Some laboratory blood indicators in tractor drivers exposed to pesticides

Abstract

Pesticides represent group of extremely different compounds or mixed compounds. They are produced in the form of powder for direct application, powder for suspension, concentrated suspension, concentration of emulsion, and in other forms as well. Influence of pesticides to exposed workers mainly depends on technology of pesticide application use. All poisons, just like pesticides that come in organism in some way and reach the location of their metabolism, accumulation in the body or extraction must get there through blood. Pesticides influence stem cells in bone marrow, then maturation process of blood elements and can damage mature blood cells in blood circulation. The sample encompassed 142 tractor drivers employed in state agricultural unions who were exposed to pesticides during their work. Concerning annual and daily exposure to pesticides in examined persons is determined that daily extent ranged from 3 to 12 hours and annual from 5 to 125 days, 60.93 in average. In the paper are analyzed following blood count parameters: erythrocytes, hemoglobin, leucocytes and thrombocytes The aim of the paper is to investigate whether pesticides influence changed blood count of tractor drivers exposed to pesticides during their work. Analysis of obtained results indicates that exposure to pesticides, like in examined group of workers, has not influenced damage in any of investigated blood count parameter.

Keywords

• blood
• blood elements
• pesticides
• tractor drivers