The baby's lead poisoning was actually fed.
A baby in Chaozhou is just 5 months old. For a while, the baby suddenly lost his appetite and was unusually active. Whoever coaxes and hugs is restless. I also wake up frequently at night, sometimes more than 10 times a night.
When I went to the hospital to check, I found that the lead content in the baby's blood was as high as 209 μg/L (the normal range is between 0-100 μg/L)!
Half a month after treatment, another examination was done. Unexpectedly, the child's whole blood lead content did not drop but rose, reaching 330ug/L!
The doctor diagnosed that the baby not only had lead poisoning, but also impaired liver function!
It turned out that the baby began to drool, and the family entrusted people to get "home remedies" from their hometown in Chaoshan Province. These blue-black powders are packed in a small bottle without any labels on them and look mysterious.
The test results found that the lead content of the folk medicine was surprisingly high. These powders are the culprits of lead poisoning.
Don't think this case is far away, WHO suggests: an estimated 600,000 new cases of intellectual disability in children are caused by exposure to lead every year.
Children are more susceptible to lead poisoning than adults
Children are more likely to be victims of lead poisoning than adults. There are many reasons for this:
1. It is easier for babies to carry lead into the body
Most babies and toddlers have a habit of putting their hands in their mouths, and their height is at the height of car exhaust emissions.
2. The baby's absorption rate is higher
In the state of gastric emptying, the absorption rate of lead in the human body increases significantly, and children are more efficient than adults because of strong metabolism and stomach emptying. The absorption rate of lead by children's digestive tract is as high as 42% 53%, compared with only 5% 10% in adults, and the absorption rate of lead in children's respiratory tract is also 1.62.7 times higher than that of adults. After entering the body, the fluidity of lead in the child's body is also greater, and it is easier to flow into the blood and soft tissues, resulting in excessive blood lead standards and even poisoning!
The dangers of lead poisoning
1. Cause the child to develop slowly
A large accumulation of lead in the body disturbs the absorption of calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients, aggravates the damage of lead to the body, and causes children to develop slowly.
There are also many studies that show that lead poisoning also has an effect on cardiovascular abnormalities and osteoporosis in adulthood.
2. Affect the child's brain function
Lead has a neurological nature, that is, it likes to gather in the brain and other places, so the long-term high level of lead in the body will cause damage to brain function, and then a series of abnormal manifestations, such as: slow movement, aggressive behavior, etc.
3. Cause damage to tissues and organs such as the liver
Because the child's tissues and organs are not yet perfect, such as: the liver's detoxification function is poor, the renal tubular reabsorption ability is poor, coupled with the child's high absorption rate of lead and weak ability to drain lead, so about 1/3 of the ingested lead will remain in the body.
The World Health Organization reminds that there is no safe level of lead exposure.
Lead poisoning may be all around us
1. Newly renovated house
Some fake and shoddy paints and paint decorative materials on the market will contain high lead; some interior decorations also have a high lead risk.
2. Toys that children often touch
For example, some inferior toys or spray paint toys with excessive lead standards, the soluble lead with higher content in the paint layer of these toys will slowly enter the child's body, causing excessive lead absorption in children, resulting in lead poisoning.
Every year, the problem of lead exceeding the standard in different batches of toys will be broken out one after another:
3. Lead-containing folk remedies, drugs, cosmetics
Some lead poisoning is caused by parent feeding, such as lead-containing drugs (especially traditional Chinese medicines) and cosmetics.
4. Automobile exhaust and air pollution
More than 60% of the lead in the urban atmosphere comes from the combustion of leaded gasoline in cars. If a child inhales a large amount of leaded vapor, soot, dust, and car exhaust, it will also cause lead poisoning. According to disease control experts, in recent years, the intensive occurrence of children's blood lead poisoning incidents in many places has a similar characteristic: children's lives are surrounded by industrial enterprises containing heavy metals such as lead.
How to prevent lead poisoning in children?
1. Cultivate children to develop the good habit of washing their hands frequently, especially before eating.
2, cut nails for children frequently, nail seams are the easiest place to hide bacteria and lead dust.
3. Try to avoid the use of inferior spray paint toys, and often wash children's toys and supplies.
4, home cleaning as far as possible to use a wet mop to mop the floor, to avoid dust; often use a clean wet rag to clean the places that children touch.
5, try not to take children to the car traffic, poor air quality environment or lead operation factory near the walk, play, necessary to go out with a mask.
6, coal as fuel for home window ventilation; avoid passive smoking, smoke second-hand smoke.
7. Children should avoid contact with leaded household cosmetics, drugs, lead batteries, etc.
8, to ensure the intake of high calcium iron and zinc and other foods, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, these foods have the function of draining lead; do not eat traditional processes made of peeled eggs, popcorn, lead solder cans and other foods with high lead.
9, use cold water in the water pipe to boil water, or cook or steam food, instead of using the water of the hot water pipe to make food.