Problems of nitrate water pollution in poltava region

Wiad Lek. 2018;71(4):839-842.

Abstract

Objective: Introduction: The topicality is determined bypriority and importance of researches that have preventive referral directed on provision of harmonious growth and early childhood development, children's resistance to the infection's effects and other unfavorable external factors. There are problems about the role of permanent nitrate load in the formation of children health issues, especially children who live in the area with high nitrate levels in drinking well water. The aim is to evaluate the physical development of children who live in nitrate-contaminated areas.

Patients and methods: Materials and methods: Object of study - children living in nitrate-polluted locality. Subject of study - violation of physical development and morbidity of children in interrelation of factors that determined. Methods - clinical, biochemical, instrumental, sanitary-hygienic, statistical.

Results: Results: When studying the content of methemoglobin among adult population in village areas, where well water with a high concentration of nitrates is consumed and in the city where centralized water supply is used, it was observed that rural people have a higher level of methemoglobin. Parents who lived in nitrates-polluted territories have a chronic pathology formed in childhood that affects the morbidity of their children, which affects the health of the nation.

Conclusion: Conclusions: centralized water supply was conducted many locations over the years, but parents who lived in nitrates-polluted territories have a chronic pathology formed in childhood that affects the morbidity of their children.

Keywords: children; management; nitrates in food and water; prophylaxis.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Methemoglobinemia / etiology
  • Nitrates / adverse effects
  • Nitrates / analysis*
  • Rural Population / statistics & numerical data*
  • Ukraine
  • Water Pollution / adverse effects
  • Water Pollution / analysis*
  • Water Pollution, Chemical / analysis*
  • Water Supply

Substances

  • Nitrates