A STUDY OF DYNAMIC LUNG FUNCTIONS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN WESTERN ODISHA

Rajiv Kumar Nanda; Sanjeev Satpathy

Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

A STUDY OF DYNAMIC LUNG FUNCTIONS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN WESTERN ODISHA

Rajiv Kumar Nanda, Sanjeev Satpathy

Abstract :

Burla is a small town in Western Odisha in the district of Sambalpur. It has large number of sporadic cases of onchial asthma, mostly in younger age groups. The following study was done to find out the reason for such occurrence here. PFT has been used as an important diagnostic tool to find out various pulmonary conditions. 72 boys from Government High School, Burla were taken and PFT done on them by Spirometer to detect the various dynamic lung functions like Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second (FEV1), Vital capacities(VC), Peak Expiratory Flow Rate(PEFR) and Maximum Voluntary Ventilation(MVV). All the parameters studied gave lower values in comparison to the studies done on children of same age groups on other parts of the country and also Western countries. Children in this area have some weakness in ventilatory efficiencies which can be attributed to inadequate nutrition and environmental factors.