Preventing Lead Poisoning

Preventing lead poisoning in children.

Lead poisoning is the most significant and prevalent disease of environmental origin among US children. Despite over 100 years' knowledge of the special hazards of lead exposure for young children, it has taken over a century for effective primary prevention to be adopted. Obstacles to primary prevention have included deliberate campaigns by industry to prevent restrictions upon such uses on le...

Preventing Lead Poisoning in China

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) constitute a particular family of tandem repeats found in a wide range of prokaryotic genomes (half of eubacteria and almost all archaea). They consist of a succession of highly conserved regions (DR) varying in size from 23 to 47bp, separated by similarly sized unique sequences (spacer) of usually viral origin. A CRISPR cluste...

Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children

If possible, all surfaces painted with lead-based paint should be abated by replacement, encapsulation, or paint removal. Ordinary paint is never an appropriate encapsulant; it is only part of a temporary maintenance procedure. Encapsulation materials should be durable and, where possible, affixed with both fasteners and adhesive. Paintlike coatings should be used with caution. Only coatings an...

Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children

CHAPTER 4. THE ROLE OF THE PEDIATRIC HEALTH-CARE PROVIDER ANTICIPATORY GUIDANCE SCREENING FOR CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING DOING APPROPRIATE DIAGNOSTIC BLOOD LEAD TESTING INTERPRETATION OF BLOOD LEAD LEVELS EDUCATING PARENTS ABOUT REDUCING BLOOD LEAD LEVELS HOUSEKEEPING INTERVENTIONS OTHER INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE EXPOSURE TO LEAD NUTRITION COORDINATING WITH PUBLIC SECTOR OFFICIALS APPROPRIATE FOLLOWUP

Preventing lead poisoning in young children.