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Lead is a highly toxic metal that can severely impact
children’s health. Lead poisoning can be responsible for everything
from mood swings and disrupted sleep to kidney damage and retardation.
Although known to cause behavioral changes, lead poisoning is nearly
impossible to diagnose without a blood test, so make sure your children
are tested regularly. Because lead used to be found in paint, paint
dust is often found in or around older homes. That dust can easily
get on children’s hands, which then make their way into kids mouths,
eyes and noses. Lead also used to be added to gasoline, so the soil
near most roads is also contaminated. Luckily, lead poisoning is 100%
preventable. Find out the steps you can take to protect your children
from exposure to lead.
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Celeste Sanabria and Rita Lourie may not be Zeppelin fans, but they
sure know how to get the lead out. Experts in Philadelphia’s Lead
Safe Babies Program, their mission is to teach new parents how to
remove the sources of infant lead exposure from their homes. Since
nine out of ten Philadelphia homes contain lead, the simple lessons
that the Lead Safe Babies Program teaches are extremely important
ones. Learn some of the basic steps needed to keep your child safe
in this heartening video segment.
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If Julia Roberts were a 12-year-old boy, she probably never would
have married Lyle Lovett. But you can bet she’d be playing Sanders
Murphy in West Philadelphia’s own version of Erin Brockovich. Sanders
is the smart and sassy sixth grader who single-handedly saved students
in his school from sickening water. Get some inspiring lessons in
how change really happens from one incredibly civic-minded youngster
who has led a campaign to get lead out of his school’s drinking fountains.
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