Lead levels in blood

Like I said before "googling your symptoms is a sure way to convince yourself that you are dying"

I think it all comes down to proper hygiene. I go to a indoor range at least once a week and after each session I go to the restroom & wash my hands before leaving. In addition, when I'm home cleaning my pistols, I keep no food or drinks nearby and I wash my hands a couple times during the process....and wash my hands again before touching any food or drink....
 
shouldazagged mentioned the Romans demise, and their wine was made and served in lead vessels.

Lead has been used in some pottery glazing. If food is cooked in it, or especially if salsa or citric acid drinks are served regularly or stored, the lead enters the food and will poison you. Happens in Mexico fairly often, according to my doc down there.

Cases reported in the southwestern U.S. due to the same thing, keeping fresh squeezed orange juice in a pretty, glazed pottery decanter and using it for long periods.

Pottery and plates from China have been shown to have high levels of lead in their glazing, too.

Those habanero peppers will eat into and dissolve anything....
 
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There were several studies in the 60s and 70s linking high levels of lead to a climbing violent crime rate.Part of the reason we no longer use leaded gas.
 
da gimp said:
I'm mystified by the folks who claim their blood lead levels "were on the low normal" or "on the high side of normal" etc.. When a competent lab does your BLL, it will give you the number that your blood lead level is......
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I will solve this mystery for you.

People forget the actual number, but remember what it means.
For example 4 is Low Low is good. Low is remembered because it's good.

I don't remember my Cholesterol levels, I just remember if he said high or low.
 
da gimp said:
I'm mystified by the folks who claim their blood lead levels "were on the low normal" or "on the high side of normal" etc.. When a competent lab does your BLL, it will give you the number that your blood lead level is...... when I was first tested as a baseline when I was first certified mine was 4, I was casting a huge amount of primarily lead handgun bullets for all of our family & friends, and not washing every time as I should have been.
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It really wasn't that big of a deal. When I got a routine blood test I asked that they check for lead too. Have you ever looked at those blood test results? I think they're called CBC or whatever... there's pages of numbers on all sorts of stuff. I don't care about the numbers because they are totally meaningless to me unless the doc says something. Do you memorize all that stuff? Not me... I'm in my mid 50s and my hard drive is about full. :D
 
I believe it's in your genes whether or not any particular substance "gets you". I'm either very lucky of most of the EPA nanny warnings are BS. I grew up with lead in EVERYTHING, our toys were painted with lead, we made lead soldiers with a home casting kit. Everything was painted with lead paint. All our pipes were wrapped in asbestos, our house had asbestos shingles on it that we would break off chunks and use as chalk in the street. We smoked, as soldered crystal radios and never took any precautions. Everybody smoked and we sprayed DDT all over the place. I washed every car part I ever touched in leaded gas.
We all did and most of us that I know are still here and those who aren't are not here because of any lead related health issues.
 
Lead had been removed from paint in the US since 1978, hard to imagine there is much left out there. Strange how other countries don't have people dropping like flies.
 
Symptoms.....

Mercury = nervousness, irritability, insomnia, twitching/tremors, weakness and decreased cognitive function.

I have all of those symptoms.:D

Lead = high blood pressure, abdominal pain, constipation, joint muscle pain, cognitive/memory loss, pain/numbness/tingling in extremities.

If you show these sign you are already in bad shape.:(
 
rwsmith said:
Mercury = nervousness, irritability, insomnia, twitching/tremors, weakness and decreased cognitive function.

I have all of those symptoms.:D

Lead = high blood pressure, abdominal pain, constipation, joint muscle pain, cognitive/memory loss, pain/numbness/tingling in extremities.

If you show these sign you are already in bad shape.:(
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Nothing but old age. Keep somebody in a bubble until they are old and they will still have all those problems. Larry
 
rwsmith said:
Mercury = nervousness, irritability, insomnia, twitching/tremors, weakness and decreased cognitive function.

I have all of those symptoms.:D

Lead = high blood pressure, abdominal pain, constipation, joint muscle pain, cognitive/memory loss, pain/numbness/tingling in extremities.

If you show these sign you are already in bad shape.:(
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I have all of them, but then I'm 81 and sorta expect those things.
 
rwsmith said:
Mercury = nervousness, irritability, insomnia, twitching/tremors, weakness and decreased cognitive function.

I have all of those symptoms.:D

Lead = high blood pressure, abdominal pain, constipation, joint muscle pain, cognitive/memory loss, pain/numbness/tingling in extremities.

If you show these sign you are already in bad shape.:(
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner......... add Erectile Dysfunction as a symptom too........... if you have "lead in your pecker" (moderate to high blood lead levels) , you can have a bad case of ED too. Glad the doc/clinic gave the other fellow a numerical reading, if they hadn't I'd suspect poor testing.........
 
I have 40 grains of lead just under my right knee, deposited there in 1970. Would have required severing of the patella tendon to remove it, so they left it. Got tested a few years ago, normal. Apparently it doesn't leach, just calcifies and seals.
 
It is a chemical imbalance.

It happens when the iron in your blood turns to lead in your butt
 
cougar14 said:
I have 40 grains of lead just under my right knee, deposited there in 1970. Would have required severing of the patella tendon to remove it, so they left it. Got tested a few years ago, normal. Apparently it doesn't leach, just calcifies and seals.
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My father lived with several shotgun pellets in his back from his early teens until 80 with no ill effects.
 
Years ago before drugs really got going as "recreation" it was legal to obtain 1 ounce of Paregoric per 48 hours on your signature.Paregoric contains opium.The system was often abused,mostly by those claiming to be house painters claiming abdominal pain secondary to lead paint,and Paregoric would relieve cramps.The ones I remember looked like old dried up addicts .I never saw them painting ,but they were busy working multiple drug stores.An enterprising pharmacist I knew got in serious trouble by having more concern with money than the law.He bough Paregoric and Terpin Hydrate &Codiene Cough Syrup ( G I Gin) which could be bought similarly.These folks probably saved a lot of money on toilet paper!
 
Reminds me of the time...

tops said:
Nothing but old age. Keep somebody in a bubble until they are old and they will still have all those problems. Larry
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Dr. Dean Edell on the radio was talking to a guy that thought he had trichinosis. The doctor said, Nah, there's all kind of things it could be before trichinosis, which isn't seen much anymore and kept evaluating symptoms and kept swearing that it was VERY unlikely that he had trichinosis. At the end of the conversation the Dr. said, "You need to get to a doctor, you've got trichinosis!":D
 
rwsmith said:
Dr. Dean Edell on the radio was talking to a guy that thought he had trichinosis. The doctor said, Nah, there's all kind of things it could be before trichinosis, which isn't seen much anymore and kept evaluating symptoms and kept swearing that it was VERY unlikely that he had trichinosis. At the end of the conversation the Dr. said, "You need to get to a doctor, you've got trichinosis!":D
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My degree is in biology. I never pursued a medical career, because everything I studied, I was sure I had.
 
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