Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
Symptoms for lead:
- Bladder and kidneys
- Kidney damage
- Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and throat
Metallic taste Vision problems - Yellow eyes (
jaundice )
- Gastrointestinal
Abdominal pain - Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Excessive thirst
- Loss of appetite
- Vomiting
- Weight loss
- Heart and blood
Collapse Convulsions High blood pressure Low blood pressure
- Muscles and joints
Paralysis Muscle aches Fatigue Weakness - Joint pain
- Nervous system
Coma Confusion Excitability Hallucinations - Headache
- Irritability
- Lack of desire to do anything
- Sleeping difficulty
- Tremor
- Twitching
Uncoordinated movements
- Skin
- Pale skin
Yellow skin
Symptoms for tin and zinc chloride:
- Bladder and kidneys
- Decreased urine output
- No urine output
- Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and throat
- Burns in mouth and throat
- Yellow eyes (
jaundice )
- Gastrointestinal
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Skin
- Yellow skin
Symptoms for ethylene glycol:
- Disturbance in the acid balance of the blood (can lead to failure of many organs)
- Kidney failure
Symptoms for cadmium:
- Kidney damage
- Reduced brain function or intelligence
- Reduced lung function
- Softening of the bones and kidney failure (itai-itai disease)
Symptoms for bismuth:
- Diarrhea
- Eye irritation
Gingivitis - Kidney damage
- Metallic taste
- Skin irritation
Symptoms for silver:
- Greyish-black staining of the skin and mucus membranes (argyria)
- Silver deposits in the eyes (argyrosis)
Symptoms for antimony:
- Chemical burns
- Depression
- Dizziness
Eczema - Headache
- Irritation of mucus membranes
- Stomach problems
Symptoms for copper:
- Fever
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Review Date: 02/15/2009
Reviewed By: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason
Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve,
MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
