NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Louisiana health experts encourage parents across the state to get their young children tested for elevated lead levels.
Mark Ryan, Executive Director of the Louisiana Poison Center, warned that elevated lead levels can be hard to recognize from symptoms.
“You can have developmental learning difficulties, they can become irritable, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, fatigue, listless, weight loss, loss of appetite, so there’s nothing that really points out ‘hey this is lead’,” Ryan said…