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I remember a public service radio ad in the early 1970s about the dangers of lead paint:

Paint chips peelin’
From the ceilin’
By my baby’s bed

Eatin’ paint and plaster
I took him to the doctor
Convulsions
Lead poison
The ghetto malaria-a-a

Why, Lord, Why?
Landlord’s lazy
And I’m half crazy
‘Cause my baby’s dead

A friend of mine has a son who ate lead paint by chewing on the window trim. I find that highly disturbing, not because he ate lead paint but that little effer was eating wood trim on the house. Really?! He’s had no effects yet that I know of other than being an a$$hole and being very thin, even more than me (I’m a 30 waist, have been since high for school).

The little effer would throw rocks in my pool and go running off on the trails through my woods when his parents came to parties here. The kid was a nightmare. He recently graduated from college. Now I can kick his ass and not get arrested.

-SB

I remember a public service radio ad in the early 1970s about the dangers of lead paint: ... 'Cause my baby's dead.

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Very true and it happened more often in that era. Another Public Service Announcement from the past, late 60's I believe, was to not use warm water out of the faucet for mixing baby formula.

The major issue with the lead is how many organs it affects and the biggest most dangerous body system it affects adversely is the central nervous system. For small children, it doesn't take very much lead to be ingested and absorbed for the permanent effects to begin, and they get worse the higher the amount of lead that gets absorbed is.

As I've already stated some of that lead can remain stored in the bones for upwards of thirty years. There is a test to determine how much lead is floating along in a persons blood. The test is most accurate when administered within the first 6 to 8 weeks after exposure. It called an EBL test that simply stands for an elevated blood lead level test. If that level is really high a treatment called chelation is administered, it can and has saved lives.

Regretfully, unless people have been educated about all the hazards of lead poisoning, and they are numerous, or have become involved through exposure to themselves or family and friends it mostly goes ignored. The information is out there but it takes time to research it.