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Protect children from lead poisoning

2020-11-03

October 25-31 is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Each year National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (NLPPW) is a call to bring together individuals, organizations, industry, and state and local governments to raise awareness of lead poisoning prevention and reduce childhood exposure to lead. This year’s NLPPW highlights the many ways parents can reduce their children's exposure to lead and prevent the serious health effects of lead. Have you ever heard of lead poisoning? Today, we're going to talk about lead poisoning. Lead poisoning is more common in children. Children are our future. There are some ways to let them grow up in a healthy environment. The first thing we need to do is to provide them with green, environment-friendly and non-toxic products. As more and more families choose to travel with their whole family, children also need green hotel amenities, which is also one of the original intentions of Quadranteco.

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When it comes to lead poisoning, the first thing we need to know is what lead is. It is a naturally occurring element and small amounts of lead are found in the earth's crust. Although it has some beneficial USES, it can be toxic to humans and animals, causing health effects. Lead is everywhere in our environment -- air, soil, water, even in our homes. Lead and lead compounds are used in a wide variety of products in and around our homes, including paints, ceramics, plumbing and plumbing materials, solders, gasoline, batteries, ammunition and cosmetics. It's very important to protect our families from lead.

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Lead is found in many parts of life. For example, old houses were also found to contain lead paint, which was harmful to people; Lead content in cosmetics is not low, such as lipstick and makeup powder; In addition, when the lead pipe material corroded, the lead will enter the tap water or drinking water pipe. If people drink the drinking water or use the tap water containing lead, it will cause great harm to the body, and even have an indelible influence on the children. Lead poisoning not only causes anemia, but in severe cases affects the nervous system, leads to cognitive decline and affects brain development.


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How can we prevent such terrible lead poisoning? Here are a few tips to consider:

1. Reduce all kinds of garbage to our living space pollution; Avoid exposure to lead, such as the treatment of automobile exhaust, and promote the use of unleaded gasoline; To develop pigments and coatings without lead; Eat little or no food containing lead; Do not drink tap water stored in leaded pipes for a long time, and discharge overnight water from indoor leaded pipes in the morning before use; Pregnant women try not to use cosmetics, hair dye.

2. As far as possible away from lead contaminated industrial areas, high lead work staff should take protective measures; Do not play or walk on the side of the road to reduce the absorption of lead in the respiratory tract; Children should develop the good habit of washing their hands with running water, before meals, after using the toilet, after studying, after playing, after going out and before eating fruits, so as to reduce the absorption of lead through the digestive tract. To carry out regular detection of lead indicators in the body, once found lead poisoning should take immediate treatment measures.

3. Children and pregnant women can supplement their diets with calcium to reduce lead poisoning; In addition, foods rich in vitamins C, E, B6 and B-carotene also help reduce lead levels. Increasing protein intake can reduce lead absorption.

4. Have you noticed that many children have the bad habit of biting pencils? Some parents thought it was just fun and that a bite would be fine. In fact, children biting pencils can be very harmful. The biggest threat to pencil biting is lead poisoning. Not only is the lead content high in the pencil lead, but the paint coating on the pencil is also high in lead. Lead poisoning is a chronic process, an "invisible killer" that impairs children's neurological function and affects their vision and vision. Because the clinical symptoms are not obvious, it is easy to ignore. It is very important to teach children not to bite pencils.

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Nature gives us a lot of precious resources and materials. We should also know how to use them safely when we get them, so that we can live up to nature's gifts.

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