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Lead poisoning from eating game shot with lead core bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="blvette75" data-source="post: 1925835" data-attributes="member: 72440"><p>In a past life I was employed as a government chemist, NIOSH testing inclusive of clinical exposure to lead, suspected lead poisoning. The ability to develop lead poisoning from a gunshot wound is remote. The modes of entry where you can develop it are the following. You can breath it in as in smelting or in the past when there was lead in gasoline, the fumes in a closed area or from cars emitting fumes from lead based gasoline while operating. Gasoline with lead in it could be absorbed in the skin. Small micronized particles of lead that are small enough to enter through lung aveoli, but damage there is typically due to the dust itself on the lungs not lead poisoning. Lead in itself must be chemically bound to another element to be ingestable and be absorbed into the body, think to table salt with is sodium Chloride or any drug you may ingest or mineral supplement. A major problem in poorer areas of the country used to be small children ingesting lead paint. Which due to what the lead was bound to would have sweet taste. This would have devastating affects on the brain development of these children. A fully developed brain does not have the sensitivity to lead as a juvenile brain. The harm from ingesting lead that has been fragmented is from the sharp edges to the digestive tract than from the clinical exposure to lead. There is a lot of silliness on the internet, if anyone does not believe me take a piece of lead weigh it expose it to gastric fluid (the acidic compound found in your stomach) for 1.5 hours, then rinse it and weigh it it should be the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blvette75, post: 1925835, member: 72440"] In a past life I was employed as a government chemist, NIOSH testing inclusive of clinical exposure to lead, suspected lead poisoning. The ability to develop lead poisoning from a gunshot wound is remote. The modes of entry where you can develop it are the following. You can breath it in as in smelting or in the past when there was lead in gasoline, the fumes in a closed area or from cars emitting fumes from lead based gasoline while operating. Gasoline with lead in it could be absorbed in the skin. Small micronized particles of lead that are small enough to enter through lung aveoli, but damage there is typically due to the dust itself on the lungs not lead poisoning. Lead in itself must be chemically bound to another element to be ingestable and be absorbed into the body, think to table salt with is sodium Chloride or any drug you may ingest or mineral supplement. A major problem in poorer areas of the country used to be small children ingesting lead paint. Which due to what the lead was bound to would have sweet taste. This would have devastating affects on the brain development of these children. A fully developed brain does not have the sensitivity to lead as a juvenile brain. The harm from ingesting lead that has been fragmented is from the sharp edges to the digestive tract than from the clinical exposure to lead. There is a lot of silliness on the internet, if anyone does not believe me take a piece of lead weigh it expose it to gastric fluid (the acidic compound found in your stomach) for 1.5 hours, then rinse it and weigh it it should be the same. [/QUOTE]
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