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Ars Technica is reporting on a story where the CDC report that a Homeopathic “healing bracelet” caused lead poisoning in a infant girl
[...] during a routine health screening. Healthcare workers found that the baby was anemic and had a blood lead level of 41 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL). While no level of lead is known to be safe, the CDC recommends health interventions when a child’s blood lead level reaches 5 μg/dL.
[...] The authorities subsequently homed in on the bracelet, a homemade “homeopathic magnetic hematite healing bracelet.” The baby’s parents said they bought it from an artisan at a local fair and gave it to the baby to wear and mouth to ease teething pain. Small spacer beads on the bracelet (shown) tested positive for lead at a level of 17,000 parts-per-million. The Consumer Product Commission in 2010 set the allowable limit of lead in products intended for children at 100 parts-per-million.
The authors of the report—Drs. Patricia Garcia and Jennifer Haile, lead treatment specialists at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center—noted that the bracelet had no warnings or branding. They added that they couldn’t get the fair’s vendor information and were unable to track down the bracelet’s maker.
Also at Live Science
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @07:46AM (3 children)
Leave khallow alone! He would never suggest that poisoning children is a good thing, unless it lead to the profits of the superior race that had inherited superior libertarian like genes. Cause, you know, intelligence is inherited. But what khallow forgot, is that sometimes it skips a generation. Especially a millenial generation that suddenly things that Nazism and White Supremacy, and D'nesh D'Souza D'aesh are all cool things. I see khallow taking a big flip, from rightwing nut-job American to ISIS radicalized Muslim. Not much of a change. He could do it. But he would have to give up on the whole poisoning children thing, then, khallow would.
Poor khallow! I hope he can find a friend.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday September 04 2017, @09:27AM (1 child)
Judging from the serial flamebait mods, khallow will not be chiming in? Oh, how I miss khallow! We used to talk about renting out backhoes, capital intensification and the immiserization of the proletariat, but then for some reason he just seemed to no want to discuss thing so much any more. Maybe he did find homeopathic bliss, in the hotpots of the Firehole River. Or, he actually went back to school? Nah.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:27PM
Help me Obi Wan Khallow. You're my only hope!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @10:57AM
But... but... it did lead! Specifically, TFS says it lead at a level of 17,000 parts-per-million. That's 1.7%.