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Symptoms for lead:

• Muscles and joints
  • Paralysis
  • Muscle aches
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Joint pain
• Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and throat
  • Jaundice (eyes appear yellow)
  • Vision problems
  • Metallic taste
• Skin
  • Yellow skin
  • Pale skin
• Gastrointestinal
  • Loss of appetite
  • Weight loss
  • Constipation
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal pain
  • Excessive thirst
• Heart and blood
  • Low blood pressure
  • High blood pressure
  • Convulsions
  • Collapse
• Nervous system
  • Easily excitable
  • Coma
  • Hallucinations
  • Lack of desire to do anything
  • Irritability
  • Headache
  • Sleeping difficulty
  • Confusion
  • Tremor
  • Twitching
  • Uncoordinated movements
• Bladder and kidneys
  • Kidney damage

Symptoms for tin and zinc chloride:

• Bladder and kidneys
  • Decreased urine output
  • No urine output
• Skin
  • Yellow skin
• Gastrointestinal
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
• Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and throat
  • Jaundice (eyes appear yellow)
  • Burns in mouth and throat

Symptoms for ethylene glycol:

• Kidney failure
• Disturbance in the acid balance of the blood (can lead to multi-organ failure)

Symptoms for cadmium:

• Itai itai disease (softening of the bones and kidney failure)
• Reduced brain function or intelligence
• Reduced lung function
• Kidney damage

Symptoms for bismuth:

• Gingivitis
• Metalic taste
• Kidney damage
• Diarrhea
• Skin irritation
• Eye irritation

Symptoms for silver:

• Argyria (greyish-black staining of the skin and mucus membranes)
• Argyrosis (deposition of silver in the eyes)

Symptoms for antimony:

• Headache
• Stomach problems
• Dizziness
• Irritation of mucus membranes
• Eczema
• Chemical burns
• Depression

Symptoms for cooper:

• Fever
• Persons with Wilsons disease are especially at risk for poisoning

Review Date: 05/17/2006
Reviewed By: Janeen R. Azare, PhD, MSPH, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.