{"id":919,"date":"2018-11-21T01:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=919"},"modified":"2018-12-13T01:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:28:39","slug":"lead-poisoning-another-reason-to-avoid-alternative-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Lead Poisoning: Another Reason To Avoid Alternative Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Remember the hullabaloo over the Flint water crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, there was an excellent reason to be concerned. Lead is one of the few chemicals that are scary in relatively small amounts. Lead contamination, when it occurs, is a problem that needs to be quickly resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the average blood lead levels (BLLs) of children in Flint increased by just a tiny amount &#8212; so tiny, in fact, that the water crisis represented just a tiny blip on an overall downward trend in average BLL.<\/p>\n<p>That good news didn&#8217;t stop the media from fanning the flames of panic and scaremongering. In July 2018, CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour flat-out lied about the situation in Flint, falsely stating that children &#8220;now live with the irreversible effects&#8221; of lead poisoning, and featuring a guest who claimed it was the &#8220;most important&#8230; public health disaster of this young century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina, blood lead levels (BLLs) in children are decreasing, but one county saw a curious uptick in the number of children who had elevated BLLs (defined as \u22655 \u03bcg\/dL). An investigation revealed that spices, herbal remedies, and ceremonial powders may be partially to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC report focused on 61 children (from 59 residences) with elevated BLLs from 2011 to 2018. (The average was 17 \u03bcg\/dL, more than three times the CDC threshold.) Investigators went to the homes to determine possible causes &#8212; from paint to cookware &#8212; and the factors that played an outsized role were the aforementioned substances. Both nonedible (e.g., kumkum, indoor, and Surma) and edible (e.g., saffron and turmeric) items had high lead levels.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsh.org\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/lead-poisoning-another-reason-avoid-alternative-medicine-13618\">ACSH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the hullabaloo over the Flint water crisis? Without a doubt, there was an excellent reason to be concerned. Lead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","tag-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}