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[quote=Anonymous]Buy a lead dust sample kit or two (about $20 each + $25 lab fee)from Home Depot/Lowes/any hardware store.  Follow the directions to measure an area (12"x12"), run the sampling cloth over the area, and mail the cloth into the lab.  The lab will tell you how many parts of lead per million your house dust has.  Every home has some level of lead, so don't be freaked out by 5 parts per million or something like that.  You can find acceptable levels of lead dust online.

If you have a significant lead dust, then start talking to your landlord and try to figure out where it's coming from and get a full lead assessment.

Disturbing lead paint is likely to cause problems, especially if it's not done very carefully with obsessive clean-up.

As an adult, as long as you wash your hands before you eat, don't touch the floor and then stick your hands in your mouth, and don't stick toys from the floor in your mouth, you're not going to ingest much household dust.  6 months-2 years are the times when kids are most in danger of lead poisoning because they're mobile and stick their hands and toys in their mouths.[/quote]

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