Do you remember what you ate off the ground when you were a child? I used to eat anything I saw around me as a child. I didn’t know what I was eating, but it tasted so sweet. Eating sand and tasting the mud on my fingers after playing were my favorite snacks. My mother would often yell at me to stop, but the moment she was not looking I would go hide myself to lick the paint on the wall. One day I even became seriously sick from eating such filthy item. Luckily, I was not affected from any lead poisoning. Now that I am older I know what is eatable and what is not eatable. Moreover, it is even shocking to me that lead poisoning is an environmental problem in Philadelphia. Large amount of lead in a child’s blood can cause high blood pressure;
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Even adults are most likely to have high blood pressure the moment they are affected by lead poisoning. It is a bad poisoning because even people who seem healthy can have high blood pressure. Most of the times, signs and symptoms usually don't appear until dangerous amounts have accumulated. People come to overlook such symptoms, and then as a result they are more affected. Lead poisoning is very harmful to our body. The greatest concern involving lead poisoning is that it is so harmful especially to children.
Another, significant factor about lead poisoning is memory loss. According to research children are the most likely ones to have memory loss as a result of lead poisoning. This evidence clearly shows how bad lead poisoning can be to the human body. In the city Philadelphia, many people are now subject with lead …show more content…
Lead is harmful because once it gets into a person system, it spreads throughout the body. For instance: “Lead can damage the red blood cells and limit their ability to carry oxygen to the organs and tissues that need it, thus anemia” (Quinn, 2014). Lead can travel from the mother blood into her developing baby in her womb. Evidence has showed that unborn babies who are exposed to lead are likely to be born premature and as a result they can have nervous damage (Quinn, 2014). People of any age can have severe damage of the brain due lead
Even adults are most likely to have high blood pressure the moment they are affected by lead poisoning. It is a bad poisoning because even people who seem healthy can have high blood pressure. Most of the times, signs and symptoms usually don't appear until dangerous amounts have accumulated. People come to overlook such symptoms, and then as a result they are more affected. Lead poisoning is very harmful to our body. The greatest concern involving lead poisoning is that it is so harmful especially to children.
Another, significant factor about lead poisoning is memory loss. According to research children are the most likely ones to have memory loss as a result of lead poisoning. This evidence clearly shows how bad lead poisoning can be to the human body. In the city Philadelphia, many people are now subject with lead …show more content…
Lead is harmful because once it gets into a person system, it spreads throughout the body. For instance: “Lead can damage the red blood cells and limit their ability to carry oxygen to the organs and tissues that need it, thus anemia” (Quinn, 2014). Lead can travel from the mother blood into her developing baby in her womb. Evidence has showed that unborn babies who are exposed to lead are likely to be born premature and as a result they can have nervous damage (Quinn, 2014). People of any age can have severe damage of the brain due lead