Lead Paint Poisoning
Representing Patients Suffering Side Effects From Lead Paint Posioning
One of the largest health risks to children is lead paint poisoning. Lead interferes with a variety of body processes and is toxic to many organs and tissues including the heart, bones, intestines, kidneys, and reproductive and nervous systems. It interferes with the development of the nervous system and is therefore particularly toxic to children, causing potentially permanent learning and behavior disorders.
Symptoms include:
- abdominal pain
- confusion
- headache
- anemia
- irritability
- seizures
- coma
- and death
New York State requires health care providers test all children for lead with a blood lead test at age 1 year and again at age 2 years.
At every well-child visit up to age six, health care providers must ask parents about any contact their child might have had with lead.
