The wave of urban revival, the the DC housing a red become, that a new generation of DC children under the carpet can go hot crucibles. The majority of the available housing prior to 1978, the general assumption is that it lead in the painted surface many DC houses exist. In fact, childhood lead poisoning screening shows recent data from the DC & education program a correlation between cases of childhood lead poisoning and pre-1978 living in the vicinity, however, it is typical, that low-income tenants have never heard the EPA brochure titled "protect your family from lead in your home" and homeowners will receive only the leaflet potential DC as a formality, Day of the settlement. The problem with ignorance about lead poisoning, especially lead dust, is that lead poisoning is irreversible but preventable.
Lead dust must be swallowed or inhaled to the bloodstream, a route for the guided tour of the nervous system and the circulatory system travel, before you are in soft tissue organs (brain, kidneys, liver, etc.) and bones. Dust can result exposed to outside lead-based paint was from peeling or chipping paint interiors of home, in need of repair, bare soil, friction which scrolls years of leaded gas, smoke or a House. In a third child lead replaces the body supply of calcium and iron two nutrients important to development, which later as impaired judgment, attention deficit disorder, ability to reduced can learn and manifest aggression[1]. A pregnant woman, who were previously exposed to toxic levels will lead in their bones stored have and these toxins in their blood will be released and be transferred to their unborn child if[2]the calcium (or iron) in their blood is too low. This poisoning of the unborn child can be prevented in different ways.
The first and most obvious, is to prevent that the pregnant woman or the woman would like to have children in the future by inhalation or result in swallowing, which dates back to the DC love affair with urban renewal. While many business owners are like older DC housing to renovate taste for the new DC citizens, follow safe working procedures, some lead because the renovation and reconstruction not as "lead-based paints activities" belong in pre-1978 housing if and as long as a child under 6 of leadership to the property trigger a lead inspection, if the child blood lead at or above 15 µg/dL[3]is poisoned. Without following lead safe work practices have usual renovation activities, such as window replacement, electrical wiring, plumbing, and painting interfere with layers of previously pristine lead-based paints and creating lead dust. Without following lead safe working methods this leadership, the dust is a threat to the health of the owner (s) to a otherwise beautiful piece of the American dream, a risk to health, which is usually undetected without a blood lead screening for either the mother or her child or a lead inspection of the property. Therefore it is essential that contractor lead not only safe working procedures usually for DC jobs, however, that pregnant or future mothers remain protected the work areas.
The second and less obvious way is to educate homeowners and tenants, if not also entrepreneur of safe working procedures. The contractor activities that exercise to create dust, can the House and apartment owners or tenants, the to notify the contractor and the property manager about the potential health hazards inherent to the activity.
The third, and at least apparently, real estate agents about the meaning can be led inspections for DC housing 1978 built to educate. Such real estate agents could result in instruments of positive change by promoting their customers control, so that their customers can make informed purchases and develop plans safely in homes live where lead hazards are already identified.
Arming DC housing consumers with information on the sources and the impact on the health of lead poisoning from toxic exposure, not may be urban renewal lead hazards automatically allocated. To lead poisoning in the District of Columbia get the above mentioned data about childhood, please visit environmental the DC Department of health health administration 202-535-2500.
[1] [http://www.rtnda.org/resources/childrenshealth.pdf]; p. 39-40
[2] http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/Press/Releases/press07012002.html
[3] http://app.doh.dc.gov/services/administration_offices/environmental/services2/lppd/pdf/gen_inform_lhc_2005.pdf; p. 4
Mrs Amero works for Howard University Center for urban progress-lead programs of the community connection. Through their work she took safe working procedures, the meetings and reach meeting of numerous lead with the DC community and supports studies of lead poisoning awareness-raising activities for DC residents in the documentation of the participants and licensed, DC real estate agents.
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