with elevated BLC (≥0.1 μmol/L (≥2 μg/dL)). Lead exposure is particularly harmful to young children and fetuses.
Lead exposure during childhood causes adverse and permanent neurodevelopmental consequences, sometimes even with "low" blood lead levels. Symptoms are frequently silent, making lead exposure an often unrecognized and underestimated threat for pervasive neurocognitive disorders.
