POTENTIAL DANGERS IN TRADITIONAL REMEDIES.

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The Washington State Health Department has issued warnings about certain folk remedies after two children treated with medicines from Mexico were diagnosed with lead poisoning. A 2-year-old was diagnosed with extremely high levels of lead (the highest the state has recorded since starting a registry of lead levels in children in 1993) after being given greta or remedio casero, a Mexican folk remedy for intestinal problems. State tests found samples of the yellow powder that are nearly 80 percent lead. Another...

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