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Childhood Lead Poisoning Risk Factor Questionnaire

If your child is aged between 9 and 48 months, does he or she:

• Live in, or frequently visit, a house* built before 1970 with peeling or chipping paint?

• Live in, or frequently visit, a house* built before 1970 with previous or ongoing renovation where old paint (interior or exterior) has been burnt or sanded off, or where ceilings, walls or floors demolished?

• Live in, or frequently visit, a house* near a lead releasing industry, eg lead mine, lead smelter, battery-recycling plant?

(*-This includes day-care centres, preschools and homes of babysitters relatives, etc)

• Live with an adult whose job or hobby uses lead? (eg lead mining or smelting, automotive repair, panel-beating, leadlighting, fishing sinker making, electronics, shooting instruction, car-battery service/ repair or manufacture).

Does your child….

• Have a brother or sister, housemate or playmate with an elevated blood lead level?

• Sometimes eat non-food items such as soil or paint?

• Have any of the following conditions sometimes associated with lead poisoning, eg iron deficiency anaemia, behaviour problem** , learning problem** or developmental delay**?
  (**- note that these conditions may not be diagnosed until after the lead level has returned to "normal")

Yes � No �

For more information on lead contact the Lead Advisory Service Australia (see below).

If renovation is planned, please advise your doctor and obtain a copy of the booklet "Lead Safe - A renovator's guide to the dangers of lead" from the EPA pollution line on 131 555.

The absence of symptoms does not take away the need for a blood lead test, as most lead-poisoned children have no outward symptoms until high levels are reached.

Painless blood lead testing is possible through the use of anaesthetic patches (EMLA™ Patches) available without prescription from chemists.

If your child has a risk factor for lead poisoning then the pathology test is eligible for Medicare benefits.

Parents and doctors can contact the Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS)
for information on all aspects of lead poisoning..

Free call: 1800 626 086 Phone +61 2 9716 0014, Fax: +61 2 9716 9005

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