Mission:  Know that Heavy Metals are in Your Home

There are heavy metals in your home.  You may think that they are not effecting you or your children, but you are wrong.  I was wrong.  My daughter who had lead and mercury toxicity suffered the price due to environmental heavy metals that leached into her small body and caused an almost deadly seizure.  You need to be aware of what you can do to avoid heavy metals in your home and supplements.

The U.S. department of housing and urban development estimates that 38 million homes still contain lead paint today.  Many parents are concerned about their children eating paint chips, however this is not how lead typically ends up in their bodies.  Leaded paint deteriorates and becomes airborne, settling into the dust we breathe.  Once in the lungs, lead seeps into the blood and then stores inside the tissue. Blood-lead levels are more closely related to indoor dust containing lead than any other source, including outdoor exposures. Activities that increase lead levels in dust can make this exposure even greater.  In a population-based study, children who lived in a home that had undergone some type of renovation, repair, or remodeling in the prior year were at 1.3 times greater risk of having an elevated blood-lead level than children not exposed to such activities.

Drinking water still represents 20 percent of the daily total exposure for lead experienced in the United States today.  If you’re living in a house built before 1986, there’s still a chance that you are drinking water coming from lead pipes.  The EPA reported in January 2004 that the majority of 23 thousand homes known to have lead service pipes had lead levels that exceeded their action level of 15 ppm.  If you go into any major department store today and buy painted dishes, you and your family could be at a serious risk for lead poisoning.  Many of the ceramic and fancy dishes today still use a paint that contains lead.  This lead ends up in your food, which, when eaten, stockpiles in your tissues.  A study showed that storing foods in lead- glazed containers will result in elevated blood-lead levels. This means that a person eating off such dishes is being acutely poisoned on a daily basis.

Did you know that a child’s mercury level is exactly proportionate to the number of silver fillings in the mother’s mouth?  Of course you’ve heard about vaccines and mercury issues, but why not start looking a little closer at the other main causes of mercury poisoning including silver (amalgam) fillings and consumption of fish.

What can you do?  Become aware of where lead and mercury come from.  If you feel your child may be at risk, please have your child screened by evaluating both tissue and blood samples.  Most important of all, share this information as much as possible.  Tell other parents that heavy metals are still around.  Many of our grandparents knew to avoid these metals, but we have become to trusting in our environment and need to start questioning what our children have exposure to in our homes.

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