Healthy Living
Lead Poisoning and Your Kids: Learn How to Prevent It, Know the Facts
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Nearly half a million children living in the United States have elevated blood lead levels that may cause significant damage to their health, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. No amount of lead is safe for the body. Editor’s note: This article is taken from a news release from the Connecticut Department of Public Health and from various parts of the department’s Web pages on preventing lead poisoning. There is no known safe level of lead, and yet it’s in most older houses and in older water pipes. Lead accumulates in the body and degrades brain functioning.