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Professional Education & Training
Educational efforts focus on prevention methods and target high-risk groups. Lead poisoning awareness is increased by the distribution of educational materials, through various community-based outreach activities, annual health fairs, conferences, and coordination of training sessions. Training provides skills and knowledge to local health care providers related to lead poisoning prevention, treatment and reporting
Evaluating and Testing Children
Identification of children with elevated blood lead levels ensures that appropriate medical follow-up occurs and adverse effects of lead poisoning are minimized. According to Illinois law, physicians are required to test all children 6 years of age or younger if they reside in a high-risk area, and they are required to be evaluated if they reside in a low-risk area. The Illinois Lead Program recommends all children be evaluated or tested as indicated at ages 12 months and 24 months, and 3, 4,5, and 6 years of age, as indicated by Handbook for Providers of Healthy Kids Services (updates reflecting new recommendations and updates to the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to be published soon) using the program’s Childhood Lead Risk Questionnaire and Guidelines and the IDPH Childhood Evaluation and Testing Recommendations.
Illinois law requires all children be assessed for risk of lead exposure, and tested if necessary, for enrollment into daycare, preschool, and kindergarten. Proof of evaluation and testing, if deemed necessary, must be provided. (See the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act and/or the Lead Poisoning Prevention Code for details.)
Lead Poisoning Prevention Webinars
October 21, 2018: IDPH Lead Program Presents – A Look at Lead Exposed Children and Case Management through the IDPH Lead Program
Previously Recorded Webinars
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Resources
- CDC: Lead
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Recalls
- EPA: Lead
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Recalls
- Foreign Products Which May Contain Lead
- HUD: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
- Lead Source Guide
- National Center for Healthy Housing
- NMA: Neonatal Lead Poisoning From Maternal Pica Behavior During Pregnancy
- Recalls.gov
Forms
Laws & Rules
Publications
- Algorithm - Breastfeeding
- Algorithm - Childhood
- Algorithm - Infant Testing
- Algorithm - Prenatal Risk
- A Landlord’s Guide to Working Safely With Lead
- Case Management Manual
- Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Español) (En Français)
- Children and Lead Booklet
- Foreign Products Which May Contain Lead - Handout
- Get the Lead Out: Activities to Reduce Lead Exposure (Booklet Set-up)
- Get the Lead Out: Homeowner's Lead-based Paint Abatement Guide (Booklet Set-up)
- Get the Lead Out: Intervention (En Español)
- Get the Lead Out: Prevention (En Español)
- Get the Lead Out: Renovation (En Español)
- Hardware Store Poster Warning against Dry Scraping and Sanding (En Español)
- Healthy Homes: Keeping Your Home Healthy and Safe (Booklet Set-up)
- Housekeeping Tips to Reduce Lead Exposure (En Español) (En Français)
- IDPH Childhood Blood Lead Evaluation and Testing Recommendations
- Keeping Kids Safe
- Lead Cleaning Checklist
- Lead in Industry: A Guide for Employees
- Lead Poisoning for Health Care Providers
- Lead Source Guide - Handout
- Lead Testing and Case Follow-Up Guidelines for Local Health Departments
- Lead Testing Recommendations for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- Medical Consequences of Lead Poisoning (En Español) (En Français)
- Nutrition and Lead Poisoning (En Español) (En Français)
- Pediatric Lead Poisoning High-Risk ZIP Code Areas (En Español)
- Physician Testing Handout (en Español)
- Pregnant Women and Lead Poisoning: How to Protect Your Unborn Child (En Español)
- Preventing and Testing for Childhood Lead Poisoning – A Reference Guide for Physicians and Health Care Providers
- Sources of Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Español) (En Français)
- What You Should Know About Exposure to Lead (En Español)
- Why is confirmatory venous testing needed? (En Español) (Arabic) (Polish)