RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A case of lead poisoning due to snooker chalk
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 519
OP 520
DO 10.1136/adc.83.6.519
VO 83
IS 6
A1 P I Dargan
A1 P H Evans
A1 I M House
A1 A L Jones
YR 2000
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/83/6/519.abstract
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.