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Valledor T, Borbolla L, Villa Campos J, Garcia Palacio A, Garcia Otero A. Lead poisoning in infants: Recent advances in the treatment; 8 cases in 2 families. Revista Colombiana de Pediatria Puericultura. 1956; 16:173-194. (2917) [Eight cases of Pb poisoning in children aged 7 mo-9 yr were studied. There were 2 deaths by encephalitis. The others suffered varying degrees of poisoning. In the case of the one family (3 children), the source was an abandoned Pb foundry where the children played; the other family lived close to a storage battery factory and here also the children played in the yards around it. Two of them were treated with 2.5 mg BAL/kg, 4 times daily, for 2 days and 2 times/day for the next 18 days. In 4 cases 60 mg CaEDTA/kg/day, distributed in various doses over the day, were administered orally for 20 days. Tablets of 335 mg CaEDTA were used. The clinical diagnostic criterion for Pb poisoning was irritability, headache, vomiting, constipation, abdominal colics and Burton's line on the gums. Anemia, basophilic stippling, decrease of hemoglobin, glycosuria and radiologic changes of the large bones were other signs. In 7 cases EEG's were taken. Results of clinical and laboratory tests for the 8 cases were listed.]

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