Lead Level in Toddler Question

- Water supply

- Air (near a firing range? Downwind from factories?)

- Art supplies (especially older oil paints)

- Ceramic (a lot of low fire glazes are lead based. They aren't food safe, even if sold "for" food. I do a bit of ceramic, it drives me nuts that no matter how many stickers you put on non-foodsafe items, people STILL use them for food. I actually inscribe in wet clay if they're not foodsafe, but most don't.).

- Clothes (many clothes, ESP newer ones from china are contaminated with a plethora of heavy metals, toxins, etc. most wash out, they're "just" from being in the air in china, which is a noxious stew)

- Vintage ________ (toys, cookware, furniture, etc.)

- Environmental spills (it can hours or YEARS for contamination to spread. Check the soil... Because govt records of EPA spills & violations are a pain. We were on a well with an arsenic spill that contaminated the groundwater... So we knew... But everyone growing veggies in their garden had contaminated food and DIDN'T know.

- Construction (demo or building) upwind or through an area you drive through.
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Check @ home first
Then extend your search pattern.

Look at the dinnerware. Five will get you twenty it's painted & made in China....

Our kids are so toxic these days with so many different toxins, it's not even funny.

To be absolutely sure that her daughter only has elevated levels of lead and nothing else, I'd urge her to do a 24-hr urine test. You can get the test from a Naturopath (you also might be able to buy/get it online). You do the 24-test, then send a small sample to a lab (UPS picks it up right at your door). Then then send a detailed analysis back to the naturopath, detailing what the levels of the toxins are in your body.

I had one done about 5 years ago now. Each test costs me $50. I found out I had heavy metal toxicity and spent about a year chelating to get all of the toxins out of my body. I was 40 years old at the time. I also had my daughter tested; she was 8 years old at the time. She was MORE toxic than me and had to chelate with a compound pharmacy drug three times.

The friend's daughter can be getting lead from the lead pipes in their house/drinking the water. If she wears cheap jewelry from China (China is notorious for having many of their products test high for heavy metal toxins). From eating conventional food/veges/fruit from the supermarket (many farmers spray their fields with fertilizers made from the waste water from the sanitation depts; it is a known fact that the sanitation plants are unable to get all of the toxins, pharma drugs, and veterinary drugs out of the waste water, which is then sprayed all over field plants that we later eat when we buy food/foodstuffs at the grocery store).

Many homes were built with copper pipe that used lead solder..... sometimes that starts leaching out.... I don't know what year they dropped using the lead solder, but that is something to consider. I don't know if a filter would filter out the lead.

Also, even though unleaded gas has been around for a long time, kids would pick up lead residue in playgrounds and yards that were near heavily trafficked areas.

http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/sources.htm

http://children.webmd.com/environmental-exposure-head2toe...

My DD's preschool is in a building that is older than our home and in a higher risk zipcode. Unless her daughter goes nowhere, there are other places and ways she could be affected. Does she attend daycare or preschool in an older building? Does she play on older playground equipment? Wear jewelry? Etc.

it's probably coming from all the stuff in the house manufactured in China-filtered tap water does nothing-the water continually passes through filters that don't get rinsed-the water being filtered is sitting in the elements that were extracted-the best water is reverse osmosis water, a company called Kinetico makes the best filtration system-they have a product that is installed right at the sink-it is completely bio-pure. She may be coming in contact with contaminated soil- a child does not need to put objects in the mouth in order to absorb lead-it transfers through the skin, as well.