What are the hazards associated with lead based paint?
Today we recognize the dangers of lead-based paint as a major source of lead poisoning for children and adults. In children, lead poisoning can cause irreversible brain damage and can impair mental functioning. It can retard physical and mental development, reduce attention span and retard fetal development even at very low levels of exposure.In adults, it can cause irritability, poor muscle coordination, nerve damage to the sense organs, nerves controlling the body and may also increase blood pressure. Thus, young children, fetuses, infants, and adults with high blood pressure or pregnant women are the most vulnerable to the effects of lead.Exposure to lead paint dust is the primary way young children are exposed to lead. Ingesting and inhaling lead dust that is created as lead-based paint “chalks,” chips, or peels from deteriorated surfaces can expose consumers to lead. Walking on small paint chips found on the floor, or opening and closing a lead painted frame window, can also creat
