How do patients with heavy metal toxicity present?
Here is a quick table:
Lead: Abdominal pain, irritability, fatigue, anemia, (confusion, seizure, encephalopathy at very high levels)
Cadmium: Interstitial Nephritis
Arsenic:
Acute: Nausea, vomiting, severe watery diarrhea.
Chronic: Distal polyneuropathy
Mercury:
Acute: Chest pain, cough, dyspnea
Chronic: Mild neuropsychiatric symptoms with predominant tremor
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