Home on the range: childhood lead exposure due to family occupation

Article Abstract:

Children may be exposed to lead in unusual ways. A routine screening revealed that a 13-month-old boy had excessive blood levels of lead. Exposure in the home was ruled out. It turned out that the family frequently visited relatives who owned a sport shop containing an unventilated indoor target range. A lunch counter, at which the boy ate, was next to the target range. The family children played in the target range when it was not in use. Other family members were tested and found to have excessive blood lead levels. Closing the range and cleaning the area resulted in a decline in blood lead levels in exposed family members. Lead exposure in pistol or rifle ranges is a known source of lead poisoning in adults.

Causes of, Lead in the body, Rifle-ranges, Rifle ranges

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Handheld Metal Detector Localization of Ingested Metallic Foreign Bodies

Article Abstract:

A hand held metal detector (HHMD) can be used for scanning as an accurate, inexpensive, radiation-free screening tool for evaluation of patients suspected of ingesting coins and other metallic foreign bodies. In a consecutive sample of 176 eligible patients who were known or suspected to have ingested a metallic foreign body and who were brought to the emergency departments of two hospitals, each patient underwent HHMD scanning and radiographic evaluation. The results were similar between radiography and the HHMD, and there was no statistical difference in the accuracy of identification between experienced and inexperienced diagnosticians in the use of HHMD.

Statistical Data Included, Metal detectors, Radiography

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Management of lead poisoning from ingested fishing sinkers

Article Abstract:

An eight-year-old boy was successfully treated for lead poisoning after swallowing 20 to 25 fishing sinkers. There are many cases of plumbism or lead poisoning which come from ingestion of curtain weights, bullets, lead shot and other items containing lead. In this case, with the use of a polyethylene glycol solution and aggressive bowel irrigation, all but seven sinkers were expelled. Colonoscopy retrieved four of these, pitted on their surfaces. The others could not be retrieved and the child was treated for lead in the blood.

Care and treatment, Lead poisoning

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