Foreign cold medicines: Azarcon 93.5%, (also Rueda, Coral, Alarcon, Liga, Maria Luisa); Pay-loo-ah 90% lead with arsenic; Yogran Guggulu
Foreign cosmetics: Kohl, Surina
Heroin
Home smelting of lead shot and bullets
Household dust
Imported plastic mini blinds
Lead-based paint chips, interior and exterior paint (before 1977)
Leaded crystal
Leaded foil wine bottle caps
Leaded gasoline fumes
Leaded residue from tainted soil or air in some fruits and vegetables
Leaded soldering fumes
Old newsprint
Old window glaze
Playground soil
Soil from smelter area
Soil, especially in dense urban areas
Water boiled in leaded pots and pans
Common Symptoms
View the common symptoms of lead poisoning in adults and children:
Adults
Abdominal pain
Anemia
Depression
Fatigue
Gout
Heart failure
High blood pressure
Kidney failure
Reproductive problems
Wrist or foot weakness
Children
Anemia
Constipation
Decreased appetite
Diarrhea
Learning problems
Lowered I.Q.
Sleeplessness
Stomach ache
Tiredness
Vomiting
Testing
Who should be tested for possible lead poisoning:
Children who are anemic
Children with learning or behavioral problems
Children who have been treated with foreign folk-medicines that contain high lead content
Children who have a sibling, housemate or playmate being followed or treated for an elevated lead level
Children who live in or regularly visit a house with peeling or chipping paint built before 1960. This also includes day care, preschool, or the babysitter's house.
Children living with an adult whose job or hobby involves exposure to lead. Lead dust can be brought home on the adult's clothes and contaminate a child's environment
Children living near environmental sources of lead, such as battery manufacturing plants, lead smelters, battery-recycling plants, or other lead industries
Contact Us
Carteret County Health Department
3820 Bridges Street, Suite A
Morehead City, NC 28557