| Household Contamination |
| Personal Symptoms | Possible Causes |
- Frequent ear & eye infections, diarrhea, urinary tract infections,
skin diseases.M/li>
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- Coliform contamination in drinking water.
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- In children: hearing loss, inability to concentrate, hyperactivity,
reduced IQ
- In middle aged med: hypertension, brain & kidney damage, strokes,
heart attacks
- In pregnant women: increaded blood pressure, early delivery, low birth
weight babies, minor birth defects
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- Lead contamination in drinking water, in paint & paint dust
- live in home built before 1978
- Does not eat regular meals
- Live with people who work in lead-related jobs
- Play in places contaminated with lead
- Lead poisoning comes from:
- Moving parts of doors & windows making lead dust
- Lead-based paints
- Soil nest to exterior of buildings or near busy streets
- Drinking water
- Colored newsprint
- Car batteries
- Glazed pottery and cookware produced outside the U.S.
- Removing old paint to paint house or refinish furniture
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- May cause cancer
- May cause liver and kidney damage
- May cause thyroid and reproductive organ damage
- Nervous, immune, and circulatory system effects.
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- Herbicide & pesticide contamination in drinking water
- Herbicide & pesticide contamination comes from rain water runoff
of farm fields and laws
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- In babies and children: methemoglobinemia ("blue baby syndrome", Oxygen
deprivation which may be harmful to developing nervous systems or cause
death by suffocation).
- In adults: may cause cancer.
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- Nitrates in drinking water
- Nitrate contamination comes from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, and sewage
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- Loss of energy, fatigue, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, watery or
bloody diarrhea, thickening or discoloration of skin...leading to
skin cancer, numbness in hands & feet.
- Affects young children, older adults, people with long-term illnesses,
and unborn babies first.
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- Arsenic contamination in drinking water.
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