The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
NOTICE TO PERSONS LEASING HOUSING CONSTRUCTED BEFORE 1978
 "Watch Out for Lead-Based Paint Poisoning!"

If the home, condominium or apartment you intend to lease was built before 1978, it may contain lead-based paint. 
About three out of every four pre-1978 buildings have lead based paint.

Lead poisoning means having high concentrations of lead in the body.
 

LEAD CAN:

• Cause major health problems, especially in children under 7 years old
• Damage a child's brain, nervous system, kidneys, hearing or coordination
• Affect learning
• Cause behavior problems, blindness and even death
• Cause problems in pregnancy and affect a baby's normal development.

WHO GETS LEAD POISONING?

1. Lives in an older home (built/constructed before 1978, and even more so before 1960).
2. Does not eat regular meals (an empty stomach accepts lead more easily.
3. Does not eat enough foods with iron or calcium.
4. Has parents who work in lead-related jobs.
5. Has played in the same places as brothers, sisters, and friends who have been lead poisoned. (Lead poison cannot be spread from person to person.  It comes from contact with the lead.).

Women of child bearing age are also at risk, because lead poisoning can cause miscarriages, premature births, and the poison can be passed onto their unborn babies.
 

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

• Moving parts of windows and doors, that can make
• Lead-based paint on windows, doors, wood trim, walls and cabinets in kitchens and bathrooms, on porches, stair railings, fire escapes and lamp posts.
• Soil next to exterior of buildings that have been painted with lead-based paint and leaded gasoline dust in soil near busy streets.
• Drinking water (pipes and solder)
• Parents who may bring lead dust home from work on skin, clothes and hair.
• Colored newsprint and car batteries.
• Highly glazed pottery and cookware from other countries.
• Removing old paint when refinishing furniture.

In recent years some users of lead in products that could cause lead poisoning have been reduced or banned.  This is true for lead in gasoline, lead in solder, used in water pipes, and lead in paint.  Still, a great deal of lead remains in and around older homes, and lead-based paint and accompanying lead dust are seen as the major sources.
 

HOW DO I KNOW IF MY CHILD IS AFFECTED?

WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?

HOW DO I KNOW IF MY HOME HAS LEAD-BASED PAINT?

WHAT DO I DO IF MY HOMES DOES HAVE LEAD?

• Keep your child away from paint chips and dust.
• Wet-mop floors and wipe down surfaces often, especially where the floors and walls meet.  Be sure to clean the space where the window sash rests on the sill.
• Keeping the floor clear of paint chips, dust and dirt is easy and very important.
• Do not sweep or vacuum lead-based paint chips or lead dust with an ordinary vacuum cleaner.  Lead dust is so fine it will pass through a vacuum cleaner bag and spread into the air you breathe.
• Make sure your children wash their hands frequently.
• Wash toys, teething rings, and pacifiers frequently.

Please mail or bring your completed Lead Based Paint Notice to Vision Realty, 500 Mena Street, Mena, AR 71953.

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