The document discusses lead poisoning in children, how children are commonly exposed to lead through deteriorated lead-based paint and lead-containing products, and the serious health effects lead poisoning can have on children such as intellectual disabilities, hearing loss, and attention problems. It provides recommendations for preventing lead poisoning in children including screening, frequent hand washing, using cold water for drinking and cooking, testing for lead in older homes, and educating families on reducing lead exposure.

1. LEAD POISONING IN
CHILDREN
Nguyễn Thị Thu Phương
Group 1.
LEAD POISONING IN CHILDREN
Nguyễn Thị Thu Phương. Group 1.

2. Content
1. Introduction about lead and lead
poisoning in children
2. How children are exposed to lead
3. Effects of lead poisoning on children’s
health
4. Prevention
5. Conclusion

3. Introduction
 Lead:
+ a soft, malleable metal,
a heavy metal , a toxic metal
+ used in many products

4. Introduction
 Lead Poisoning
+ Classify: Acute lead poisoning
Chronic lead poisoning
+ No known safe blood lead
concentration.
+ a serious health problem

5. Example: Many children have
lead in blood.

6. 2. How children are exposed to lead
Paints: the main cause of
lead poisoning
in children
.

7. 2. How children are exposed to
lead
+ Lead was used in paint from
1884 to 1978.
+ “Deteriorated lead-based paint
is one of the leading causes of
lead poisoning in Detroit children”
Sources: “Detroit River-Western
Lake Erie Basin Indicator Project
INDICATOR: Lead Poisoning in
Detroit,
Michigan”.
http://www.epa.gov/med/grosseile_site/indicators/lea
d.html

8. 2. How children are exposed to
lead
 Lead containing products:
plastic toys, bottles, cans…

9. 2. How the children be exposed
to lead
 Breast feeding: the presence of the
lead in the affected female milk makes
children to be exposed to lead.

10. Young chidren are particularly
vulnerable
All children under the age of 6 years
old
and poor children are at high risk.

11. Effects of lead poisoning on
children health
• Affects multiple body system, particularly
harmful to young children.
• Contributes to about 600.000 new cases
of children developing intellectual
disabilities every year. (WHO, Oct 2014)

12. Effects of lead poisoning on
CHILDREN health

13. Effects of lead poisoning on
CHILDREN health
 Hearing loss  Attention problems

14. Recommendations to Family
(parents, child keeper)
 Have child screened
 Frequently wash child’s
hands, toys.
 Only use cold tap water
for drinking, cooking
 Test paint dust in home if
it was built before 1978
Preventing lead poisoning in
children

15. Recommendations to Health-Care
Providers and Community-Based
Health and Social Service Agency
 Update or establish and
enforce regulatory
requirements for lead
safe house
 Promote use of lead-safe
products and repair older
homes
 Provide information to
caregiver about
temporary measures that
can reduce lead
exposure
Preventing lead poisoning in
children

16. Preventing lead poisoning in
children
Recommendations to Health-Care Providers and Community-
Based Health and Social Service Agency
 Educate to all pregnant women and families about
sources of lead and ways to reduce exposure

17. Recommendations to Health-Care
Providers and Community-Based Health
and Social Service Agency
 Practice education and
screening programs to
children with the greatest
risk for lead exposure
 Training of staff engaged
in housing renovation

18. 5. Conclusion
Lead has had serious
consequences for the
health of children,
but lead poisoning is
completely preventable.

19. 1. WHO, 2014, Lead poisoning and health
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/
2. Detroit River-Western Lake Erie Basin Indicator Project,
Lead Poisoning in Detroit, Michigan
http://www.epa.gov/med/grosseile_site/indicators/lead.
html
3. Sajad AI Ramahy, Lead poisoning
http://www.slideshare.net/SajadAlramahy/lead-
poisoning-7794639
REFERENCES

20. Preventing lead poisoning
programs in children
 St. Lawrence County
Public Health
Department
Lead Screening
Program
 http://www.co.st-
lawrence.ny.us/Departme
nts/PublicHealth/LeadScr
eeningProgram

21.  National Lead Poisoning
Prevention Week:
October 19-25, 2014 in
USA

22. From Kansas Department of
Health and Environment
http://www.kshealthyhomes.org/lea
d_poisoning_prevention.htm