Signs to identify children with lead poisoning

Recently, a boy named Nguyen Phan Bao N (7 months old, Thanh Hoa) was taken by his family to the emergency department of the antitrust hospital, National Hospital of Pediatrics in a state of coma and coma.

According to the patient's family members, before being hospitalized for about 2 weeks, Nguyen Phan Bao N had a fever. At that time, her grandmother listened to a healer near his house who had an antidote for mouth heat, mouth ulcers extremely effective, so she bought and applied it with her.

After one week of using orange medicine of this herbalist, Nguyen Phan Bao N's mother fell into a regurgitation, went outside, and a fever with the convulsions. The family rushed her to the Central Children Hospital for treatment.

According to the initial diagnosis of doctors at the National Hospital of Pediatrics, the child had orange poisoning, because the concentration of lead in this orange medicine exceeded the prescribed level.

According to Dr. Dinh Thi Hong, who directly treated N., said: ' After the examination and doing some tests, the doctors diagnosed the child with acute brain syndrome due to lead poisoning. severity, in addition to liver damage, severe anemia requiring blood transfusion. '

Currently, after nearly 7 days of treatment at the National Hospital of Pediatrics, Nguyen Phan Bao N has shown signs of remission and is gradually recovering his health. But this is also a provincial lesson for many parents to not arbitrarily use unidentified drugs with young children.

Signs to identify children with lead poisoning

When young children with lead poisoning often have many symptoms such as lethargy, convulsions, lethargy, paralysis, behavioral peculiar behavior, little play, tired, uncomfortable, insensitive, lost coordination, loss go to study skills, poor learning, mental retardation.

For children who show severe poisoning, they will have severe seizures, difficulty breathing and affect their health

Besides, children also have abdominal pain, anorexia, anemia that affects children's brain development, affecting their cognitive ability later.