How Do You Train Nurses To Deal With Lead Poisoning?

Lead poisoning is a serious medical condition that is also called plumbism, saturnism and painter's colic.

It has often been said (though not necessarily in this context) that 'prevention is better than cure' and this is very true in the case of lead poisoning.  It is better to decrease all potentially dangerous exposure to lead. If is not possible then quick diagnosis and appropriate treatment is required.

Nurses will have to be carefully briefed on the symptoms of lead poisoning. They include loss of memory, dullness, lethargy, kidney failure and high blood pressure. This will go a long way in the swift administration of the necessary treatment.

Nurses have to be trained to assist the doctors in the chelation therapies like DMSA, EDTA and British anti-lewisite that will bring down the level of lead that is in the bloodstream.

Nurses can also be trained in the administration of Alumina and Causticum which are antidotes for lead poisoning.