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| Note; additional cards in Kaplan pharm |
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| Arsenic is associated with mining, but how do we get it out of the water? |
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| What are the side effects of dimercaprol and succimer? |
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| What is NOEL? What is it for lead? |
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-No Observable Effect Level (toxic threshold basically)
-There is no NOEL for lead; there is no measurable level of lead in the body at which no harm occurs |
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| What do we see with lead in pregnant women? |
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| -Passes the placenta easily |
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| What about lead in babies and children? |
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-Babies are of extra concern because the BBB is not complete
-Children absorb it it much better (5-10X better) so they are particularly effected |
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| What does our body do with the lead? |
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-Much of it gets stored in the *bone with most blood lead actually coming from bone lead
-Bone lead gets mobilized more in *pregnancy as well |
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| What is an additional drug that can be used for lead poisoning, other than dimercaprol and succimer? |
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| What else might we see succimer called? |
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| -Dimercaptosuccinic acid or *DMSA |
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| What is NOEL for mercury? |
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| -There is none; always bad lol |
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| What is the difference between a toxin and a toxicant? |
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-A toxin is poison made by an organism
-A toxicant is a poison made by humans |
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| -A poisonous compound that is in some plants of the nightshade family |
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