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Kelatox Products: Detoxification: Heavy Metals: Lead

Heavy Metals: Lead

Lead is a serious danger to human physiology! Even at low levels (sub toxic)

Annual Lead Emissions

1 deg x 1 deg latitude/longitude grid (1,000 kg/yr) click here for live map

Lead Poisoning and emissions

Lead is less of an environmental hazard than it used to be, thanks to legislation passed in the 1970s banning it from gasoline and interior house paint. Unfortunately, however, lead contamination continues to be widespread. The primary source: lead-based paint found in an estimated 100 million homes and apartments built before 1978. Over time, paint peels from the wall and is ingested by small children, who will put almost anything in their mouths. Or it is released into the air as a fine dust when doors and windows are opened and shut.

Lead is also found in many of the foods we eat. Soil contamination, a result of years of auto emissions, has made lead an unwelcome part of the food chain. Many glass and ceramic items, including dishes, contain lead. Lead chromate, used as yellow and orange pigments, has even been found recently in some children's toys.

Lead toxicity affects people at all stages of life. In childhood, exposure causes irreversible damage to the central nervous system. The lead accumulates in the body, particularly in the bones.

Because lead has a long half-life, increasingly higher stores of lead build up in the skeleton as a person ages, and serve as an internal source of lead exposure throughout life.

During pregnancy, lead absorption is increased even more than usual, and the fetus is particularly sensitive to the toxic effects of lead.

Lead Poisoning in the top ten American Cities

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention - Reportable

Blood Lead Levels by State in Micrograms per Deciliter (ug/dL)

Psychiatric Disturbances

ADD
ADHD
Aggressive behaviors
Anorexia
Chronic fatigue (CFS)
Depression
Eating disorders
Flat affect
Impaired facial recognition
Impaired visual fixation
Irritability
Lacks eye contact
Loss of appetite/weight
Malaise
Mood swings
Sleep difficulties/disturbances
Temper tantrums
Weakness

Cognitive Impairments

Attention deficits (ADD, ADHD, response inhibition)
Borderline intelligence
Impaired reaction time
Low IQ scores
Lower performance on timed tests
Mental retardation
Poor concentration
Poor memory (short term, verbal, and auditory)
Uneven performance on IQ scores

Sensory Abnormalities

Hearing loss
Motor Disorders
Convulsion
Seizure

Physiological Impairment,
Brain and Central Nervous System
Abnormal EEGs
Alterations in nerve conduction velocity
Autonomic disturbances
Encephalopathy
Neuritis
Neuropathy
Retrobulbar neuritis

Gastrointestinal Tract

Abdominal pain
Burning of the throat of the mouth
Stomach cramps

Renal and Hepatic Impairment

Histological alterations
Kidney damage
Kidney disease
Kidney failure
Renal toxicity
Tubular proteinosis

Cardiovascular System

Hypertension
Cardiovascular
Disease
Electrocardiac disorders
Increased heart rate (tachycardia)
Peripheral vascular disease
Vascular collapse
Immune System

Immunosuppression

Reproductive System

Birth defects
Premature births
Spontaneous abortion

Other Physical Disturbances

Acrodynia
Colic
Headache
Muscle pain

Reference: Published in the August issue of Alternative &Complimentary Therapies (magazine for doctors) and Published in Townsend Letter for Doctor's and Patients

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