How to detect lead poisoned body

Blood tests show that your body has lead poisoning; Lead content from 40 to less than 69 mg / dl is mildly toxic, from 70 to 100 average, over 100 is heavy.

Dr. Huynh Quang Dai, General Department of Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy for Resuscitation, said that lead is a heavy metal, strong toxicity, capable of accumulating Bioaccumulation in the body will gradually cause illness. This metal is odorless, tasteless, so it is impossible to detect its existence in food by the eyes, only when it is determined.

Lead can infect water, food, food ., in small amounts within the prescribed threshold is not harmful because it will be excreted in urine, sweat. However, daily use with lead content exceeding the threshold, will gradually accumulate, causing chronic lead poisoning, manifested by anemia, dizziness, dizziness, fever and neurological effects.

Blood tests tell you if you have lead poisoning.(Artwork: Health).

Lead poisoning is divided into 2 groups. The first is acute causing increased intracranial pressure, acute brain damage, neuron, common symptoms are vomiting, drowsiness, coma, convulsions. The second is chronic , toxins accumulate gradually in the body. The smaller the child, the more severe the harm and the neuronal dysfunction. Children may experience hyperactivity, cognitive neuropathy, and reduced intelligence (IQ). Lead poisoning is considered alarm poisoning and is specially controlled in the United States.

Patients with lead poisoning should be taken to an emergency hospital and use intensive lead antidote. In case of chronic poisoning, it is necessary to eliminate the possibility of contact with lead from soil, sand, construction materials, water sources to be tested for lead contamination, not to expose babies to batteries. In diets, iron and calcium should be added.

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning issued by the Ministry of Health specify: Lead does not have a physiologically beneficial role for the body. The normal total blood lead concentration is below 10mg / dl, the ideal concentration is 0 . People can come into contact with lead through various sources such as:

Lead does not have a physiological benefit to the body.

1. Food : Canned food has a solder paste that uses lead, lead cookware, and contaminated food sources from the environment due to poor control.
2. Male medicines : used for drinking, topical, folkly called orange medicine, tongue medicine . illegally circulated with lead (single pink).
3. Son has the following : Old paints, lead paint toys.
4. Habitat : Dust from old lead paint, soil contaminated with lead paint, industrial pollution with lead, using leaded gasoline, water from contaminated soil, lead water pipes (old pipes), Air from industrial activities has lead, smoke due to gasoline has lead.
5. Occupation at high risk of exposure to lead such as repair of engine radiators, glass production, instruction for shooting practice, collection of bullets, burning, lead cooking, lead refining, casting, lead cutting, paint, workers construction (working with lead paint), production of polyvinyl chloride plastics, demolition, unloading, production, repair and reuse of batteries.
6. Other lead sources : Handmade ceramic utensils have lead, lead shrapnel on the body, leaded batteries, fishing nets with lead.

As a recommendation, in case of suspected lead, people can go to hospitals to request this toxin test in the blood as well as clinical tests. A person is diagnosed with lead when: Exposure to sources of lead or suggestive symptoms, and blood lead testing is higher than 10mg / dl (mandatory standard).

How to handle lead poisoning

1. As recommended by medical experts, in case of suspected lead infection, go to hospitals to ask for this toxic test in the blood as well as clinical tests.
2. Next, stop contacting with lead sources causing poisoning.
3. Finally, treat the symptoms of poisoning (coma, convulsions that need to be treated, blood transfusions if severe anemia); detoxification when exposed to lead - still on the skin, eyes, in the digestive tract and not absorbed into the blood. It can be washed with soap, gastric lavage, intestinal wash, endoscopic lead in the gastrointestinal tract. Use antidote to remove lead through urine.

Treatment of lead poisoning takes time, which can last for months to years as lead is usually attached to the bone.