Forensic toxicology

The generation known as the Millennials, are most often perceived as a highly disadvantaged and targeted group. There are many factors that contribute to the perception of this particular group some of which, are very saddening and truly unfair for the Millennials, and I am sad to say that I am part of that generation. The way that I, along with many other people see it, is that most of the problems the Millennials are dealing with today, have been the results of failure from the previous…

1- identify and briefly describe the public health topic you chose. Public health in regards to exposure to heavy metals is always of concern. Exposure to lead has been a major environmental hazard for a very long time. Reference to Lin, S. (2011), reveals that, I t poses a threat to the health of individuals when an intolerable amount of lead is either inhaled or ingested. Routes of exposure to lead include contaminated air, water, soil, food, and consumer products. Occupational exposure is…

As the health and safety manager, I’ve identified that workers were exposed to cadmium and lead. Cadmium is a soft malleable transition metal. It is silvery bluish-white in color. Although toxic by nature, this chemical element is commonly used to create dry cell batteries. Like mercury, cadmium has the lowest melting point of groups three through eleven transition metals. Lead is a malleable soft heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. It bluish-white in color when freshly cut,…

4. Metal poisoning came to the foreground of the American consciousness when a spotlight was shown on the high lead levels in Flint’s water system in Michigan. Although many steps have been performed to reduce lead poisoning, namely in children, such as removing lead paint from homes in 1978, removing lead from gasoline, and proposing stricter laws on imported toys containing lead, heavy metal poisoning still exists. Chelation therapy is still the preferred medical treatment for such heavy metal…

In the chapter “From personal tragedy to public health crisis” of the book “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children” by Markowitz and Rosner, the lead poisoning and the actions taken is discussed. In the early 1900’s, health departments throughout the U.S. were not communicating and helping each other to fight the public threat of lead. Therefore it was easy for the Lead Industries Association (LIA) to downplay the impact of lead and for manufactures to avoid…

Poison Control, Seizures and Tourniquets After taking this course in first aid, has proven to be very useful to people from all walks of life, like the busy parent and working professionals, that I am. There was many thing that I learned from taking this class, but the three things that I found interesting and or could be useful to have up to date knowledge about are, poison control, seizure and tourniquets. If you took a first aid class prior to 2010, like I did then, there’s a reasonable…

Hello Dr. Julian, Thank you for reading my discussion post case study # 2, and perspective question. Lead poisonousness is a global problem, while arrays of research information indicated a deterioration in the predominance of upsurge blood lead echelons in children from the developed world, lead lingers as a widespread avoidable ecological health hazard. The CBC analysis has an enormous effect on lead poisoning, the CBC laboratory appraisal answers arrays of question-related to quantity of…

Lead is an element that naturally occurs in the environment, but much of the lead found in the environment today exists as a result of human activity. When young children are exposed to lead, it can enter the bloodstream and cause a myriad of negative health effects that can affect them for the rest of their lives, as the consequences of lead poisoning are often irreversible (National Center for Healthy Housing, 2008). Based on a child’s level of exposure, they could experience hyperactivity,…

Lead (Pb) is one of an important contaminant surrounding our environment. Lead occur naturally in all soil and water (1), or can be found deep within the ground located in ore (2). Although lead can be found in small quantities, there is a great quantity of lead flow in the environment that is detrimental to human beings and plants. However, despite lead is a toxic metal, there are still lots of households products contains lead; burning of paper products, discarded rubber, battery casings, and…

6. Are there certain concentrations that cause harm? What are they? Concentrations for adult rats. LD50 of BPA was 35.26 mg/kg according to NCBI. “Injection of lethal dose of BPA (40 mg/kg body weight) produced acute toxicity manifesting as immediate respiratory arrest and hypotension after the injection of BPA followed by bradycardia. The animals died within 7.3 +/- 0.7 min.”, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22734254. Honestly was too much work to find any good result from exposure to…