Is lead poisoning an environmental or nutritional disease?

Question

Does inhalation of lead ions counts as nutritional? because isn't that how most lead poisoning occurs; like through dust and fumes?

I know you can get lead in food which can cause lead poisoning, but is that common enough to make it a nutritional disease?

Answer 1

lead poisioning is an environmental disorder caused due to the release of d heavy metal Lead from vehicles and industries.

Answer 2

It depends on how you're getting the lead.

Little kids will chew on their cribs. If they've been painted with lead-based paint, that's an environmental disease. If you inhale the fumes from a car that's using tetra-ethyl lead in its gasoline, that's an environmental disease.

At least some lead-based compounds are sweet. If someone were to discover a plant that is sweet out of proportion to its sugar content, dieters would madly rush to add it to their coffee, etc., but if the sweetness were lead-based, that would be a nutritional disease. (Stevia? I don't know.)

If you are being fed lead by your wife, because she believes marriage should be for life, not ended quickly by a divorce, that would be a nutritional disease.

Answer 3

It is first an environmental and later a nutritional issue. Lead is not a common ingredient of food and so any intake of lead is due to environmental contamination.

Once lead enters your system, you have a nutritional problem, that is how to eliminate it.

Answer 4

Enviromental, it can be ingested or absorbed through skin In north america efforts are made to reduce enviromental exposure,to keep it out of foods, the romans used lead pipes and roofing that tainted water supplies for drinking, some pottery glazes are beauiful and shiny because of the high lead content, even crystal stemware contains lead .

Answer 5

http://www.nsc.org/library/facts/lead.htm