PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P I Dargan
AU  - P H Evans
AU  - I M House
AU  - A L Jones
TI  - A case of lead poisoning due to snooker chalk
AID  - 10.1136/adc.83.6.519
DP  - 2000 Dec 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 519--520
VI  - 83
IP  - 6
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/83/6/519.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/83/6/519.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child2000 Dec 01; 83
AB  - A 3 year, 9 month old child with pica presented with a blood lead concentration of 1.74 μmol/l (360 μg/l). The source of poisoning was snooker chalk (lead content 7200 μg/g). She was treated with intravenous calcium disodium edetate chelation. Thirty months later her blood lead was 0.39 μmol/l (80 μg/l). This case illustrates the need to be vigilant for more unusual causes of lead poisoning in the home.