clinical features
Last edited 04/2022 and last reviewed 04/2022
Possible clinical features of someone, usually a child, who has ingested lead include:
- encephalopathy:
- irritability
- ataxia
- drowsiness
- convulsions
- eventually, coma
- colicky abdominal pain with vomiting
- pica
- papilloedema
- in the longer term it may cause learning disability and behaviour disorders
- acute lead poisoning may cause a Fanconi syndrome
mental retardation (term that has been replaced by intellectual developmental disorder)