Indiana: Lead Paint, Lead Poisoning (Part 1)

If you live in an older home. lead paint can affect your children. Three families share their stories about lead poisoning in their family. Part 1 of 2.

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[QuantumJiggle]

I was born into a house being remodeled DIY style back in the seventies. One section was over two hundred years old, the other continuously worked on, the entire 14 years I lived there, was built in the forties. As a preteen, I was helping sand and peel paint over summer breaks. I can only imagine what levels of contamination I was crawling through as an infant. I've been through hell, socially, mentally, financially, and emotionally. No one considered this factor, and put it all upon me. Joy.

[ikecoalition]

@QuantumJiggle Sorry to hear about your troubles. The U.S. was just paying attention to lead back in the 70s, even though Europe had banned lead paint in housing in the early 1900s. As the video shows, the most dangerous period is early childhood, but lead can affect teens and adults, too. The effects are life-long, as you are finding out. Thanks for sharing your story.

[98770]

@woodlandfruits thats why in Taiwan they tell me not to drink the tap water.

[woodlandfruits]

@QuantumJiggle

have you had your levels tested now????

you still may have lead stored in your bones!

[woodlandfruits]

@98770

wow!

thats scary!

our water (now living in north wales,uk) is crystal clear, and comes from the mountains in snowdonia! we no longer use an ro filter, but i don't think we'd need to here!

[woodlandfruits]

@MsHobbyfarmer

that is rubbish!!!

we were contaminated by LEAD DUST, caused by dry scraping /sanding of lead paint on pressed metal ceilings

the dust settled on the walls and every surface, so we breathed it in, and ingested it by hand to mouth contact.

thank goodness for the inspectors, who found the levels of over 6000x the safe limit,who put an order on the house, so more people do not become contaminated,because a greedy landlord fails to decontaminate it!

[woodlandfruits]

@geekforlifevandc

btw, pets are just as important as humans- he had no blame in being exposed to the toxins, and was just an innocent in it all and deserved to be cared for and treated just as much as any human member of the family! the treatment cost us $1500!

[woodlandfruits]

@geekforlifevandc

as a result, we had to put off trying to have a 3rd child ,as it was dangerous to get pregnant with those levels.as i am now late 30's, we may have missed the boat on having another baby, thanks to the lead contamination! there was no way i was going to take the risk of still birth, birth defects, miscarriage etc, that lead can cause.

[woodlandfruits]

@geekforlifevandc

we weren't actually! after only 3 weeks in the house, our lead levels were elevated, my childrens both being the highest in the family.

the levels in my husbands blood, tested 6 months later, had only halved, and he was used as a control level for the rest of the family, as it was too traumatic to test the children again- the doctors wouldn't do it.

[98770]

@woodlandfruits if you use a ro filter in taiwan the filter would be very black due to industrial pollution.

[ikecoalition]

@SuperArlene45 We're working on an update to the video and hope to include closed captioning so everyone can access it.