Is it lead poisoning that causes a decline in children's intelligence? Is it lead poisoning that causes a decline in children's intelligence?

Sometimes children suffer from anorexia, poor concentration, and slow development. We ignore these problems, but we need to take them seriously as they may be lead poisoning. Let's take a look at what causes lead poisoning, the symptoms of lead poisoning, and how to start treatment as early as possible.

Symptoms of lead poisoning

1. Developmental delay: Lead interferes with vitamin D metabolism, affects calcium absorption, affects physical growth and causes short stature.

2. Poor appetite. He can only eat a little food reluctantly and does not eat any snacks. He just refuses to eat.

3. Lack of concentration, cannot sit still in class, often makes mistakes in homework, and is often absent-minded.

4. Slow reaction, decreased intelligence, memory loss, academic performance is getting worse day by day, especially Chinese performance, new poems and new words are difficult to remember.

5. Irritable, impulsive, disobedient, quick-tempered, easily impulsive, and gets extremely anxious when something is not done well.

6. Digestive system symptoms: anorexia, diarrhea, frequent constipation, and stomach pain for no reason.

7. There is a metallic taste in the mouth, salivation, nausea, vomiting, and the vomitus is often in the form of white milky lumps (lead forms white lead chloride in the stomach). In the most serious cases, coma and death may occur.

What to do if you have lead poisoning?

1. Eat more foods rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C combines with lead to form a water-insoluble substance that is excreted from the body with feces. Take at least 150 mg of vitamin C per day. Those who have symptoms of lead poisoning need to increase it to 200 mg. Vitamin C is widely found in fruits, vegetables and leaves of some plants. Sour fruits such as oranges, lemons, pomegranates, and hawthorns are the richest, especially sour dates. Apples, strawberries, fresh peppers, cabbage, garlic sprouts, snow mustard, tomatoes, cauliflower, etc. also contain vitamin C.

The following are some of the common nursing measures:

1. When dealing with children with lead poisoning, our parents can pay more attention to their diet in daily life. Foods such as seaweed, black dates, kelp, sea cucumber, kiwi fruit, etc. are helpful in the treatment of the disease. In daily life, our parents can appropriately let their children eat more of them.

2. Parents should cultivate good hygiene habits in their children, educate them on health knowledge, encourage them to wash their hands frequently, and teach younger children not to put foreign objects in their mouths.

3. Some children who suffer from lead poisoning may be relatively young. When dealing with such children, our parents should also pay more attention to keeping the children’s toys clean to avoid adverse effects when the children “eat” the toys.

4. It is best not to take children to places where environmental pollution is serious. They should also not eat foods such as preserved eggs that may cause children to become sick. This will help children get rid of the troubles of the disease as soon as possible.