New Study: Costs of Treating Children with Lead Poisoning Extremely High

The healthcare costs of treating children with lead poisoning are much more than the expenses for treating children affected by autism, asthma or attention deficit disorder, a new study shows. According to a UPI report, researchers in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York say U.S. childhood disease and medical conditions add more than $76 billion annually to our nation’s healthcare costs. The cost of treating children with lead poisoning by far dwarfed the expense of treating children with other ailments.
The cost of treating childhood lead poisoning annually in the United States is $50.9 billion. Compare that to $7.9 billion for autism, $5.4 billion for intellectual disability, $5.1 billion for mercury exposure and $95 million for cancer. The study states that environmental regulations and laws aimed to protect the public’s health can help reduce the toll on the children’s health as well as the economy.
Lead poisoning is a toxic condition that results from the absorption of excessive amounts of lead into the victim’s body. Children are most often victims of lead poisoning when they have been exposed to lead-based paint or lead-tainted toys. Lead poisoning can have serious and permanent health effects on children such as brain damage or learning disabilities. It is important to know and understand that property owners and managers have a legal obligation to tenants to protect them from any foreseeable health risk. A failure to do so may be considered negligence. If your child has been diagnosed with lead poisoning, you need a tenacious and experienced personal injury lawyer on your side.
The New York personal injury lawyers with the Law Offices of Kenneth A. Wilhelm have successfully handled similar cases. We recovered a sum of $1,162,500 for a child who suffered lead poisoning from paint in her apartment. We tirelessly fight to obtain fair and full compensation for injured victims. Call us at 1-800-WORK-4-YOU (1-800-967-5496). We can also help you with your accident, medical malpractice case etc., if it occurred in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, or Florida.
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Source: UPI