Study the effect of chlorine gas in some blood criteria among the workers in the water purification plants in Babylon governorate

Abstract

  This study goal is to mark the impact of chlorine gas in some physiological and biochemical criteria among the workers in the water purification plants in the Babylon city. The study was conducted in the general education Hilla hospital as were examined blood samples from the workers in water purification plants and divided them for four groups depending on the periods of works in these plants into (1-5);(6-10); (11-15) and (16-20) years in comparison with the control group. The results of this study revealed an elevation significantly ( p<0.05) in the numbers of total white blood cells as well as in the concentration of urea and creatinine in the  workers for the various periods of work in matching with the group of control. The above criteria become more height with the increasing duration of exposure to chlorine.