Lead Poisoning - Everything You Need To Know - Dr. Nabil Ebraheim
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025
- Dr. Ebraheim’s educational animated video describes the condition of lead poisoning.
Lead poisoning can occur when lead builds up within the body, usually over a long period of time. This excessive amount of lead in the body can cause serious health problems. Young children are vulnerable to lead poisoning. It can affect their mental and physical development.
What is lead poisoning? It is a medical condition caused by increased levels of lead within the body that interferes with the normal processes of the body and it particularly toxic to children.
Why does this happen? Lead and calcium compete for the protein that is important for body functions, especially the nervous system. The lead can displace the calcium from that protein so the calcium will not be able to function properly.
How can we simplify the signs and symptoms of lead poisoning? Lines gingiva and long bones. Encephalopathy and erythrocyte basophilic stippling. Abdominal colic and anemia. Drop foot and drop wrist.
Lead inhibits the enzymes that are needed to make Heme. This means that lead interferes with the making of hemoglobin. There will be basophilic stippling of the cells because lead inhibits the ribosomal RNA degradation. The red blood cells will retain aggregates of ribosomal RNA that causes the stippling of the cells. There will be a “lead line” in the gingiva (gums) called the Burton’s line. The long bones will also have lead lines in the metaphysis that appear like white bands on x-ray because the lead is collected within these white bands. The width and density of these lead lines reflects chronic exposure.
At the RBC level, you will find anemia and also basophilic stippling of the red blood cells. The patient will also have encephalopathy associated with headache and memory loss. The patient may also have abdominal colic (pain, cramps and constipation).
Another condition that may occur due to lead poisoning is foot drop. The patient may experience permanent damage to the central nervous system and the peripheral nerves. This condition usually occurs from exposure to lead based pain typically used in much older homes. Particles from the lead based pain is ingested through the air or lead contamination may occur from contaminated drinking water. Exposure to lead for a long period of time may cause serious health problems!
Children are most vulnerable to lead poisoning. They typically will show signs of:
•Irritability
•Fatigue
•Lower IQ
•Lack of attentiveness.
The child may show signs of encephalopathy, nausea, vomiting, gait disturbances and seizures.
Lead poisoning in adults: exposure is typically occupational related.
•Personality changes
•Headaches
•Neuropathy
•Weakness
•Foot and wrist drop
•Stomach aches
Both children and adults will experience pale skin due to anemia because lead interferes with the normal formation of hemoglobin.
How do you diagnose lead poisoning? History of exposure, cm lead level usually greater than 5 (some people use higher numbers). If a complete blood count (CBC) test is done, you will find microcytic anemia. In peripheral blood smear you will find basophilic stippling (ribosomes). The serum iron is normal.
1.Eliminate the source of the lead contamination.
2.Chelating agent
a. Use of various drugs that help to remove the lead from the body
b. It binds the lead into a form that the body can excrete
c. It is used if lead levels are higher than 45 µg/dL in children and more than 70µg/dL in adults.
d. Dimercaprol (oral chelating agent) is used in encephalopathy
e. Succimer (oral chelating agent) without encephalopathy.
Lead toxicity from bullets
•Lead contamination may occur due to bullet penetration of a joint or introduced into the cerebral spinal fluid
•It may cause severe synovitis and low grade lead poisoning
•This condition is rare, however it can occur
Lead toxicity from soil
•Lead contaminating the ground water may also contaminate the soil.
•Lead poisoning may then occur due to ingestion of the food grown in this soil
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In the 1960's when I was in elementary school, I was exposed to lead paint which got all over my legs and took a full year to get off skin. Made nothing but D's for 12 years. Didn't go to college.😢
Over the last decade, CEH has notified retailers Burlington, Marshalls, Nordstrom Rack, Ross, and TJ Maxx nearly 500 times that they were selling specific fashion accessories containing elevated levels of lead. Ross and Burlington accounted for over 300 of those notices.
Thank you for the brief presentation.
Dr. Ebraheim, when I was a child, I and other children would us an iron railing as a swing. Not knowing of the flaking of the iron pipes we children would play on it. I was not of school age at that time and I believe that I still have the poisoning in my blood cells. Through my adulthood, blood tests were taken that shown the while blood cells were eating of the red blood cells. I don't know and did not know how or why. With this information I can now understand why I have anemia, constipation problems, and lethargy throughout my life. My age now is 76 and I would love to know what can be done for my health issues surrounding this lead poisoning and anemia. Thank you for this information.
Emeramide can completely remove the lead.
I been searching for hours why there are RNA aggregates in lead poisoning, it’s because lead inhibits ribosomal RNA degradation
Sucks to be a kid who drinks lead,
I don't like it.
BUT memorable
HOWEVER
SUCKS MORE to be a kid who drinks lead kinda seems a bit like RIGHT there.
That said, I got here looking for lead poisoning from soldering. I don't know if that's possible.. I'm sure many people wonder if that's a thing..
Anyway thanks for the video, the gum lining is really helpful. For someone looking to for quick ways proactive with looking for lead poisoning signs. Thanks.
Check your dishes. Most dishes that were made before 2005 have lead.
Thank you. Very very informative!
Nice lecture sir
Thank u for the information sir but I don't think that I can stop myself from eating it.
Just that everyone knows, only salts like used in paint are poisonous, the metal is waaaaayyyy less toxic.
How about the lead in gasoline back in the day??
Inhaling Lead fumes can affect your liver ? Because I don't drink much Alcohol but I have a liver like if I do heavy drinking. I been working with lead solder for 16 years. I'm 32 and I think I'm feeling the effects of it after covid
Non alcoholic liver disease is common nowadays. Look into a choline supplement, like alpha GPC, choline bitartrate, or sunflower lecithin. It will help export fat out of the liver.
Also, diet changes will be most effective.
@@SkedgySky yeah its a fatty liver. Switch to an all plant based diet and he'll reverse it in no time
yes, good advice above, but also: eat raw liver, take a milk thistle extract, and tudca supplement. If you want to seriously detoxify the lead, that's another issue.
@@beaustur no. Leave the animals alone. Eat fresh herbs that extract heavy metals like cilantro
Diatomaceous earth.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
Is this something I should share with my doctor?I was told my reading was.8 when I was about 8. Lived in a building in the bronx that wad built in three 1930's and still had same water works and pipes. It stays in your body forever right? I also attended a school with asbestos for 8 years of walking past it on stairs and in lunch room every day. They relocated.what does mean for my health?
I think the asbestos part is different, it stays on the lungs because of the needle shape.
Did you get your blood tested? These questions are for your doctor, not a lecturer in the internet.
@@deadinside8781 nope
I have learned so much through the comment section here on RUclips.
Turns out lead messes with iron metabolism, so you need to chelate lead first before you can chelate iron without running into problems. Especially since it seems lead exposure is unavoidable in the US. I did this by accident by using edta for years, which chelates lead preferentially. So edta needs to be a daily base stack, together with a trace element supplement.
EDIT: interesting. I just took a couple of edta doses today, first time of a USP grade chemical supplier, and some freeda calcium phosphate, and on this very evening, my voice is completely normal again, when it was raspy for the better part of a year and not that great before that. Quite amazing how quickly hypothyroid from lead exposure can resolve and how much better this edta works than the no brand arizona one, where consumers are not given a single good choice in a world that is full of lead toxicity. That has to be the quickest recovery I have ever experienced.
Edit: so what I found is that edetate disodium (Na-edta), the version I tried above, is MUCH more effective than calcium EDTA (CaNa-EDTA). As a matter of fact, oral calcium edta is insufficient to chelate enough lead from typical exposure. Guess what happened: in 2008, the FDA pulled the more effective edta from the market because of 'side effects' (after being in the market for a whopping 50 years). I mean all you have to do is take some calcium if you're worried about calcium loss.
I mean literally, one freaking day of disodium edta about same doses as I took previously every day of calcium edta, and my voice is completely fixed.
When before I could hardly speak on some days for a long while now. I don't know where the exposure is coming from, probably a mixture of house dust, air pollution, and food. I have a filter for water so doubt that's a problem.
Edit: sweat from exercise actually excretes lead. Fascinating. Much more than sauna, and much more than through urine. So they were right, sweating is detoxifying, particularly for lead, which has the biggest boost for exercise sweat at 50ug/l, which is huge, much higher than blood levels let alone plasma levels.
Excretion of Ni, Pb, Cu, As, and Hg in Sweat under Two Sweating Conditions, 2022
Thank You for Your Great Lectures.
Before I used to eat pencil lead but now I will definitely stop it.
Because I have so much big dreams in my life.
Pencil lead is not actually elemental lead it is made from graphite which is a form of carbon , so chewing on pencil lead will not cause lead poisoning , but the paint that is used for coating the pencil may contain lead so wouldn't recommend chewing on it
Naanum apdithan ippa vazhanumnu neniakkiren
I've had bad stomach aches, but could lead cause irritable bowl syndrome?
You best ask your doctor. They'll likely say it's unlikely you have lead poisoning but if you ask for a referral or ask them to do the test, they might oblige
Thank you very good information!
thank you doctor!
very good introduction
Thank you!
i was in the navy and chipped paint for many months using paint chipping guns,breathing this dust all day... could this have an affect in later life
Yes.
Im sorry
You have to get tested.
You have to get tested.
I like the mnemonics.
What about dental fillings amalgam? If you have a tooth that is cracked and have amalgam.
In the first time i dont no what is lead in may toys in age7 but now there is the vid thanks
I scared because I tried to get up and the lead stuck right in my leg
Calcium and lead are not molecules.
Which things eat to remove pencil led consumption
the led in pencil is made of graphite not lead. Don't worry. 😂
Will people get those from soldering?
How to find the person is slow poisoned
My 8 year old autistic son has had lead poisoning for the last 6-7 years but the recent results are very high needing chelation.
However, I am.not convinced that DMSA without supplementation at 800 mg daily input will benefit... I think it will harm.him.more
Has snyone had experience with lead chelation
Thanks for your answers
how can you check if you have it
how abt lead interference with calcium and its treatment?
I have LEAD IN MY THROAT HELP
Wait how-
@@w3nd1g04 prob swallowed the fake beyblades metal parg
Hi dr.drank yogurt mixed with salt that was kept for 2 hrs from a brass cup.i didn't vomit but concerned if there could be food poisoning.could you please advise what to do and what do you think.i should have drank 50 ml
Since lead is not soluble in stomach acid or any body fluid how can it hurt you?
Dust particles and such can still infect cells
.......why did I eat that I'm 11 and I've Been eating lead alot but nothing has been happening but I have been have a lot of hallucinations
WTF
Schitzo
“Force yourself to generate dozens of ideas.”
Full disclaimer I am not a doctor but I do have lead poisoning and I've done some studying on this. This video is accurate information. But i can not understand some of it. So i can not be sure.
Thank you so much to the craters of this video.
Do you happen to know if the body can get rid of some of it on its own? I see that here there from comments of others, no source found yet, so I'm curious. Also, how well can adult skin absorb it?
@@deadinside8781 in some cases yes. When I was little we lived in a house that had lead paint in the windows. We could not afford to move or have it safely removed. so we painted over the windows and sealed it up. Later we moved to a different state and my levels drop to 0.00001 percent. Without any chemicals or medication. Not that they were high just consistent.
The lead accumulated in the body, is the body able to naturally expell it?
I was scraped by a pencil and it is black stuff in it will i be okay
Pencil is made of graphite not lead
been exposed by led and mercury been sick for awhile I found low mercury but high led in my body I hAve sore bones pins a needles allot no drop in hands or feet, but I don't know where I got it from, can only be from the water pipes been around old homes all my life
There are some medicines which have lead as their content
I have a tiny bit of lead in my skin from getting stabbed by my pencil(long story) will I be okay
unless you live in the old times, pencils use graphite, not lead.
Yes youll be fine. You can't get lead poisoning from lead pencils since they don't actually contain any lead. It's actually just graphite
pencils use graphite not lead
I have a mark on my hand from a mechanical pencil I poked my skin with it I was drawing not paying attention will i be ok
So this what happened to Tuefort citizen
Thanks
Eating pencil affect pregnancy problem to womens ?
Pencil does not contain lead. It has graphite, which is erroneously sometimes called lead.
I got a ukelele that contains lead. I'm not sure if I should return it or not
You definitely should, no amount of lead is safe.
I got shot in the military. Worse case of lead poisoning ever😎
is their any salutation
once u have been exposed, will you forever have it in your body throughout life????
Dana B yes..because it’s in your blood stream.
How can I get it out ?
No your body will remove it slowly through your nails ie mees lines if your body can't you'll need a chelating agent at which point very rarely does lead linger.
Yes, because lead stores in bones and teeth. As you age and your bones become brittle, you could potentially be poisoned again from the release into the bloodstream. Same thing if you break a bone, it can release lead into your system again. Extremely neurotoxic.
@@Moody_Incorporated what source do you have that lead doesn't linger?
is lead core from soldering lead is bad if used and have problem I have work shop and inside in my room is bad or not help asap pls
Not THAT bad, but you should start using Lead-free solder
I eat grafit and what I am do now
@@ROHANTRX yes pencil
If you're already eating some pencil before.. I think you must need to eat some paper's now and also eraser... Hehehe...
guys help its urgent
i have some fake beyblade (a toy) but its not from the original brand as i said before, its fake
i discovered it has lead
can i get poisoned by that, by just, playing with a toy?
@@hexsiongaming4462 Yes, you can
I looked what does lead poisoning mean because my almost 2 year old brother who do sent live with me still didn't talk or even eat himself so they took him to the doctor and he had lead poisoning they caught it right in time or he would be dead😥😞
Hi khole..how is your brother now..does he alright now
T'T'T'T'T TODAY JUNIOR!
So i accidently stabbed myself with a sharp pencil on my hand. I pull the pencil out and the top lead part is gone. I look at the sore and tried pulling the peace of lead out of the wound but failed because it somehow went deeper and now its gone. Should i worry?
Pencil lead is made of graphite not actual lead
@@guardianstudios8524 Thanks for telling me this a month later... All jokes aside i went to the ER an hour after i posted this comment and got the pencil lead or graphite removed😂
Amazing stroty
@FreeDirtnapS I watched this video in 9th grade, Funny enough im graduating next week. Time flies
some phrases are just fully copied from google.
i got a pencil point broken off in my wrist today and the nurses got the main piece out but they said the smaller pieces cant kill me are they sure about that?
There is no lead in a pencil, grahite is what they used in pencils .there never has been any lead used to make pencil, many yrs ago in the paint,
Please I would like you to help me out then give me injection poison I don't know what to do
Shoot Contaminated water. Lucky I haven't got the symptomps.
Get your blood tested anyway maybe.
When I was young I erased what I wrote by licking my finger to put some silava in it and scrubbing the you know what and I use the same finger everytime. Am I gonna be OK?
Please reply
Edit: nvm I did some research and found out I'm not poisoned
Please guide hpw to finish lead from body.? I dont want to die. Please help me. I have eaten alot
Please reply
@@yaadonkedareecheywithjazzy3554 graphite is used in pencils, not lead
@@yaadonkedareecheywithjazzy3554 Look up Christopher Shade
will we die
yes
I had led in my body 4 more than 5. Years from a 22cal. $Till no fuckin semtems so I'm really tripen now after this video
That through
I have lead i think im crying right now i have some fake toys whit led maybe
Permanent damage to the central nervous system and peripheral nerves 👀👀
Permanent, really? So I'm screwed then? Even though I feel totally normal at the moment?
Same i ate some lead when i was kid
Amaze how are you now
Sorry 🍭🕸
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I knew it! 2:10 dropped wrist... LEAD MAKES YOU GAY TOO!
No, mercury does that...in a teenage girl or boy it acts like estrogen, and gives the teenage girl beautiful curves, large breasst, and large thick lips...that makes her very beautiful...but for the boy, the excess of estrogen like substances make him more girl like, having smaller testicles, larger breast, and up to and including being attracted to males...no kidding, sorry.
I have seziurs
I thought lead was an element and not a molecule. This person doesn't know enough about the subject they are talking about.
Russell Common A molecule is formed when two or more atoms join together chemically. If atoms combine that are of two or more different elements, we call that a compound. All compounds are molecules, but not all molecules are compounds
What if lead was in your skin??
Does that count???
I SOOO SCARED 😭😭😭😔😔😔😔💔💔💔💔
I think it's not too dangerous because the metal can't be digested, only salts like used in paint. BTW I accedentally swallowed a piece of lead containing solder.
i should be dead...
i ate 5 pencils a month ago...
and I'm fine I love poison!
Why am I not dead? I want to DIE ;-;
That's graphite.
Sunny Saunders it's not lead knucklehead. It's graphite