Hair and Blood as Substrates for Screening Children for Lead Poisoning.

From: Archives of Environmental Health | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: ESTEBAN, EMILIO; JONES, ROBERT L.; NOONAN, GARY; RUBIN, CAROL H. | Copyright information

In Russia, hair, rather than blood, is usually used as a substrate for screening children for lead poisoning. We attempted to gauge the accuracy of this method by comparing these two methods. The evaluation was done in Saratov, Russia. We collected hair and blood samples from 189 children who attended 11 kindergartens. Their mean blood lead concentration was 9.8 [micro] g/dl (range = 3.1-35.7 [micro] g/dl), and their mean hair lead concentration was 7.2 [micro] g/g (range - 1.0-7.2 [micro] ...

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