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Lead is toxic heavy metals should not be present in the human body, however, in recent years, with the worsening of environmental pollution, the effects of lead pollution has become a major health hazard, the majority of the human body there is a small amount of lead, and when people through food, dust, paint, water ingestion or inhalation of excessive lead poisoning occurs, thereby affecting nerve, blood, digestion, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, and other organ systems, seriously endanger their health, compared with adults, children are the brunt of lead contamination.

Lead poisoning is usually due to long in an environment containing trace lead such as home, workplace, etc, may also lead to human exposure to high concentrations of quickly.

Half years, childhood lead poisoning incident in frequent, sounded the alarm. Children's exposure to lead of the most common source is leaded paint as well as dust, dirt, and some lead in toys and jewelry in some will contain high levels of lead. Lead poisoning in children caused by multiple organ systems particularly nervous system damage, in the children's growth and development process cause the behavior, listening, learning, growth retardation, irreversible damage, resulting in a child with mental retardation, haemoglobin, etc. For adults, lead poisoning can cause serious health problems, including high blood pressure, headache, vomiting, nausea, muscle weakness, irritability, mood and personality changes, changes in sleep patterns, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, forgetful, etc.

Although lead poisoning the body is the most serious health risk, diagnosis of poisoning is difficult, especially if the symptoms of lead poisoning and other disease symptoms are very similar.

Blood tests can lead content test bleeding (µ g/l or d µ g/100 g), United States Centers for disease control provides blood lead level of safety should be lower than 25 µ g/l d, which also explains the lead in humans accumulation is extremely widespread. For children, blood safety levels are much lower, the present provisions is not to exceed 10 d µ g/l. However the latest research has shown that blood even less than 10 µ g/d l may also affect a child's IQ.

Understand the hazards of lead poisoning, daily life is going to raise the awareness of self protection, as far as possible, avoid exposure to lead, then, as a human health killer of what are the main source of lead?

1, the most common sources of lead is leaded paint, coatings and dust, the Earth's lead.

For example, flaking, scratch-off paint Council suspended dust drop in room or contamination in the soil around housing. The level of lead in paint to ppm 【 parts per million (ppm) 】 for measurement units, and paint lead concentrations can judge the application after the risk degree. At present, the lead concentration 600PPM is permissible.

2. use a leaded paint toys

3, motor vehicle exhaust and tobacco

4, cosmetics such as mascara, eye shadow

5, leaded Crystal, lead-glazed pottery

6, food, for instance, is in the lead-contaminated soil, growing vegetables, as well as stored in the food in a container containing lead

7, leaded taps and lead welded pipe flow out of the water in

8. air pollution by lead, especially lead smelter or other use of lead in air industrial zone

9, some printed materials such as plastic bags printing with ink

10, some people in the work or some hobby may be exposed to lead, including lead smelter, auto repair, refining of precious metals, construction industry (especially the conversion or renovation), cleanup (such as the removal of asbestos, or other dangerous waste-related work), battery production or recycling, etc.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)