Know the Facts: Protect Your Child from Lead Exposure
The Know the Facts: Protect Your Child from Lead Exposure website provides information about lead exposure in young children, associated health risks, the importance of blood lead testing, and steps to reduce exposure. It explains that young children, including babies during pregnancy and breastfeeding, are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning and emphasizes that most children who are exposed to lead do not show symptoms. The resource describes how childhood lead exposure can cause lifelong health problems and who should get tested for lead exposure. It details simple protective actions to help families reduce the risk of lead exposure from common sources like lead-based paint, contaminated soil, and drinking water from old pipes. The websites provides downloadable PDFs of this information in English and Spanish.