Lead Resource Guide For Parents
Parents, could lead be poisoning your child?
Yes. Children who have lead poisoning don’t look or act sick. But lead can cause serious health problems.
Children can get lead poisoning in their own home, apartment or day care. It’s found in older buildings (in paint, dust, drinking water and in the dirt outside) and can also come from work or hobbies, like autobody work, painting or scraping paint, making stained glass or casting lead toys, sinkers or shots.
Talk to your child’s doctor about testing your child for lead poisoning. The test is free for children on Medicaid or Dr. Dynasaur.
Publications and Web Links on Lead
- Finding Lead in Your Home - A booklet about sources of lead.
- Childhood Nutrition and Lead Poisoning - Healthy eating habits can help prevent the serious effects of lead poisoning.
- Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home - An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guide to locating and ridding your home of lead hazards.
- Sources of Lead - Facts about lead exposure from paint, soil, air, water, food and food containers, and from work activities.
- Lead Paint and Renovation Safety - Advice on renovating old houses and removing lead paint.
- Blood Lead Screening Guidelines - When to screen children for lead; when to confirm capillary blood lead tests; other indications to screen for lead.