"Unsafe levels of lead still found in California youths"

      Lead is around everyone. It can easily be found in toys, jewelry, old paint, dirt, and home remedies. Lead poisoning can have everlasting and irreversible effects on children damaging their IQ's and causing brain damage. In the recent article "Unsafe levels of lead still found in California youths" published in the Los Angeles Times by Anna Gorman, one can read about an apparent lead poisoning occurence. Nelly Gomez refused to eat, her parents believed she had indigestion. Whatever she at she threw up. However a blood test revealed that she did in fact have lead poisoning. Lead poisoning is more common in low income neighborhoods where families like Nelly's are living. Health agencies such as the CDC are considering lowering the lead level considered safe for children. "Currently, the agency says 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood is considered elevated. But in light of research showing damage to children with lower levels, an expert advisory panel wants the cutoff dropped to 5 micrograms." Children under 6 are more likely to be exposed to lead poisoning because they put more things in their mouth. 
       Issues like these are very important and must be taken care of 

immediately. With this bad econommy one can only imagine how hard it must be to pay for proper diagnostics and tests by professional doctors. Everybody must work as a one to find a answer to this problem. There are many cases that are going undetected and untreated which are causing children to suffer.