Lead Poison
How do lead poison affect your body?
Symptoms of lead poisoning are varied. They may affect many parts of the body. Most of the time, lead poisoning builds up slowly. It follows repeated exposures to small quantities of lead.
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How do you know if you got lead poison?
Initially, lead poisoning can be hard to detect — even people who seem healthy can have high blood levels of lead. Signs and symptoms usually don't appear until dangerous amounts have accumulated.
What does lead poisoning come from?
Lead is a metal that hurts the brain, kidneys and nervous system of children.
Lead poisoning is caused by too much lead in the body. Most children get lead
poisoning from paint in older homes. Lead does not only come from paint.
Children can get lead poisoning from other places.