The application of the triboluminescence method for the investigation of air condensates, exhaled by children, affected by a com plex of ecological factors after Chernobyl catastrophe

Abstract

The method of triboluminescence for an integral estimation of the functional condition of the children's respiratory system affected by a complex of ecological factors after Chernobyl katastrophe was applied. The non-respiratory function of the lungs was investigated by analysing the air condensates exhaled by 36 children at the age of 7—15 years. It was found that the kinetic parameters of triboluminescence of the condensates exhaled by the children, living in ecologically unequal areas may be different. The changes of these parameters may be caused by the activisation of the free oxygen radicals of the condensate components due to the radiation factors discovered in the zones exposed to the irradiation after Chernobyl katastrophe.