title: [A wine pitcher, cause of lead poisoning].
abstract: A 35-year-old male nurse hospitalized for recurrent episodes of intolerable abdominal pain was found to have non-hemolytic anemia and saturnism with blood lead level reaching 500 micrograms/l. Search for the source of the lead led to the discovery of an earthenware jug purchased in a Corsica craftsware shop. This jug had been used to hold the patient's daily consumption of wine (estimated at one-half to three-quarters liters per day) in the refrigerator. On the basis of lead release measurements using the method described in the EEC directive 84/500 (maximum tolerated limit for crockery = 4 mg lead/litter contents), it was found that the jug released 216 mg/l and estimated that the patient had ingested 0.8 to 1 mg of soluble lead daily for the past 8 years. The patient was successfully treated with chelator agents. This case of lead poisoning caused by a single earthenware wine jug confirms the need for rigourous governmental directives to control the production and distribution of varnished earthenware.
authors.affiliation: Centre Anti-Poisons, Hôpital Salvator, Marseille.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jouglard
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Haro
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arditti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cottin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D002516:Ceramics; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004492:Edetic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000652:urine; D008297:Male; D014920:Wine
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D007854:Lead; D004492:Edetic Acid
vernacular_title: Un pichet à vin à l'origine d'un cas de saturnisme.