Provide family lead education. Provide follow-up testing. Refer for social services, if necessary. Lead hazards have been removed. There are no new exposures.
Provider assures medical management.
Call Local Public Health Agency to provide environmental investigation and to assure lead-hazard control. Hospitalize child and begin medical treatment immediately. The higher the testing level, the more urgent the need for a confirmatory test. Lead poisoning is not easy to detect. Sometimes no symptoms occur, and sometimes the symptoms are the same as those of more common illnesses.