How can le​ad harm my health?

Lead can affect many parts of the body.

• Thinking, learning, and memory problems
• Bad mood
• Depression
• Tiredness
• Headache
  

• Heart attack
• Stroke
  
• High blood pressure
  

• Stomach pain
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
  

• ​Kidney failure
  

• Pain
  
• Numbness/tingling
• Weakness​
  

Some effects of lead poisoning canno​​t be felt, like high blood pressure and kidney damage.

Lead can also:

• Reduce a man's sperm count, making it harder to get a woman pregnant.
• Increase the chance of a woman having a miscarriage or stillbirth.
  
• Damage the brain and nervous system of your baby before and after it is born, causing slowed growth and development, learning and behavior problems, and hearing and speech problems.
  

​Even if you don't have any symptoms, yo​u can still have lead poisoning.