[The results of a study of chemical-induced disease in children in Chernovtsy].

A clinical study of children inhabiting Chernovtsy and Chernovtsy Province, examination of the qualitative composition of inorganic admixtures in the hair and their microscopy indicates that the revealed symptom complex allowed to diagnose mild forms of chemical disease in children with focal alopecia. The criteria were: mucosal lesions (conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, glossitis, cheilitis); alopecia; hematological syndrome: eosinophilia, lymphocytosis, relative neutropenia; neuro-psychic disorders; cutaneotrophic disorders; presence of black inclusions in longitudinal and transverse light microscopy. Association of focal alopecia with the above symptoms even in absence of changes of the qualitative composition of inorganic microadmixtures allows to think about the chemical etiology of the diseases apparently caused by compounds of different chemical substances with inclusion of thallium.