Abstract

STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NEUROTOXIC AND ITS DISOR-DER CAUSED BY ORGANOPHOSPHORUS POISONING AMONG THE COMMUNITY PEOPLE IN AND AROUND B.G. NAGAR

Satish Kumar B. P., Mariya Shaju* and Chinmayi G.

ABSTRACT

Background: Organophosphorus (OP) compounds have been used as pesticides and also as chemical warfare nerve agents. However, OP compounds are not ideal pesticides because of the lack of target vector selectivity, and severe toxicity and even death in human and domestic animals1. Hence the present study aims to know about the neurotoxic and its disorder caused by OP poisoning among the community people. Objective: To Study knowledge about neurotoxic and its disorder caused by organophosphorus poisoning among the community people in and around BG Nagar. Methods: A prospective and community based educational study was conducted using self-prepared question-naires to assess the knowledge and attitude of the people in and around B.G Nagar and its villages. After considering the inclusion and exclu sion criteria, the people will be enrolled in the study. The data was entered in Microsoft excel by using suitable de-scriptive statistics like percentage, cumulative percentage. SPSS software was used to con-duct the statistical analysis. Results: Chi Square analysis displayed a majority of the 40-50 years age group people have more than 10 years of experience in agricultural worker (χ2=101.9; P=0.001) and most of the workers are permanent pesticide applicator (χ2=16.64; P=0.034) than that of other age group. Similarly majority of 30-39 years age groups (36.6%) have a knowledge of checking the expiry date (χ2=13.7; P=0.008) and use all modes of appli-cation of OP pesticides (χ2=55.74; P=0.006) when compared to that of other age group. It was observed that around 54.5% of 30-39 years age group peoples had an episode of OP poison-ing within the year (χ2=14.08; P=0.007) and among them 36.3% of people experience im-paired blurry vision or stinking eye while using OP pesticides (χ2=18.02; P=0.021) and more than 37.5% them experienced excessive secretion of body fluids (χ2=60.56; P=0.019). A ma-jority of the 40-50 years age group (29.4%) people experienced dermal changes after exposed to OP pesticides (χ2=51.7; P=0.015). All the subjects aged 50-59 experienced frequent vomit-ing, headache and diarrhea when compared with the subjects of other age groups (χ2=74.43; P=0.001). Conclusion: OP poisoning is a medical emergency that needs rapid diagnosis and treatment. Early recognition, careful monitoring, and appropriate management will decrease the complication and the mortality rate.

Keywords: OP poisoning.