New version of lead poisoning

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Well, sounds like an old version, but the unique retention of the pellets in the appendix caused what would have normally flushed through his system naturally to be retained where the lead could have longer residence times and greater effect.

This, "The boy and his siblings said they had been eating the pellets as part of a game the played," would worry me regardless.

I wonder how many pellets the kid ate as part of this "game" before he accumulated the 57 they removed!!!
 
That is crazy. I've been working as a Lead Paint Inspector for the past 13 years and have never heard of such a thing.
Just last month we had a mother feeding her child paint chips so she could sue her landlord.

Considering this pellets were hangin in his appendix, i'm really surprised his blood lead level wasn't much higher.
 
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Geez, remember when we drank out of the hose, or a creek, bit split shot sinkers onto our fishing line, and played with our dad's white lead putty, not to mention the Mercury in Chemistry class? :eek:

Just think what I might have made of myself if my faculties were intact, and not damaged by all the silly things we did!

My shrink told me it's O.K. to reload cast bullets if I wash my hands really well before I suck my thumb!:p

Feeding her kid lead paint chips so she could sure the landlord? Words fail!
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It's very important to wash your hands before you suck your thumb after handling lead. You don't want to lick the gray stuff off your fingers. You must have a really good shrink.

I think you forgot about the cyanide, strychnine, and chlordane that lied around with the mercury puddles that were in the pigeon holes in the garage of, well, my parents anyways, of us older guys. Not to mention blasting caps and dynamite. If my Dad told me to not play with something I knew better than to go near it and didn't question it.

I don't understand the kids of today. We had pier pressure to when we were kids but we didn't poison ourselves from a stupid daring game.

Just last month we had a mother feeding her child paint chips so she could sue her landlord
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Feeding your own child paint chips so you can sue your landlord?, why?, for beer and snuff money no doubt. That make me sick.
 
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He'll definitely have some sort of long term affect.
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I can't decide if this word choice was supposed to be as funny as it actually is...

Medically, affect is defined as "an outward, observable manifestation of a person's expressed feelings or emotions, such as flat, blunted, bland, or bright."

People with lead poisoning (which is largely treatable by chelation with EDTA) definitely have a change to their affect.
 
Geez, remember when we drank out of the hose, or a creek, bit split shot sinkers onto our fishing line, and played with our dad's white lead putty, not to mention the Mercury in Chemistry class
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You mean we were supposed to stop doing all these things? Man, how am I going to get lead shot sinkers to stay on the fishing line without biting them?
 
Been there, done all those things and more and I am still here. Don't bite split shot anymore because I gave up fishing because of declining number of fish and what fish there are, are protected by the tree huggers. Besides I don't have any teeth anymore to bite them with. A mother who deliberately poisons her child, my punishment for her would be illegal so I wont mention it. And then at work, I used to practically bathe in a wood preservative that has been banned for last 35 years. And a lot of stuff in grade school and high school shop classes in no longer allowed. Kind of funny, with all these regulations and bans the world is supposed to be a safer place but just the opposite has happened.
 
I am now 81 years old. As a kid on a Maine farm our water came to us via lead pipe from a well over a half mile away. I have been a hand loader and shot shell loader as an adult yet I never experienced lead poisoning symptoms. Apparently some people are more susceptible to it than others.
 
20 years ago I was very much into miniature wargaming, Napoleonics, modern micro armor, modern naval miniatures. I used to file flat the bases of miniatures and scrape off flashing with an exacto knife and blow the lead dust away. I thought nothing to of eating lunch or dinner on my workbench. Why, if I did that today I'd be dead! :rolleyes:
 
It definitely comes down to individual susceptiblity. In most cases, your body will get rid of half of the lead that you ingest. The other half is absorbed into the bone marrow. How much lead your body gets rid of depends largely on your diet. Lead takes the place of iron in the body because your body can't tell the difference between the two. If you take in more lead than iron, chances are, you'll have a high blood lead count. Iron as well as calcium will help rid the body of up to 50% of lead.

I know when I was a kid, we always had a protein on our plate as well as a vegetable. Nowadays, kids eat a bag of Doritos and a Mountain Dew for dinner. That's why lead poisoning is a bigger problem today than it was years ago.

All of us have lead in our bodies, but for most of us, it's such a small amount it doesn't effect us.

As far as lead pipes are concerned, most older housing stock still have lead pipes going into their homes from the main. Over the years, the inside of the pipes get calcified from the minerals in the water, thus forming a " protective barrier".

And for all the old timers who say they chewed on sinkers and whatever else......there were definitely side affects to that. It was just too minimal to even notice.
 
People who were lucky and never had any problems with lead shouldn't discount the danger from it. It really does bad things, and ignoring it's dangers is just nuts. I knew some kids who had some minor symptoms of lead poisoning, and their parents couldn't figure out where it was coming from, and the health department came in and started looking. Finally, it was found to be a couple of old wagons that their grandpa had fixed up for them, using some old paint he had sitting around. It was loaded. Luckily for them, their family doctor caught it before it caused permanent issues. I don't know what they did to clear it out of them, but their level was high enough all the other kids in the neighborhood, including me, got tested, but only the two brothers had high enough levels to require treatment. Grandpa was mortified.
 
My understanding is that the normal clinical treatment for lead poisoning is IV EDTA (chelation therapy). Because it also removes beneficial minerals, it's done in a hospital setting so that levels can be closely monitored and presumably supplements to replace the good minerals removed can be administered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelation_therapy

Lead also causes developmental issues, which can have permanent consequences even if the lead is later removed, which is why the young are more susceptible than mature adults to effects from lead poisoning.
 
I work in a leaded plant making lead/acid batteries. we get our blood/lead levels tested often. there are ways to work to not take in as much lead and other things to do to get the lead out. I take vitamin c and calcium along with a multi vitamin and need to add iron to that too. your body will also rid its self of more lead with a full stomach before you get around lead... the food in your stomach soaks up some of the lead the same way a full stomach soaks up some of the alcohol when you are drinking.
everybody is different and everyones body handle different things in different ways.
some people get the flu every years while others only get it once a decade.
just because a person took in some lead and didn't experience lead poisoning doesn't mean that person is immune to lead... everyones body has different tolerances for different things.
people with lead poisoning will have a high blood/lead level.
lead poisoning is no joke even though many people think it is.
lead is a toxic metal
 
An 8 year old eating pellets...I hate to say it but Darwin award right there.

And the article recommend copper as a suitable replacement to lead? Obviously a person who does not hunt in anyway. Copper is much more expensive than lead and would cause ammo to go up, more than it already has.
 
Well I like to live dangerously. Just this very day I handled an extension cord and DIDN'T wash my hands afterward. Just poking fun at the billboard warning labels on cords these days. :neener:

Seriously, eating lead pellets and feeding lead paint chips to your children? Wow. We laugh at how we did things as kids that are frowned upon today, but these people take this to a new level.
 
Well, I am minus both appendix and spleen. Guess those are two organs I don't have to worry about having a lead accumulation.

Just last month we had a mother feeding her child paint chips so she could sue her landlord.
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Reading things like this make me want to spit nails...and bring back hanging. :fire:

Edited to add: Public hanging.
 
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