Invisible lead in the dust in your home, in your drinking water and in the soil around your home can poison your child with no noticable symptoms. Lead poisoning affects the child's developing brain. Lead poisoning at even low levels cuts the child's IQ and causes learning and behavior problems. Infants and toddlers are especially at risk. There is no cure for low-level lead poisoning.
Prevention is the parent's only antidote.
Acute lead poisoning, which does have symptoms, can be fatal and must be treated. This site contains a number of webpages designed to help parents get basic information about the prevention of childhood lead poisoning, and is key-word searchable. It also provides a parent's forum for questions, answers and discussion. Sales of Lead Is A Silent Hazard help cover the cost of maintaining this leadweb page. Research, legislative and regulatory developments since the publication of Lead Is A Silent Hazard .