Sources:
- Lead paint
- Hobbies (metal sculpting, stained glass)
- Cigarettes
- Water passing through lead pipes
Symptoms of Toxicity:
- Stores in bones, liver, kidney, brain
- Better absorbed by children’s gastrointestinal tract
- Childhood brain and nervous system damage
- Pain, numbness
- Kidney damage
- Joint pain
- Heart rhythm changes
- Low blood count
- High blood pressure
- In males: decreased sperm count, testicular pain