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How many candles do you have in your home? Could they cause lead poisoning? http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/blpnet/article.html?article_id=30645
The Price of Progress How Chemical Exposure is Killing Us Tom McGuire, DDS Dental Wellness Institute http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/blpnet/article.html?article_id=38955
You also can ensure that a child's diet is protective:
Make sure kids get four to six small meals per day (it is easier to absorb lead on an empty stomach).
Give children plenty of iron-rich foods (normal levels of iron protect against the harmful effects of lead). Iron-rich foods include red meats, fish, and chicken, iron-fortified cereals, raisins, prunes, and other dried fruits.
Make sure kids get calcium-rich foods (calcium reduces lead absorption). Foods high in calcium include milk, yogurt, cheese, spinach, kale, collard greens, and other green leafy vegetables.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QA/QA353050/
More Search results on lead at Andrew Weil M.D. http://206.188.28.100/search?site=my_collection&client=my_collection&proxystylesheet=my_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&q=Lead&x=23&y=9
Andrew Weil M.D. also wrote The Healthy Kitchen with Rosie Daley. It is more than just recipes.
Lead poisoning is said to be the most common environmental illness of children in the US. The incidence varies with age, socioeconomic status, the population of a given community, race, and the age of the home. http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic293.htm
Chelation Therapy for Childhood Lead Poisoning: Does Excretion Equal Efficacy ? http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/DDIL/chelation.htm
Chelation: Chelation therapy is indicated as soon as the diagnosis of severe lead toxicity is considered, even if a definitive blood lead level is not yet available. Chelation functions by binding with lead and forming a water-soluble complex that is excreted in urine. The efficacy of treatment may be monitored by postchelation decreases in blood lead concentrations, the finding of increased urine lead excretion, and the normalization of circulating delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydrase levels. http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic1269.htm
Vitamin C
Over the years, we have all heard about the hazards of lead. These include lead paint ingestion by children, lead dust inhalation by miners and metalworkers, lead in solder used in plumbing, and leaded gasoline contaminating cattle. We know that lead poisoning can cause severe mental retardation. Lead has been clearly linked with Alzheimer's disease.
We have been told to avoid lead in the home and to stop lead pollution of our environment. But we have not been told how to remove it from our bodies at home. No drugs are needed; vitamin C mega doses will do the job efficiently. Saturation, or "bowel tolerance" doses of vitamin C will chelate lead right out of a person. That is good news for everybody.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/lead.htmlThe book Prescription for Nutritional Healing does list Vitamin C with as helping to neutralize the effects of lead pg 488. On pages 699 thru 701 this book extols the virtues of both oral and intravenous chelation therapy for conditions involving blood flow and heavy metals. The number of oral chelation agents listed is 13. The list does include Vitamin C with . I personally love this book. If I could only have one holistic health book on my self this would be the one.
Lead poisoning is said to be the most common environmental illness of children in the US. The incidence varies with age, socioeconomic status, the population of a given community, race, and the age of the home. http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic293.htm
I also have 3 health books that mention lead poisoning: The Sav-on Health Self-Care Advisor pg 253, I picked up this free book from either a Osco, Savon or Albertsons Drug Store. The World's Greatest Treasury of Health Secrets Lead and chronic fatigue pg 39 Lead Dangers pgs 313 & 319 Lead and Obesity pg 156 Does pool cue chalk contain lead? pg 319 Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A. Balch, CNC & James F. Balch M.D. pgs 487 - 490
Does your child's chalk contain lead? http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/chalk.asp I do not know if Crayola Sidewalk Chalk has ever been tested but, I do know it is made in China
Lead and Adults
"Both lead exposure and hypertension have been associated with cognitive impairments in older adults. Lead exposure early in life may have a long-term effect on cognitive ability and motor function, and have a carry-through effect in adult life," said lead investigator Domenic Sica, M.D., professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3033807
"Our study found the association of blood lead with cardiovascular death to be evident at levels as low as 2 ìg/dL," he said. "Since 38 percent of U.S. adults had lead levels above 2 ìg/dL in 1999–2002, the public health implications of these findings are substantial." http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3042161
Results of a study published in the March 26, 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association have linked lead from thinning bones to high blood pressure among post-menopausal women. The study involved 2,165 women aged 40 to 59 who were surveyed between 1988 and 1994. Those with the highest levels of lead in their blood were 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure than those with the lowest blood-levels of lead. http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QA/QA244323/
Sincerely,
Micaela
P.S. Sorry, I could not include more specific information I do not want to be sued for copyright infringement.
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