<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Hydrogen sulphide, a highly toxic gas, can be used in crenotherapy to balance all metabolic processes (minerals, fats and proteins). The main aims of this study were to correlate the weather characteristics with the atmospheric H2S level and to evaluate the antidote activity of B12 Vitamin in the case of prolonged exposure to this compound. 46 volunteers, people from the medical staff of an important Romanian thermal water spring spa, with professional exposure at H2S, were enrolled in this study; numerical data about their blood pressure, atmospheric H2S concentration and about the weather conditions were collected every month for one year. The results indicate an improvement in the blood pressure of volunteers treated with Vitamin B12; no significant correlation between the concentration of total urinary sulphur and the concentration of atmospheric H2S level was found.</abstract>

Hydrogen sulphide, a highly toxic gas, can be used in crenotherapy to balance all metabolic processes (minerals, fats and proteins). The main aims of this study were to correlate the weather characteristics with the atmospheric H2S level and to evaluate the antidote activity of B12 Vitamin in the case of prolonged exposure to this compound. 46 volunteers, people from the medical staff of an important Romanian thermal water spring spa, with professional exposure at H2S, were enrolled in this study; numerical data about their blood pressure, atmospheric H2S concentration and about the weather conditions were collected every month for one year. The results indicate an improvement in the blood pressure of volunteers treated with Vitamin B12; no significant correlation between the concentration of total urinary sulphur and the concentration of atmospheric H2S level was found.

Correlations between weather parameters, atmospheric hydrogen sulphide level and vitamin B12 administration to H2S exposed workers

5th Department (Internal Medicine I), Faculty of Medicine

“Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

1st Department (Analytical Chemistry), Faculty of Pharmacy

Romanian Journal of Occupational Medicine

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Correlations between weather parameters, atmospheric hydrogen sulphide level and vitamin B12 administration to HS exposed workers

Hydrogen sulphide, a highly toxic gas, can be used in crenotherapy to balance all metabolic processes (minerals, fats and proteins). The main aims of this...

Correlations between weather parameters, atmospheric hydrogen sulphide level and vitamin B12 administration to H₂S exposed workers

Published Online: Aug 24, 2019

Page range: 6 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjom-2019-0001

Keywords
antidote, cobalamin, detoxification, thermal spring waters, workers

© 2019 Livia-Cristina Borcan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Correlations between weather parameters, atmospheric hydrogen sulphide level and vitamin B12 administration to H2S exposed workers

Published Online: Aug 24, 2019

Page range: 6 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjom-2019-0001

Keywordsantidote, cobalamin, detoxification, thermal spring waters, workers

© 2019 Livia-Cristina Borcan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Correlations between weather parameters, atmospheric hydrogen sulphide level and vitamin B12 administration to H₂S exposed workers

Keywords
antidote, cobalamin, detoxification, thermal spring waters, workers