What are the side effects from lead paint or any use of lead, & dose it effect everybody?
The greatest risk of injury from lead poisoning is to children under the age of seven, whose developing bodies and brains are sensitive to even small amounts of lead, which can leave children with irreversible injury that does not appear until many years after the exposure to lead. The kinds of injuries lead causes in children include: learning disabilities brain damage (sometimes subtle) loss of IQ points and intellect academic failure neuropsychological deficits attention deficit disorder hyperactive behavior antisocial (criminal) behavior neurological problems encephalopathy (brain swelling) major organ failure coma death But all this damage is really when there is an accumulation of it through digesting and breathing it in. Then it can get into your bones and organs. I had a friend who had a point of a pencil jabbed into her cheek and it’s still in there, 40 years later. IT hasn’t spread at all. There is no way it can get into her digestive system so they left it in. Taking it out
