Monitoring of Changes in the Premorbid Indicators of Children's Health under the Influence of Low Lead Concentrations

For the industrially developed territories, the problem of anthropogenic pollution of the environment is not just relevant, but also exacerbates on a qualitatively new level in connection with a significant deterioration of almost all indicators of population health, especially of the children’s health. Among the large variety of factors that affect people, the leading place belongs to the chemicals. Lead (Pb) is the most global and potentially dangerous toxicant among them. The lead stress of the environment proved the significant deterioration of children’s health. Preschool children who live in the environmentally unfavorable conditions constitute a risk group for the breakdown of the adaptation of homeostatic mechanisms. Namely the lead, even in small doses, has its unfavorable effect on the health of children, causing disorders of mental, physical and psycho-physiological development