Radionuclides Affection | Radionuclides Treatment

Assessment of Antioxidative and Phagocytic Status of Organism During Detoxification of Persons Contaminated with Radionuclides in Territories of Briansk Oblast

G. I. Sazhenin, Ph.D.
E. M. Parshkov, MD
Medical Radiological Research Center
Obninsk, Russia

The functional activity of blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes and integral antioxidative activity of plasma were measured using ultra-weak light fluxes emitted by these biosystems during metabolism chemoluminescence). Comparisons of these cellular behaviors were obtained by testing performed at the beginning, the middle, and upon conclusion of treatment.

For the majority of patients treated with the detoxification method developed by Hubbard (28 males aged from 20 to 40), it was established that the initial levels of antioxidative activity (AOA) and functional activity of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PML), the total amount of blood leukocytes, and the percentage of PML among them were within the limits of normal physiological standards. For patients with initially deviated levels of the above parameters, detoxification normalized these parameters by the end of the course of treatment.

The most notable peculiarity of the detoxification programme was that 25% of the patients, who lived in the zone of nuclear tests and large industrial centers, had the same clinical showings as the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. This is evidence of the difficult ecological situation in the industrial centers of Kazakhstan.

All of the patients completed the programme successfully. IQ increased by 10 units on average, with the patients reporting a sense of cheerfulness, lightness and renewed energy.