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Professional Education & Training
Educational efforts focus on prevention methods and target high-risk groups. Lead poisoning awareness is increased by the distribution of educational materials, through various community-based outreach activities, annual health fairs, conferences, and coordination of training sessions. Training provides skills and knowledge to local health care providers related to lead poisoning prevention, treatment and reporting
Evaluating and Testing Children
Identification of children with elevated blood lead levels ensures that appropriate medical follow-up occurs and adverse effects of lead poisoning are minimized. According to Illinois law, physicians are required to test all children 6 years of age or younger if they reside in a high-risk area, and they are required to be evaluated if they reside in a low-risk area. The Illinois Lead Program recommends all children be evaluated or tested as indicated at ages 12 months and 24 months, and 3, 4,5, and 6 years of age, as indicated by Handbook for Providers of Healthy Kids Services (updates reflecting new recommendations and updates to the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to be published soon) using the program’s Childhood Lead Risk Questionnaire and Guidelines and the IDPH Childhood Evaluation and Testing Recommendations.
Illinois law requires all children be assessed for risk of lead exposure, and tested if necessary, for enrollment into daycare, preschool, and kindergarten. Proof of evaluation and testing, if deemed necessary, must be provided. (See the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act and/or the Lead Poisoning Prevention Code for details.)
Lead Poisoning Prevention Webinars
October 21, 2018: IDPH Lead Program Presents – A Look at Lead Exposed Children and Case Management through the IDPH Lead Program
Previously Recorded Webinars
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Resources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Lead
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Recalls
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Lead
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Recalls
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
- National Center for Healthy Housing
- National Library of Medicine | Neonatal Lead Poisoning From Maternal Pica Behavior During Pregnancy
- Recalls.gov
Forms
Laws & Rules
Publications
- Algorithm - Breastfeeding
- Algorithm - Childhood
- Algorithm - Infant Testing
- Algorithm - Prenatal Risk
- Case Management Manual
- Childhood Lead Poisoning | Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Español) | Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Français)
- Children and Lead Booklet
- Foreign Products Which May Contain Lead
- Hardware Store Poster Warning against Dry Scraping and Sanding | Hardware Store Poster Warning against Dry Scraping and Sanding (En Español)
- Childhood Blood Lead Evaluation and Testing Recommendations
- Lead Testing and Case Follow-Up Guidelines for Local Health Departments
- Lead Testing Recommendations for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- Physician Testing Handout | Physician Testing Handout (En Español)
- Pregnant Women and Lead Poisoning: How to Protect Your Unborn Child | Pregnant Women and Lead Poisoning: How to Protect Your Unborn Child (En Español)
- Preventing and Testing for Childhood Lead Poisoning – A Reference Guide for Physicians and Health Care Providers
- Sources of Childhood Lead Poisoning | Sources of Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Español) | Sources of Childhood Lead Poisoning (En Français)
- Confirmatory Testing Letter
