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Features of poisoning differ depending on whether the agent is an organic compound (one that contains carbon), or an inorganic one. [29] Organic lead poisoning is now very rare, because countries across the world have phased out the use of organic lead compounds as gasoline additives, but such compounds are still used in industrial settings. [29]
The children referenced in the report range in age from 1 to 3 years old. The CDC uses the amount of 3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood as a reference point to assess if a child has ...
Her 1-year-old son, Caiden, had been eating the cinnamon applesauce pouches almost every day for about a month. In March, a blood test revealed that Caiden had a blood lead level of 13 micrograms ...
The risk of lead-based paint from older homes is back in the news, as the government considers tightening the definition of lead poisoning in babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Lead poisoning is especially hazardous to children under six years of age. [8] High levels of lead at this age can produce impaired neurological development that results in lifelong problems. A 1996 study showed 43% of children ages 1–5 in the Superfund area had blood lead concentrations above the threshold considered dangerous by federal ...
Children under 6 are especially vulnerable to the effects of lead exposure, which is easily absorbed into their system, the CDC says.
The CDC now publishes a "reference" blood lead level which they hope can decrease in coming years. The reference value is "based on the 97.5th percentile of the BLL distribution among children 1–5 years old in the United States". [9] As of 2021, the value is set at 3.5 μg/dL. [5] It is not a level deemed by the CDC as "safe".
In December 2011, just two months after she and her husband moved in with their 1-year-old twins, Abdul-Majeed got a call from her pediatrician’s office. The level of lead in her daughter Zoe’s blood was alarmingly high at 21 micrograms per deciliter — an amount four times the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention threshold of 5 ...