I Missed National Lead Poisoning Week

I received an email from one of the PR people I work with and didn’t realize that National Lead Poisoning Week was actually just for a week. So often campaigns last for a month so I figured I’d use it in November sometime.

Well, I went back through my emails tonight and realized I totally blew the opportunity to post this information when it should’ve been posted, which was the last full week of October.

I’m going to rectify that right now because every week is worth sharing about lead poisoning, especially after reading Shell’s Things I Can’t Say post about her son’s issues with lead poisoning.

California Poison Control Observes National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
Paint, Jewelry, Candy, Medicines Responsible for Children’s Lead Poisoning

San Francisco, CA – October 25, 2010 – California Poison Control System (http://www.calpoison.org) is observing National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week and warns consumers that lead can be found in a variety of products available to children.  

“Lead poisoning is an important cause of learning disabilities, anemia, as well as growth problems, and children exposed to lead may have attention and aggression problems,” said Dr. Richard Geller, Executive Medical Director for the CPCS.  He added that children are most commonly exposed to lead by ingesting paint chips or dirt that is contaminated with lead, especially if one or both parents have occupational exposure to lead.

Dr. Geller said ways to prevent lead poisoning in children include having them wash their hands frequently, washing their toys often and providing a diet high in iron and calcium.  Children who are undernourished can absorb more lead into their bodies than children with well balanced diets.  Consumer lead testing kits can be found at most hardware stores and may be of use in detecting lead in the home.  For more free poison and safety tips, text the word TIPS or PUNTOS for Spanish to 69866. 

Dr. Geller offered the following 10 lead poisoning prevention:

1.            Make sure your children do not chew on painted surfaces, such as toys or window sills.

2.            Report chipped or cracked paint to your landlord if you live in an older home built before 1978.

3.            Cover paint that is peeling or chipping with duct tape until it can be removed.

4.            Ask your doctor to test your young children for lead even if they seem healthy. 

5.            Children's necklaces and bracelets, adult watches, as well as religious jewelry from Mexico, have been found to contain lead. 

6.            Keys frequently have small amounts of lead in them – do not let babies play with or teethe on your keychain.

7.            Run the faucet for a few minutes before using cold water for cooking, drinking or preparing infant formula (this can help flush out the lead which can build up in sitting water), especially if the cold water hasn't been used in the past two hours.

8.            Avoid eating foods that are canned outside the United States.

9.            Traces of lead have been found in some candy and its packaging imported from Mexico containing chili or tamarind.

10.        Folk medicines (especially home remedies) imported from another country also contain lead. These include: pay-loo-ah (fever and rash treatment); azarcon (also called Maria Luisa, Liga, Alarzon, Greta, Coral and Rueda); Asian folk remedies, including Ghasard, Bali Goli and Kandu; and Middle Eastern folk remedies, including farouk and bint al zahab.

Call California Poison Control System at 1-800-222-1222 for more information on lead poisoning. Trained certified pharmacists, nurses and poison information providers to help 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  The service is free, confidential and interpreters are always available.  Become a fan on Facebook at California Poison Control System and follow on Twitter @poisoninfo.

The CPCS has four divisions located at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, Children’s Hospital Central California in Fresno/Madera and the UC San Diego Medical Center in San Diego.  The CPCS is part of the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy and responsible to the California Emergency Medical Services Authority.

YouTube - Lead in Toys News Story - English http://bit.ly/df0H4L
YouTube - Lead in Toys News Story - Spanish http://bit.ly/aRmLpj
YouTube - :30 PSA: Warning: Lead in Children's Toys http://bit.ly/aegB4W
YouTube - :30 PSA: Warning: Lead in Children's Toys (Spanish) http://bit.ly/bu6Q5U

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…Featuring by Norah Jones Giveaway

I have to be honest here. I haven’t ever listened to Norah Jones. I know, how is that possible? Do I live under a rock?

No. I just listen to Christian music.

So, I figured reviewing …Featuring would be a great opportunity. I wasn’t disappointed. It was extremely interesting to listen to, for the most part. I just wouldn’t be able to listen to it all the time.

This CD is very eclectic. One moment I’m listening to Jazz, the next Country. Then another song will come on and I think I’m listening to music from the 50s and that will change to what sounds very 70s and makes me think of 007.

As the back of the cover says, “Recorded from 2001 to 2010, The Cameos, Duets, and collaborations on this compilation span the musical spectrum and show Norah Jones to be one of the decade’s most diverse musical connectors.”

* Website: http://bit.ly/norahsite
* Facebook: http://on.fb.me/norahFB
* YouTube: http://bit.ly/norahYT
* Preorder on Amazon: http://amzn.to/Njpreorder

...Featuring Track Listing:
1. Love Me – The Little Willies
2. Virginia Moon – The Foo Fighters featuring Norah Jones
3. Turn Them – Sean Bones featuring Norah Jones
4. Baby It's Cold Outside – Willie Nelson featuring Norah Jones
5. Bull Rider – Norah Jones and Sasha Dobson
6. Ruler Of My Heart – Dirty Dozen Brass Band featuring Norah Jones
7. The Best Part – El Madmo
8. Take Off Your Cool – OutKast featuring Norah Jones
9. Life Is Better – Q-Tip featuring Norah Jones
10. Soon The New Day – Talib Kweli featuring Norah Jones
11. Little Lou, Prophet Jack, Ugly John – Belle & Sebastian featuring Norah Jones
12. Here We Go Again – Ray Charles featuring Norah Jones
13. Loretta – Norah Jones featuring Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
14. Dear John – Ryan Adams featuring Norah Jones
15. Creepin' In – Norah Jones featuring Dolly Parton
16. Court & Spark – Herbie Hancock featuring Norah Jones
17. More Than This – Charlie Hunter featuring Norah Jones
18. Blue Bayou – Norah Jones featuring M. Ward

The one song I knew, but sounded mostly different was the last song Blue Bayou. Norah’s voice is hauntingly beautiful throughout the entire album.

I thoroughly enjoyed her duet with Willie Nelson Baby It’s Cold Outside.

Now, for the giveaway:

The giveaways is for MY REVIEW COPY! Please be aware that the CD has been listened to only once. It did not come wrapped and is in pristine condition. With that said, let’s find ourselves a winner!

Required: Tell me which duet you’re most interested in hearing.

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CSN Upcoming Giveaway

My mom always told me when I was younger that I was creative. Ok, maybe more artistic than creative. Just because I can stay in the lines when I color doesn’t mean I’m artistic.

So, back to me being not creative. I’d love to be able to come up with a fantastic post about having people come over and hang out around my dining room table sitting on my beautiful dining room chairs like That One Mom did at her site Only Parent Chronicles about coffee tables. Sigh…

Dining room chairs. How do I creatively slide that phrase into a post? I’m not That One Mom sadly.

Imagine furrowed brow, scrunched sideways mouth, and smoke pouring out of my ears. I’m thinking people.

Do you hear Jeopardy music?

I got nothing for you.

Ok, that’s not exactly true. *GRIN*

December 1-5th I’ll be part of the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop from Simply Stacie! One of the items up for grabs will be a $65 Gift Certificate! Pretty nice, huh?

As we get closer to the end of the month I’ll be giving you and idea as to all the companies I’ll be giving away gift certificates for! You DON’T want to miss it!

Dropps Laundry Pac Giveaway

I received Dropps® from my MOM Magazine package. I used a couple of pouches with a couple different loads of laundry and really liked the results.

I didn’t get any photos of me using it because when my daughter came home from college I sent her home with my full size package. What college student couldn’t use Dropps®? The packaging isn’t bulky and is perfect for the dorms!

When I used my 2 packets I held them in my hands to make sure they really did dissolve and to find out what they smelled like. I loved the Fresh Scent!

Where to buy Dropps
Dropps® laundry detergent pacs are now available at Target stores nationwide. Target carries the 26-load pouch in Fresh Scent and Scent + Dye Free (did we mention they are perfect for sensitive skin, too).

Easy peasy power pacs
The last thing moms need is another huge drippy, sticky jug of detergent to deal with. So we put all the cleaning power in small, convenient, dissolvable pacs. Each is pre-measured to make laundry down-right fool-proof. Perfect for moms doing laundry with one hand (while holding that other bundle of joy), dorm-dwellers, and anyone else who can’t be bothered measuring, pouring and weightlifting the big-bottle brands.

Smaller footprint. Bigger strides.
Dropps® laundry detergent is greener for the planet, inside and out. Inside, the formula is HE-compatible, biodegradable, phosphate-free, chlorine-free and NPE-free. In fact, it’s been approved by the EPA’s Design for the Environment program which recognizes formulas with safer chemistry. Outside, the innovative, dissolvable pac (and convenient, light-weight, stand-up pouch) is waaayyyy more energy efficient than the traditional plastic jug. In fact, it takes 292 stacked stand-up pouches to reach the height of one laundry jug. And, the perfectly dosed pacs mean no leftovers and no waste.

The Dropps formula:
Phosphate-free
NPE-free
Enzyme-free
Chlorine-free
Biodegradable
Perfect for sensitive skin
Safe for septic tanks
Contains NO optical brighteners
Fabric softener not required

Now’s your chance to win:

Dropps® will provide a 1-month supply (42-loads) of Dropps® laundry detergent pacs. The winner can pick which variety of Dropps® they prefer for their prize.

Required: Visit Dropps® and tell me which variety you’d like to win.

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Lenovo Laptop Giveaway at Dear Crissy

Have you ever found a giveaway that’s so fantastic you don’t want anyone else to know about it or to enter?

I found one of those giveaways, but I’m blabbin’ about it now!

Yah, well, see, there’s this giveaway at Dear Crissy. You may have heard of this super blogger? Even though I want to win, one of the entries is to do a post about it. And for posting about the giveaway, I’m earning 10 extra entries. Gotta love that!

Guess for me to get those extra entries I have to tell you. So, you know you wanna do it. You want to go there and enter to win. It’s ok. I don’t mind. If you do win, come back and tell me so I can be good and jealous! *grin*

I entered Crissy’s Can’t Wait til Christmas Lenovo Laptop Giveaway and hope to win a $799.00 IdeaPad!

She’s giving away a Lenovo 14″ U460 laptop!

5 random entrants will win a USB bracelet!

Good luck to everyone who enters!

Squiggle Doodle Pad Giveaway

Do you have kids who love using their imagination? Maybe you have a child like mine, Buddy, who doesn’t think he’s very good at any kind of art. That’s when RandomLine Squiggle Doodle Pads come in handy.

The Squiggle Doodle Pad gives kids a starting point for a drawing. It sparks their imagination and challenges them.

My boys received the SQUIGGLE^® Sports and my oldest was pretty apprehensive. He’s not secure in his artistic ability. I encouraged him to give it a try and told him to start off by doing whatever sport he wanted. He didn’t have to spin the wheel.

That gave him the freedom to at least give it a try. I was so proud of him. He drew a football player. I hope this will spur him on to keep trying his hand and drawing.

Here’s the finished product:Then I thought, maybe my 7yo would like to give it a try. hahaha Do you ever give your kid, or someone else an opportunity and they go at it so eagerly it surprises you? That’s how it was with Doodle.

Instead of agonizing over how he was going to draw and how it was going to look, he spun the wheel, landed on “hockey” and went to town.The only problem, he put “NFL” on the hockey stick instead of “NHL”. I’m not gonna tell him, you can.

We will definitely be taking this with us when we head to VA this Christmas. It’s going to be a great way to get the boys imagination moving during the long drive.

I also like that the marker holder is attached to the case so they can’t be left behind. unless my boys forget to put them back into it.

Required: Visit RandomLine and tell me another activity you think your family would enjoy.

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