[Neurovegetative reactivity among female workers systematically locally exposed to cold and overexertion]

Workers from different occupations associated with cooling of the upper extremities are exposed to chronic local cold effect in their daily work. The objects of the present study were 45 females, engaged in packing of cooled fruits and vegetables, stored in freezing chambers. The following methods were used aiming at the studies on the neurovegetative reactivity and the task proceeding from it in objectivization of the neurovegetative disturbances of the upper extremities: directed neurologic and autonomic anamnesis, routine neurological state, clinical-functional autonomic tests and methods. Anamnestically, complaints were established in 97.78 per cent from all the examined, the majority of them objectivizing the neurovegetative angiodystonic disturbances of the upper extremities with a difference, statistically significant, versus the control group (p less than 0.05.0%). Those alterations could be interpreted in connection with the factors of the working environment - chronic local cold effect and overstrain of the upper extremities.