Ingesting lead will absolutely leach lead into the blood stream. Stomach acids break it down.
Kids and lead paint....roman civilization...
Lead bullets are metallic lead. Lead paint is lead oxide,
a lead salt! Lead that is oxidized is readily absorbed into the blood stream. Or one of the lead salts like lead styphonate.((Lead styphonate is what makes primers work, shooting in enclosed spaces like indoor shooting ranges is where shooters get high levels of lead.))
Tumbling with dry media get some of the Lead Styphonate out of the inside of the brass, and into the dry media. Emptying a tumbler indoors without ventilation or a good filter on yer face can get a lot of lead in your blood.
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Lead has to be in a molecular form to be absorbed into the blood stream.
Following simple precautions will prevent absorption.
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1940
I suppose promoting everyone to Sargent would solve the problem.
F. Guffey
Mine tailings are loaded with lead oxide. The lead bearing ore is in the form of lead oxide. It has to be smelted to return it to the metallic state. I barely passed high school chemistry, so my terminology is weak. But the reaction to take an oxide ore to the metallic state is called reduction. Removing the oxygen that has made the oxide from the ore to return it to the metallic state.
As far as the lead in-the-blood-test, I get mine checked every year along with my lipid panel at the VA. My NP only raised the question one time, the first time, as to why I was concerned. I simply said I make and shoot lead bullets, that involves handling a lot of lead. Once she heard that, she ordered the test. Just had to bleed a bit longer! Oh, I've never gotten above 9.0, most times it's under 7.0
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Oh the ever awesome VA experience... did you ever deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan? If you did just say you were exposed to burn pits (which I guarantee you were) and you want a blood a analysis for heavy metal exposures. It's what I do.... [/QUOTE]
I've had nothing
GREAT experiences with the VA. Handling my diabetes, several urinary tract surgeries, and most recently CABG heart surgery,(wrongly called open heart surgery.) (
Coronary
Artery
Bypass
Graft. The hospital at Milwaukee is an old building, but the staff and doctors are very capable, and the equipment is new and run by experts.